Black Mesa
Worth it · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.31/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 145,502
- Critics
- 84 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.3h
- To 100%
- 29h 1.9x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 May 2025
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 522 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 5% 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 72 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $18.80, a level the record has reached 72 times.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, Half-Life: Source ($9.99, scores 25) and BioShock™ Remastered ($19.99, scores 56) both come in lower.
More about Black Mesa
The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 6,242 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
145,502 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Gordon dosent need hear all this, he wants you to play the game intead of looking at the reviews.. like a highly trained professional.
2 more reviews
Great fun replaying HL1 with better graphics. Still a great story after all these years!
excellent remake of one of the greatest and most impactful shooters of all time, his Majesty - Half Life -
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Relive Half-Life.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 2 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Black Mesa scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/362890/black-mesaReviews 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.