LEGO® City Undercover

LEGO® City Undercover

Worth it · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$2.9985% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.31/hr
ReviewsS
91% of 11,580
Critics
80 players 11 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 42% off ($11.65) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
15.3h
To 100%
48.5h 3.2x the story
Achievements
48

Price and sales

Sales
72 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$2.99 February 2025
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.30 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
230 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Cheaper than
6% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

67% start to 6% 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

Across all 72 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $11.65, a level the record has reached 59 times.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ ($19.99, scores 67).

More about LEGO® City Undercover

The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 763 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 27 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 887 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 15.3 hours; clearing it takes 49, which is 3.2 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 16 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.31/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds27 of 763 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

What players say

this game is all that i love in a lego game just amped up to 1000, gta lego is godamn goated PLEASE MAKE A SECOND ONE LEGO PLEASEEE~ 1000/1000
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 3.9h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
The best lego game btw. All the collectibles are good and fit the city theme, the characters are flavorful, the humor is dumb, and the game controls... good. There is little downsides in this game besides getting around lego city and the data scanner being the only way to see certain collectibles, but its good. Should get a sequel
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 53h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Pros: it's a lego game. Hilarious, light-hearted and not so challenging, especially after unlocking the space suit. I enjoy the grind to 100% it for the most part. LOVE the pig music. All the constructions are incredible and they make me appreaciate human creativity and its beauty more in this day and age. Cons: - Some parts are pretty tedious (e.g collectibles involving the helicopter, or collectibles/quests being...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 59hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Join the Chase! In LEGO® CITY Undercover, play as Chase McCain, a police officer who's been tasked with going undercover to hunt down the notorious – and recently escaped – criminal Rex Fury and putting an end to his city-wide crime wave.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 560 Ti (1024 MB), Radeon HD 5850 (1024 MB), 18 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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LEGO® City Undercover scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/578330/lego-city-undercover
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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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+11
Critics80
Players91
Metacritic critics · 11,580 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTraveller's Tales
PublisherTT Games
GenreAction
Released2017
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements48