LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.94.
- Length
- 12.3h
- Value
- $1.63/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS or ATI Radeon X1950 Pro or better, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes features an original story crossing the entire Marvel Universe. Players take control of Iron Man, Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine and many more Marvel characters as they unite to stop Loki and a host of other Marvel villains from assembling a super-weapon capable of destroying the world.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in October 2024. 95 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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. Past sales have already crossed the $15.94 BANGER line 92 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, LEGO® MARVEL's Avengers ($19.99, scores 78) and LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham ($19.99, scores 64), are both worse buys on this math.
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 18 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
25 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,522 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 12.3 hours. Doing everything runs 40, 3.2 times as long.
At 12.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
79% start to 7% 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
298 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
A gem from my childhood The game is as beautiful as it was 13 years ago when I used to play it with my brother. I'd say it's the best LEGO game out there. Storyline, hero roster, humor, and exploration are all done with care and attention to detail. The levels are unique and interesting to play, heroes change each time so it doesn't get boring, and the open world offers a lot of things to explore. Completing it 100%...
one of the best games of all time i remember playing it with my lil brother when i was 8 yeas old peak games i rec to play it it took me 27 hours to 100% the game worth playing love love
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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LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes scores 81/100 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/249130/lego-marvel-super-heroesThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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