Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
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The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 25.1h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 57% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 2GB of Video Memory & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD7870, 50 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
What drives the score
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The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 92 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Mafia II: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 31) and Mafia: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 54) both outscore it.
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 4,579 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 25.1 hours. Doing everything runs 68, 2.7 times as long.
It came out 6 years ago and 869 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
69% start to 2% 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
869 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
The biggest problem is repetetive missions which are going through whole campaign but story and soundtrack are pretty much enjoyable otherwise after implementing useless 2k launcher it messed up with saving progress after closing the game so if you going for completion it requires to download old version of the game
I was surprised by how different this game is from Mafia II, but in a good way. It was refreshing to see a non-linear quest system. There are bugs, but most of the time they are not game breaking. The 2K launcher has been removed. The open world is really nice, but the absence of fast travel gets tiring after some time. I would at least expect to be able to use taxis. The story and storytelling were really good. I...
played in 2022 and always like it even though it's repetitive, overhated game. one of the best thing about mafia 3 was its documentary style storytelling.
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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Mafia III: Definitive Edition scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/360430/mafia-iii-definitive-editionThe 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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