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BioShock Infinite

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.

Developer
Irrational Games, Virtual Programming (Linux)
Publisher
2K
Franchise
BioShock
Release date
Mar 25, 2013
Store page updated
Oct 11, 2024
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

85.9/ 100

Based on 445 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 89% of 374
All time 😄 Very Positive 93% of 145,726
“worth a playthrough despite identity conflict”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.83
Controls & feel +0.80

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.66
Story +3.18
“beautiful story and masterpiece game” (175)

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Content Volume
+0.33
Variety -2.09
“gameplay can become repetitive over time” (12)
Je peux comprendre pourquoi certains n’apprécient pas trop Bioshock Infinite. C’est un peu le vilain petit canard de la série: le gameplay change et l’univers est totalement différent. Cela dit, ce n’est clairement pas un mauvais jeu. Personnellement, je l’ai adoré, tout comme Bioshock 1 et 2. Pour son époque, le jeu était vraiment incroyable. L’univers est certes différent je dois l’avouer, et j’ai eu un peu de mal au début étant très attaché à l’ambiance des deux premiers, mais au final, il est vraiment sympa. L’histoire est également très réussie. Il faut souligner qu’à l’époque, les dévelo

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Visuals & Sound
+4.08
Visuals +4.08
“they nailed the aesthetics, looks very pretty” (61)

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Multiplayer
+3.43

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.43

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-1.83

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Balance -2.85

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Tech & Ops
-0.55

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Performance +0.96

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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%100%
Apr 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 367 reviews, peak 20/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.

Review languages

Languages of the 440 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English39%
  • Russian15%
  • Chinese15%
  • Spanish11%
  • Portuguese8%
  • Turkish4%
  • Other9%

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

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