HELLGATE: London
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 32h 48.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 57% of 2,318 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.09 (30% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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About the game
The return of a sensational game! Hellgate is an action RPG game you have been waiting for. Since its first release Hellgate won the hearts of thousands of fans and now it's time to bring back memories and dip into the near future of 2038. For all mankind!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6800+, ATI Radeon R300+, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
48 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Hellslave ($2.99, scores 69) outscores it, and so does Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos ($12.99, scores 24). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about HELLGATE: London
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 70 against 57 percent.
17 of the 677 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 169 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 17 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 489 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Half baked game with tons of potential. Since I was kid I loved the idea and the cinematics. But that is where it end. ACT 1 is interesting as you delve in and learn the mechanics and equipment. After that... Slugfest. All is same. Nothing changes. Here and there new enemies but nothing is different to point where you start.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I had never played the original game but always wanted to. I still sometimes find the old trailers and rewatch them for a hit of that 2000s nostalgia. When I saw they relaunched it as a single player title I decided to give it a shot. Hellgate: London is completely broken and unplayable. Eventually your game will drop to 1 FPS. That's just one of many significant issues. Unless you want to download some file from a...
Still One of the Best Games out there --Despite the Limitations-- a Classic that still delivers.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
HELLGATE: London scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/939520/hellgate-londonReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.