LEGO® STAR WARS™: The Force Awakens
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 430 (1024 MB)/ Radeon HD 6850 (1024 MB), 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
The No. 1 LEGO® videogame franchise triumphantly returns with a fun-filled, humorous journey based on the blockbuster film. The game will also feature brand new story content from the Star Wars Universe that explores the time between Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in May 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 81 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™ ($19.99, scores 73) and LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga ($19.99, scores 84) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 8 of the 723 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 422 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
9.2 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
80% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
28 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
better than skywalker saga, but there's so many better older lego games you could try. I liked what it had to offer, but i think the main problem is that it's forgettable and has bugs with it's "collectible detector". The DLC really leans into evoking memories of other star wars movies because it knows you're coming from complete saga. (except that rathar hunting level, idk what they were thinking with that garbage)...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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LEGO® STAR WARS™: The Force Awakens scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/438640/lego-star-wars-the-force-awakensThe 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 Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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