Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Skip · Shooter · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Under the fair line 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

$39.99Skip

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9985% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$3.70/hr
Reviews▼
81% of 50,072
Critics
86 players 5 lower
Genre rank
Top 45% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
10.8h
To 100%
33.8h 3.1x the story
Finish
48% reach the ending
Achievements
80

Price and sales

Sales
66 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$5.99 November 2022
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $4.21 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
440 now
Recent reviews
81% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
58% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

95% start to 48% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

Across all 66 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 45 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood ($19.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Wolfenstein: Youngblood ($19.99, scores 0).

More about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Steam's global achievement data puts 48 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 2,170 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 10.8 hours. Doing everything runs 34, 3.1 times as long.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 24 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
Engagement48% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.70/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds8 of 799 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

Each new Wolfenstein game does something better than the other: The New Order has the best writing, the Old Blood has the best aesthetics, whereas The New Colossus... well, it's hard to say. It's definitely not the story and characters. They are the complete opposite - the writing is just awful. The characters are not memorable at all and they are written like caricatures, like jokes and I simply don't care about...
BUOIRecommendedafter 77h15 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood & New Order are great games, fun, entertaining, writing of characters and dialog is pretty decent/fun. This game however, Wolvenstein 2: The New Colossus feels like a chore to play. Unlike the other two games in the series before this one, the "stealth" option really isn't an option and you are going to go in guns blazing which is fine but the hardest difficulty "I am death incarnate" will...
DrakmearNot recommendedafter 18h19 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

America, 1961. The assassination of Nazi General Deathshead was a short-lived victory. The Nazis maintain their stranglehold on the world. You are BJ Blazkowicz, aka “Terror-Billy,” member of the Resistance, scourge of the Nazi empire, and humanity’s last hope for liberty.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 770 4GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB or better, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus scores 46/100 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/612880/wolfenstein-ii-the-new-colossus
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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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-5
Critics86
Players81
Metacritic critics · 50,072 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperMachineGames
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreShooter
Released2017
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements80