Wolfenstein 3D
BANGER · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Windows only.
World War II rages. The Nazis are planning to build an unstoppable, mutant army. On a mission to steal the secret plans, you were captured and imprisoned. Now, a lucky break gives you the chance to escape, but a maze of passages and trigger-happy Nazis stand in your way.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was February 2026. It has been discounted 71 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM + DOOM II ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Quake II ($9.99, scores 83).
10 of the 464 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 124 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 1,889 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
Players
10 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 feel like the world does owe a lot to John Romero and John Carmack with the incredible minds behind many games. With a small group of people and team they've managed to always optimize and sell products only with high quality as it was in their quota, especially considering how with the early technology they've boosted Super Mario 3's existence into bloom assisting Nintendo back in the day. So if you wanna praise...
9/10 truely a gaming classic only issue is you definitly need to swap out DOSBox for ec wolf also don't set the size of things to max otherwise you cant see the gui in-game without pressing tab then you can set your resolution to 1920x1080 or whatever your monitors native resolution is and the game still looks flawless no need for crt shaders unless you want them you do you
"Good in smaller bursts and abject cruelty later on, when playing on the hardest difficulty..." - Civvie 11 Wolf3D surprised me! It can be very atmospheric, with some tense moments and the music generally fits really well... There's just something about how it feels to mow down Nazis here. It's visceral and hard to let go of the trigger. Some episodes drag on, but each level is really short. Mazes are infuriating. I...
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Wolfenstein 3D scores 86/100 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/2270/wolfenstein-3dThe 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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