Mafia II (Classic)
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.65.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $2.48/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 84% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: nVidia GeForce 8600 / ATI HD2600 Pro or better, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was June 2015. It has been discounted 44 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $12.65 BANGER line 41 times.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 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).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 84 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 2,312 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.
The drop-off
89% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
207 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
Vito Scaletta's journey through the snowy, snow-globe version of Empire Bay is an absolute masterclass in period-piece storytelling and atmosphere. While the open world doesn't offer a ton of side activities, cruising around listening to the incredible 1940s and 50s radio soundtrack while running mob errands never gets old. The gunplay is great, the character dynamics are fantastic, and the gritty, cinematic tone...
This game is unplayable on modern computers. Constant crashing, every 15 minutes.
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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Mafia II (Classic) scores 70/100 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/50130/mafia-ii-classicThe 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 11, price as of Sep 23.
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