The Masterplan
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.7h 17.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 524 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1383 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 256 MB OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
22 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 198 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine ($14.99, scores 83) and Party Hard ($9.99, scores 72) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Masterplan
8.7 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
21% start to 1% 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
What players say
Incredibly buggy game. The main problem is how often the game crashes mid-mission. Unfortunately, progress cannot be saved during the mission so when the game ultimately crashes you just lose all of your progress. I would've thought that in the nine years since this game was released the developers would've fixed this issue but no such luck. If they haven't gotten around to it by now I can only assume they have no...
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Cite this score
The Masterplan scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313080/the-masterplanReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.