The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.89/hr
- Reviews▼
- 70% of 12,105
- Critics
- 66 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 72% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.6h
- To 100%
- 17.7h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 41
Price and sales
- Sales
- 91 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 June 2014
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 28% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
54% start to 3% rarestThis 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
It has been discounted 91 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II ($39.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats LOST PLANET® 3 ($24.99, scores 10).
More about The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
This site sampled 598 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 597 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (finite spend, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 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
They wanted to try something new by changing the genre for this game, at least they executed and it went decent. I don't try enough new things or produce anything meaningful.
1 more review
Come Back To Finish This Game Recently , Because Star Wars Zero Company Remind Me Of This Game .I Had To Say This Game Is So Difference From Xcom Because You Play In 3rd Person Pov Then U Can Also Control Your Teammate Where To Go And To Do . Overall The Story Are Still Better Than Many 3 A Games This Day But The Issue For Me Is Crashing Glad It Doesn't Bother Me Much
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX9 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified scores 22/100 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/65930/the-bureau-xcom-declassifiedReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.