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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

America, 1961. The assassination of Nazi General Deathshead was a short-lived victory. The Nazis maintain their stranglehold on the world. You are BJ Blazkowicz, aka “Terror-Billy,” member of the Resistance, scourge of the Nazi empire, and humanity’s last hope for liberty.

Action AdventureFirst-Person ShooterOpen World

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Would you recommend it?
Player score
8.1/10
49,468 reviews
Released
2017
Developer
Not recorded
Platforms
4 systems
Critics
86
Steam Deck
verified
Download
55 GB
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus?

America, 1961. The assassination of Nazi General Deathshead was a short-lived victory. The Nazis maintain their stranglehold on the world. You are BJ Blazkowicz, aka “Terror-Billy,” member of the Resistance, scourge of the Nazi empire, and humanity’s last hope for liberty.

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released27 October 2017
DeveloperNot recorded
PublisherBethesda Softworks
PlatformsPC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck
GenresAction Adventure, First-Person Shooter, Open World
Languages10 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q30276412, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus received?

Players81%positive of 49,468 · Very Positive
Metacritic86critic aggregate, PC
Achievements80on Steam

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

Accessibility

5 declared features

Seeing

  • Color Alternatives

Hearing

  • Stereo Sound
  • Surround Sound

Input

  • Full controller support

Difficulty

  • Save Anytime

Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
Controllerfull support
Cloud savesYes
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playSingle-player only
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckverified
Download size55 GB
Add-on content4 DLC listed
Age gate17+

Content descriptors

  • Some nudity or sexual content
  • Frequent violence or gore
  • General mature content

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

What does it cost?

$39.99

Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.

Is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus worth it?

81% of 49,468 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $39.99 on Steam, and critics score it 86/100.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.

How long is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus? How long to beat it

Total play time for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is about 33.7 hours to do everything, and around 10.8 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus length by how much you play
How you playHoursPlayers logged
Just the main story: straight through the critical path10.8h1,656
Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do17.1h1,153
Completionist: everything: 100% the game33.7h121

At its current price of $39.99, beating the main story works out to about $3.70 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.

Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus system requirements

The minimum requirements from Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus minimum requirements
Memory8 GB RAM (other games at this level)
ProcessorAMD FX-8350/Ryzen 5 1400
GraphicsNvidia GTX 770 4GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB · runs on a low-end GPU
Storage55 GB (more games this size)
System64-bit OS required

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Estimated sales for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

These are estimates, not reported figures. The publisher has not published unit sales for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

1.5M–3.0MEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime
$20M–$78MEstimated player spendbefore Valve's cut
$14M–$55MEstimated to the publisherafter the 30% platform cut

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam49,468
Sales per review30 to 60
List price$39.99
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If the publisher publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $39.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

Latest Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus updates & patch notes

Pulled from Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.

  1. Wolfenstein 3 is reportedly in the works at Machine Games, possibly alongside a Rainbow Six Siege-ish multiplayer thing · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
  2. 'Do you think there would be a problem if we see Hitler's penis?' MachineGames considered having a full frontal Fuhrer in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus · PC Gamer

What readers say about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.

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Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

  1. Crashes and freezes49 of 300 (16%)

    You can sit pretty at 500 fps, zero issues as the performance is well optimized, but the game will crash because it has created a tiny allocation of 200 megs of VRAM and filled it up.

    Steam review, 31 May 2026 · 12 hours played · 34 readers marked it helpful

    I did have some performance issues here and there, including some crashes and my screen going dark in some cutscenes, but besides that, nothing game-breaking.

    Steam review, 22 March 2026 · 9 hours played · 17 readers marked it helpful
  2. Performance and stutter24 of 300 (8%)

    You can sit pretty at 500 fps, zero issues as the performance is well optimized, but the game will crash because it has created a tiny allocation of 200 megs of VRAM and filled it up.

    Steam review, 31 May 2026 · 12 hours played · 34 readers marked it helpful

    i've never had an issue in a game where it constantly drops from max fps to 5 fps before.

    Steam review, 30 June 2026 · 4 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

A further 16 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.

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Games like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

24 games overlap with Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and Homefront: The Revolution.

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Part of the Wolfenstein series

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Common questions about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

What platforms is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on?

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is available on PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck. It first released in 2017.

How much does Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus cost?

$39.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.

Do players recommend Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus?

81% of 49,468 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

What is the Metacritic score for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus?

86 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.

Does Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.

How big is the Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus download?

55 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.

Is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus worth it in 2026?

81% of 49,468 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $39.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on sale?

Not at the moment. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is at its $39.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.

What are the system requirements for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus?

At minimum, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus needs 8 GB RAM, a AMD FX-8350/Ryzen 5 1400, a Nvidia GTX 770 4GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB, 55 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.

How long does it take to beat Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus?

about 10.8 hours for the main story, 17.1 hours with the main extras, 33.7 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.