Thief II: The Metal Age
BANGER · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 20.3h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The ultimate thief is back! Tread softly as you make your way through 15 new complex, non-linear levels full of loot to steal and guards to outsmart. Improved enemy AI, new gadgets and a riveting story will draw you into the world of Thief II: The Metal Age, a place of powerful new technologies, fanatical religions and corruption.
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.97. 101 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 86 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dishonored ($9.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Thief Gold (1999) ($6.99, scores 67).
The math says it holds its tier up to $20.98, and you are being asked for $6.99.
1 of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 343 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
12 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I'm like halfway through but man, this ♥♥♥♥ hits way harder than I expected in 2026. I'm a huge stealth fan, Dishonored is probably my all time favourite game if I had to pick one. I first played Thief Gold a few years ago and never finished (not because I wasn't enjoying it, something else must have come out idk) and since then I've had this recurring urge to go back. Over the last year or so I've played a few...
So I have to say I'm one of those who thinks this is actually inferior to Dark Project, why? That horrendous final mission, and just how the last 3 missions in general are just pretty annoying. This game starts off so incredible and just vastly declines towards the end, it hurt the game more than I expected for me. Overall though this game is still great.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Thief II: The Metal Age scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/211740/thief-ii-the-metal-ageThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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