MDK
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$5.80Fair
- Length
- 4.2h 7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 366 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.80 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $15.99 (20% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
ON A GOOD DAY, ONLY 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE. As vast alien mining cities suck the power and minerals from every major metropolis on Earth simultaneously, time is of the essence as millions of civilians are expiring by the second.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, DirectX, 645 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 69 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre. On the same math Vanquish ($19.99, scores 58) and STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™ ($9.99, scores 61) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about MDK
Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
MDK stands as one of those rare games that immediately establishes its own identity and refuses to blend into the crowd. Released during an era when developers were still discovering what 3D gaming could become, it arrived with ideas that felt wildly imaginative and sometimes completely unconventional. Instead of following a predictable action formula, the game introduces players to a bizarre science-fiction world...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Leave Cruelty Squad to zoomers and liminal space gooners. This is THE Ratatouille-tier savant studio that specializes in delivering crazy experiences, and MDK is no exception. Rough around the edges and needs couple dozens of rain dances with a discarded AGP GPU tambourine to get it to work (ran ok on my W10 Intel/GTX machine with "fullscreen optimizations" disabled and on the 3DFX/Glide option) Play this, then play...
The game hasn't aged well. It needs a remaster or a remake. The early 3D textures and models, as well as the mouse controls, make it difficult to enjoy.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
MDK scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/38450/mdkReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.