Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews▼
- 58% of 65,088
- Genre rank
- Top 89% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25h
- To 100%
- 68.8h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 85
Price and sales
- Sales
- 93 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 30d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,810 now
- Recent reviews
- 65% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 10% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
69% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
93 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Mafia II: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 32) outscores it, and so does Mafia: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 54). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Mafia III: Definitive Edition
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 4,610 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 25 hours. Doing everything runs 69, 2.8 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
A decade later, it is no longer locked at 30 fps, they did it ladies and gentlemen, they finally did it. We can all finally enjoy it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Going back to Mafia III now, years after its release, really made me look at the game differently. When it first came out, I completely understood the criticism. It was pretty rough technically, with bugs, performance issues and plenty of problems that made the experience frustrating. The repetitive missions didn't help either, especially when you were constantly doing the same things to take over another racket...
Even after 10 years, game is missing a lot of QOL features. Outside of that, story is ok, but so much reptitive and boring content has to be done to get to the story beats, that it's very easy to put the game down completely half way through. First time I've finished the game from start to finish since it came out. Can't really say it was worth it, won't be playing the DLC, and can only recommend it if it's on a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mafia III: Definitive Edition scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/360430/mafia-iii-definitive-editionReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.