Halo: The Master Chief Collection
BANGER · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.92/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 264,186
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 43.4h
- To 100%
- 310.2h 7.1x the story
- Finish
- 1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 700
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 June 2023
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,393 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
45 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™ ($9.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Black Mesa ($19.99, scores 84).
More about Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 43.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 10,945 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 43.4 hours; clearing it takes 310, which is 7.1 times the campaign.
264,186 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 20 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Nostalgia in a Box Regret: 8% (all of it spent on the Library level) Six Halo games in one package, and they finally work on PC. As a kid, I played Halo on a tiny TV in a friend's basement. Now I play it on a big monitor in my own basement. Progress. The campaigns hold up really well, the music still gives me goosebumps, and the Library level is still the worst thing to ever happen...
2 more reviews
10/10. Halo is: - Halo 1 - Halo 2 - Halo 3 - Halo ODST - Halo Reach Everything else is fanfiction.
Finally went on sale. Buy this instead of that remake slop. Oh and download project reclaimer too.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The Master Chief’s iconic journey includes six games, built for PC and collected in a single integrated experience. Whether you’re a long-time fan or meeting Spartan 117 for the first time, The Master Chief Collection is the definitive Halo gaming experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: AMD HD 6850 ; NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 43 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Halo: The Master Chief Collection scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/976730/halo-the-master-chief-collectionReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.