Duke Nukem Forever
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 11,692
- Genre rank
- Top 71% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.2h
- To 100%
- 22.2h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 10% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 62
Price and sales
- Sales
- 93 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 July 2017
- Sale every
- 44d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 27 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 27% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 93 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour ($19.99, scores 52) outscores it, and so does Borderlands 3 ($5.99, scores 59). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Duke Nukem Forever
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 984 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.2 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 2.4 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Please remove the review prompt. EVGA made a custom GTX 560 Duke Nukem edition to celebrate the launch of this game.
2 more reviews
Very fun game, the attention to detail is insane for a 2012 game, everything is interactable. The graphics are still really good, playing this game in 4k120fps no issues or lag whatsoever, no external patches needed, just a fun and comedic semi-open linear game to play after a long day. A must buy if it is on sale, you will enjoy it.
Duke Nukem: Forever is a first-person shooter that features combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving, with players playing as the legendary Duke Nukem, as he battles alien invaders across various locations. Duke Nukem, who is now a world-renowned icon living in Las Vegas. The story begins with Duke witnessing an alien invasion while preparing for a talk show interview, prompting him to come out of retirement to...
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About the game
The King arrives with an arsenal of over-the-top weapons, giant explosions and pure unadulterated fun!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 7600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Duke Nukem Forever scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/57900/duke-nukem-foreverReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.