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Halo Infinite

From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience. 

Developer
343 Industries
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Franchise
Halo
Release date
Nov 15, 2021
Store page updated
Mar 25, 2026
Price
Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

52.1/ 100

Based on 381 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 64% of 330
All time 😐 Mixed 69% of 181,195
“core game is fun, campaign enjoyable, customization good”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.23
Controls & feel +2.02
“movement crisp, Spartan feels agile and grounded, gunplay feels great mechanically” (60)

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Story & World
-0.38
Story -0.55
“campaign forgettable, main plot points unmemorable” (33)

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Content Volume
-0.65
Volume -1.25

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Visuals & Sound
+1.29
Visuals +1.33
“art style is much better and closer to Bungie's Halo games” (20)

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Multiplayer
-0.69
Playing together +1.07
“multiplayer genuinely fun and well-designed” (28)

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Fairness
-2.32
Monetization -2.45
“armor color customization locked behind real money microtransaction” (40)

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Tech & Ops
-2.93
Developer support -3.12
“abandoned game exploiting community labor, developers fired staff for AI” (29)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
20%40%60%80%
Nov 2021Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 326 reviews, peak 19/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 381 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English71%
  • Spanish11%
  • Chinese7%
  • Russian3%
  • Portuguese3%
  • French2%
  • Other3%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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