Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $7.01, only fair at $39.99.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $5.26/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine you are Captain Titus, a Space Marine of the Ultramarines chapter and a seasoned veteran of countless battles.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in August 2014. It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. $7.01 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Value puts it in the top 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 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 8).
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 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,009 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.
The drop-off
81% start to 32% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
95 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
Absolute blast of a campaign. This is the "purest" action game with great melee and shooting combat, and amazing graphics that hold up till today. I became a Warhammer fan with this game and am now diving into the books. Really great world and lore. The multiplayer is surprisingly active too.
pog funny big guy walk around shoot stuff game. Beat it back when it came out and now again many years later. Its simple but its fun. A throwback. Good desolate atmosphere. The skybox/backdrops really feel massive. Lots of MEN being MASCULINE but there is one woman in the game though so if you hate women maybe avoid okay
You understand how good was this game after playing SM 2. Despite its age and a somewhat basic and clunky gameplay, it's a lot more fun and you don't need to waste time with tons of loading screens. FOR THE EMPEROR!
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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-editionThe 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 24.
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