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 $14.10. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.27/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 97,844
- Critics
- 84 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Other
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.10 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.7h
- To 100%
- 32.9h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 74
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 679 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 19% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 46 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 81 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 ($1.99, scores 65) both come in lower.
More about Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
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; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 2,463 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.
Buy now or wait
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
Highly recommended and thoroughly fun game, too bad the DLCs are hit-and-miss I came into this game having played its successor, Shadow of War first, so I had some good expectations coming into this. While it isn't as great as Shadow of War , the majority of the gameplay is familiar territory and is quite fun. It won't be much of a spoiler to set the scene, which the game does a little poorly, so I'll explain. I...
2 more reviews
Middle-Earth : Shadow Of Mordor is one of the best experience you can have as a gamer. I enjoyed every minute of playing this game, I did every achievement including all of the DLCs and I want to share my experience for people who have not played this masterpiece yet. I will talk about some main points that makes Shadow of Mordor this charming and hope this review will help convince you to be next Gravewalker...
managed to get lucky and found this on sale with both games and all dlcs, happy to say this was worth the purchase and met all of my expectations cause i been wanting to play this for a long time now ever since it kept popping up on my tiktok fyp saying this is one of the best games for mid-low end devices. VERY MUCH RECOMMEND TO BUY THIS
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850, 44 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/241930/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordorReviews 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 3, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.