Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Skip · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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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.
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.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in November 2022. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 41 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Wolfenstein: Youngblood ($19.99, scores 0).
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 8. This site sampled 798 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 2,150 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.
The drop-off
95% start to 48% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
290 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
Good game but a lot of woke propaganda. Also a lot of racism against white people.
I know this game has plenty of fans and positive reviews, but… nope. This one just didn't do it for me. The combat felt repetitive, the stealth was apparently so stealthy that I couldn't find it, and there were far too many political/woke elements that, to me, added little value to either the story or the gameplay. For the first time ever, I actually started skipping cutscenes! Overall, this one just didn't spark...
Not even decapitation can stop BJ. Bullets, boobs, and bombs. The Nazis don't stand a chance against Terror Billy. 10/10
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/612880/wolfenstein-ii-the-new-colossusThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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