Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.26/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 33,805
- Critics
- 74 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 32% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.6h
- To 100%
- 22.5h 3.0x the story
- Finish
- 32% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 August 2014
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 111 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 32% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 84 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. $7.04 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Its score puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ($59.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats LOST PLANET® 3 ($24.99, scores 10).
More about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 18 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,014 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.6 hours; clearing it takes 23, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 4 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
What players say
Pros High testosterone game without any of that weird modern audience crap. The jet-pack hammer levels are awesome. Cons The map levels are not special and look the same throughout the game. Some checkpoints are before load-out change areas, meaning if you die, you'll need to re-pick all of your load-out changes. Paid $10. I would not spend more than that for this game.
1 more review, not recommended
This is a review of only the main campaign on Normal difficulty because I did not enjoy the game enough to attempt to play other modes or replay the campaign on harder difficulties. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is a good game that occasionally pales on its own premise, especially for most of its final third. This is basically a horde shooter with occasional melee, and it's at its most fun when the protagonist...
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About the game
In Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine you are Captain Titus, a Space Marine of the Ultramarines chapter and a seasoned veteran of countless battles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55150/warhammer-40-000-space-marine-anniversary-editionReviews 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 Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.