Alpha Protocol™
Fair · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.9h 26.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 5,112 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4 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
Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 48 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Assassin's Creed® Odyssey ($59.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats INSOMNIA: The Ark ($29.99, scores 5).
More about Alpha Protocol™
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 8 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
5 of the 414 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 511 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.9 hours; clearing it takes 26, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
What players say
Loved the hell out of this game as a kid. The attention to detail with how the dialogue changes based on the order that you do missions is cool. Stealth and gunplay are passable, but the roleplay aspect is what this game is all about. On one hand, very cool anti-corporatist messaging warning of the dangers of the military industrial complex. On the other hand, very "of it's time": every woman can be sexually...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Michael is soooo cute, I liked him a lot. Darcy too lol, too bad he dies. most of the discomfort for me could be skipped (like female romance for him or etc), although some things could be annoying or bothering, but was mostly okay. the gameplay is fun, the story was also good. although the ending felt a bit abrupt, I would've liked maybe to know what happened or changed about many things after that sunset scene...
Alpha Protocol is a special light rpg shooter, following a single rogue agent on his mission to the truth. The writing is pretty bad, but charming in it's badness. Unfortunately the gameplay is pretty bad. It's verty obvious that this was developed for console first and the PC version really isn't that great. I chose the wrong option frequently because the game gives you a very short time to click on the right one...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Alpha Protocol™ scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/34010/alpha-protocolReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.