Maximum Action
Skip · Shooter · 2018 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $13.33/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GT Or Equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was September 2020. 45 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 47 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. CULTIC ($9.99, scores 82) and Prodeus ($24.99, scores 58) both outscore it.
17 of the 575 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 149 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,073 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
1.5 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Years and years ago this game was pretty cool. I don't know where or what went wrong but the physics feel horrible, gunplay is less satisfying, and it overall feels like an inferior product to the game I bought nearly 10 years ago.
First and only indie game I've ever bought. (And probably will ever buy, old games > indie games & AAA slop) I played it a long time ago (Around 2022, I think?) so I probably can't articulate exactly what was wrong with the game, but I really didn't enjoy it. There was no real game flow in missions. Pacing felt incredibly weak. Gunplay was pretty basic if you weren't just shoot dodging all over the place for no...
Hey kiddo, Handsome Jack here... and I just played Maximum Action, and holy crap, this game is what happens when a development team gets locked in a room with every action movie ever made and someone keeps yelling, "MORE GUNS!" You are jumping through windows, diving through the air, shooting people in slow motion, throwing guns, kicking doors open, and generally behaving like the laws of physics personally insulted...
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Cite this score
Maximum Action scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/853770/maximum-actionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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