Team Fortress 2
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 285.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Dirty Bomb® (free, scores 58) and Apex Legends™ (free, scores 19), are both worse buys on this math.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,622 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 285.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 2347, 8.2 times as much.
Still 43.8K concurrent players, 19 years in.
It is still busy. 43.8K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: cosmetic and loot box.
The drop-off
50% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
43.8K 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
I can understand if others thinks this is a good game, and it is in so many ways. But this is hands down the least user-friendly game I have ever played, and I have a sub 3 time in Getting Over It. TLDR: not getting updates for almost 9 years really ♥♥♥ with balancing There are four things in this game that just push me away: 1. Healing. I'm aware that I could sound like I've only ever played Overwatch and Marvel...
cant really get into it because 99% of the players i play against have been playing since launch so im screwed
I thought Team Fortress 2 was just another multiplayer shooter. I was wrong. The graphics are cartoony. The characters are completely ridiculous. The gameplay looks simple enough at first. But then you actually play it. And somehow, every match turns into a story. One game you're coordinating with your team and pulling off the perfect push. The next, you're getting repeatedly killed by a Spy named something...
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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Team Fortress 2 scores 75/100 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/440/team-fortress-2The 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 10.
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