Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2007

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
91% of 1,256,452
Critics
92 players 1 lower
Genre rank
Top 3% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Monetization

Time and effort

Typical playtime
287.3h
To 100%
2347h 8.2x the story
Finish
17% reach the ending
Achievements
520

Players and genre

Online
86,226 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

50% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Dirty Bomb® (free, scores 58) and Apex Legends™ (free, scores 20), are both worse buys on this math.

It is still busy. 86.2K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 04:45 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.

More about Team Fortress 2

Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,624 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.

HowLongToBeat players log 287.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 2347, 8.2 times as much.

1,256,452 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Holding it back
MonetizationCosmetic, Loot box, Player trading, Unlock
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesCosmetic, Loot box, Player trading, UnlockPCGamingWiki

What players say

Don't play Team Fortress 2. Valve don't care anymore. Its been 3000+ days since the last major update. The game has botting returning slowly. All we get is war paints, Unusual Effects, New Hats and MORE MAP BLOAT to slowly kill Casual's already flawed systems. Valve stopped caring about all their games in 2017 besides Deadlock. The anti cheat hasn't worked ever, the community is filled with either really nice people...
SillyHasNoWillyNot recommendedafter 4156h49 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Team Fortress 2 does not work anymore. It may look fun and it is fun for the first few moments, but it will drain your life away. You cannot deny this. The "neato" matchmaking system in this game is so broken that you will 99% of the time have a match that is either: - Thousand-hours/tryhards on one team and F2P/AFK item farmers on the others, and you end up getting absolutely decimated - The same as the last one...
guywithglassesNot recommendedafter 397h14 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I just started playing and I was called the N word during my first match. 10/10.
CharmBreaker96Recommendedafter 1.2h76 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Team Fortress 2 scores 75/100 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/440/team-fortress-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-1
Critics92
Players91
Metacritic critics · 1,256,452 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
GenreMultiplayer
Released2007
Players75.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements520