Mafia II (Classic)

Mafia II (Classic)

Worth it · Shooter · 2011

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.58. Price from Oct 21.

Cost per hour▼
$2.48/hr
ReviewsS
94% of 59,052
Critics
77 players 17 higher
Genre rank
Top 14% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

It needs 58% off ($12.58) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.58 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
12.1h
To 100%
32.8h 2.7x the story
Achievements
67

Price and sales

Sales
45 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$5.99 June 2015
Sale every
55d last October 2026
Other stores

Players and genre

Online
86 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
94% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

89% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was June 2015. It has been discounted 45 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mafia ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Mafia: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 54).

More about Mafia II (Classic)

The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.

8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 2,336 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

12.1 hours to finish it, 33 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.

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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds8 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: nVidia GeForce 8600 / ATI HD2600 Pro or better, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Mafia II (Classic) scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/50130/mafia-ii-classic
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Reviews 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 4, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+17
Critics77
Players94
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 59,052 Steam player reviews

Details

Developer2K Czech
Publisher2K
GenreShooter
Released2011
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements67