Mafia
Worth it · Shooter · 2002
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 16.1h
- Value
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D Graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.94, set in May 2021. 70 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 5 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 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games closest to it, Mafia: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 54) and Mafia II: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 31) both come in lower.
5 of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,395 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
59 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
Game is older than me, but it's still good. A little scuffed, The controls are wack but those can be changed in the settings. Some bugs and lack of direction but overall the game was great.
Ok, I have so much to say about this game, negative and positive sides. Let's talk about bad things first. I understand that game is from 2002, and that it was sat in the 30s, but driving in this game, at the beginning it was so hard for me to understand driving, later I become a better at driving, so that means you have to take some time. It's challenging but ok, ok, next thing. Aiming, aiming is so so bad, I had...
I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word.
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 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40990/mafiaThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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