Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.38/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 117,897
- Genre rank
- Top 11% RPG
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 21h
- To 100%
- 57h 2.7x the story
- Finish
- 9% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 72
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 June 2024
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,431 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 74 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, God of War ($49.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Darksiders III ($5.99, scores 47).
More about Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 2,378 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
21 hours to finish it, 57 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
117,897 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
One day, the nemesis system will be free from warner bros clutches, and i will still be sad because monolith wont be there to make use of it (This game is awesome btw, i played it a lot on xbox.)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Nemesis mechanic is fun, but the speeches can take too long sometimes. The movement can feel a bit buggy, but overall, it's a fun game.
This review is for all the completionists out there, who had to go through the hell of those last couple achievements and awful game modes.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD HD 7870, 2 GB / NVIDIA GTX 660, 2 GB, 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/356190/middle-earth-shadow-of-warReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.