Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
Worth it · Other · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.07.
- Length
- 15.7h
- Value
- $1.27/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850, 44 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 45 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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. It becomes a BANGER at $14.07, a level the record has reached 32 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ ($49.99, scores 59) and Styx: Shards of Darkness ($1.39, scores 55) both come in lower.
84 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 2,456 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.7 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 2.1 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
89% start to 3% 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
441 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
endless combat, a wold full of things to do, politics, and top it all it let me get into the world of lord of the rings, i can't ask for more
"All who stand in the way of the Bright Lord shall feel a wrath far worse than death." ⭐⭐⭐ ✅ For Steam Deck users: It runs well! What an absolute masterpiece. I genuinely regret not playing Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor sooner. I finally decided to give it a chance, and I ended up completely hooked. First of all, this game is BEAUTIFUL. Even years later, Mordor looks incredible. The environments, lighting...
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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Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ scores 79/100 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/241930/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordorThe 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 10, price as of Sep 22.
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