The Mercury Man
Fair · Action · 2018
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.7h 8.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 592 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The Mercury Man is an isometric game in the action genre with some adventure elements. It is set in the far grim dark future of its unique sci-fi world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT 720M, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
26 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion ($2.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats G2 Fighter / 基因特工 ($15.99, scores 44).
More about The Mercury Man
Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
How on earth is this game reviewed well? 80% of your time is spent staring at a GPS! The story is OK, the grammar and dialog are not great. The "gun-play" is atrocious. Awful movement with stutter steps to try and get a shot off. What were they thinking?
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The art and music are good, but the action part of the game sucks horribly and the English translation is pretty bad too. The game quickly becomes more frustrating than fun.
I like the gritty cyberpunk atmosphere of this one, reminds me of the 90s cyberpunk adventure game "Dreamweb" somehow. Storyline and the soundtrack are also great, I like the Russian characteristics here too, that's not something I've seen before in a cyberpunk game. English translation isn't terrible either, although I will admit the syntax of some of the sentences can be a bit odd at times The gunplay in this game...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Mercury Man scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/740200/the-mercury-manReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.