Mars: War Logs
Skip · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 3,063
- Critics
- 59 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9h
- To 100%
- 18.6h 2.1x the story
- Finish
- 11% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 96 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 May 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 67% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 58% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 96 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition ($59.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats BIOMUTANT ($39.99, scores 16).
More about Mars: War Logs
The press gave it 59; the people who bought it give it 75 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 487 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 272 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
9 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A game from Spiders in all its glory! Not a masterpiece, but really brings its fair share of good gaming moments. Feels a bit outdated now, but for an old-school gamer that's not a problem - these were the PRGs "back in my days" :) I've been pleasently surprised to see the Chapter 3 / ending being dependent on my choices!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Let's start with the obvious: most of the screens shown above are cutscenes and the two that aren't have a rather flattering camera position, zoom, and angle, as you will notice if you watch any Let's plays. Contrary to what these pictures suggest, you play in third person with the camera behind and above you. Personally, I felt the game is a bit too short for a RPG, skills are a bit rudimentary, dialogs not very...
-pretty short, can't complain getting this on sale when it's already low-priced. -quite a bit dated. It's built like a level of mass effect 2. The modelling and textures are pretty basic and maybe just a little warped by compression or something that isn't necessary anymore. Will play on a potato. -dialogue is pretty bad, like it wasn't originally english, and in the translation there are errors like improper use of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Mars: War Logs scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232750/mars-war-logsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.