The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. On a 35.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
So after 40+hrs playing I'd say I've a fair impressions of both the pros and cons of Mechwarrior 5. I don't use mods so this is the base game and all DLC's installed, and speaking of the DLC, you will want all of it as I can already see what it adds to the game is too important to be left out. Either buy on sale or as a discounted package - but don't play without them. As for the game itself - the campaign has you...
Big fan of MW2 played that a lot, I'm hoping to have fun with this one, too! I seen a lot of the mechs that I bought back in the day as models. It seems to be rather good so far. Though there seems to be bugs that I am disappointed with. Modding is tough cause there's a bunch that will just conflict with each other and cause crashes. So you have to be careful and study which mods have the goods and the ones that...
After 4 hours I find that the mechs don't feel heavy, even if you adjust the mouse response time. The tutorial doesn't cover all of the basics, you have to go looking through the control setup to find what does what (center torso to legs, Auto Stop and other basic vehicle commands. The missions you can take are not clear in what you will be facing, for example, I built up to three mechs with pilots and took what...
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Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableNO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it, no rush.
about 35.6h$29.99 (~)
Better value than 85% of Shooter games
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/784080/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/784080/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/784080" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/784080/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 4h ago.
Low $7.49High $29.99Now $29.99
Price line + bands by tier:Worth itFairPrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
Peak 636Low 636Latest 636
Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 35 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 8 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including MechWarrior Online™ Legends (free, scores 54) and MechWarrior 5: Clans ($29.99, scores 25).
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 35.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.