BioShock Infinite
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.83.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $2.59/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was March 2014. 121 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $11.83 BANGER line 120 times.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wolfenstein: The New Order ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats BioShock™ ($19.99, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 4,406 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.6 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
145,664 reviews stand behind that percentage.
The drop-off
92% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
301 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
Great story. If you're wondering whether it is still worth it 10+ years after the release the answer is yes.
Like all the Bioshock games, it can't really decide whether it's a game or a story. Worth a playthrough though.
"We Want Call Of Duty's Audience", the game. One of the best environments and intro's in gaming, completely ruined by copy paste gameplay.
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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BioShock Infinite scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/8870/bioshock-infiniteThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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