Mad Max
Worth it · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 20.1h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 72 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fallout: New Vegas ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Need for Speed™ Most Wanted ($4.99, scores 51).
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 2,380 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
20.1 hours to finish it, 62 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
It came out 11 years ago and 563 were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
87% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
563 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 really hated the first 30 minutes of this game. It felt slow, bland, and I genuinely thought I had wasted my money. Then I got my own rig. And suddenly I understood everything. Mad Max basically became WB's version of Deus Ex for me. Remove the cyberpunk, replace it with a dying wasteland, add gasoline, spikes, V8 engines and people screaming while hanging off your car. After that opening, I loved pretty much...
It's a beat 'em up with good cars, does the franchise justice to boot - love this game, highly recommend, 9/10 easy for what it is worth. Can probably be beaten in 35 hours, but getting lost in the sauce busting up gangs and doing death races is easy to do.
"Your fear is the hardest one to overcome, for you fear only yourself. Let our work commence."- Griffa You know, for a game about cars and suiting the car up and making the vehicle stronger, I think the thing I like most about this game is watching Max punch people in a way that just looks like he's throwing a weapon at somebody, blind rage and fury just pummeling into people like the town drunk who's had enough of...
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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Mad Max scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/234140/mad-maxThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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