ELEX
Skip · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.09/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 19,646
- Critics
- 67 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 53% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 27.5h
- To 100%
- 85.1h 3.1x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 April 2022
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 86 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 40% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 3% 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
Across all 71 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gothic 1 Classic ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats ELEX II ($49.99, scores 32).
More about ELEX
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 24 percent of the 1,240 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 27.5 hours; clearing it takes 85, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
Great RPG. Open world. Decisions actually matter. Kinda nice when a game says that and delivers.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The map is huge, many different environments. I feel like the developers made the main focus of the game the dialogue and questing but exploring and combat can be fun as well. Not gonna like the game itself is very janky and hard to get into. Combat especially is janky. However if you can get into it, it's very fun. I've done over 200 quests so far and I have barely started the story. There's a lot to do. There is...
I rate this game (0) Zero. Worst piece of crap I ever played. Don't waste your time and money on this garbage game. There is no fun to be had playing it. Try something as simple as joining a faction. You will run quest after quest after quest after quest with no progress of any kind. And when I say no progress I mean NO Progress. You will just be told to run more quest. The game is a never ending list of fetch...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
ELEX scores 39/100 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/411300/elexReviews 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.