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Halo: The Master Chief Collection

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.

Developer
343 Industries, Splash Damage, Ruffian Games, Bungie, Saber Interactive
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Franchise
Halo
Release date
Dec 3, 2019
Store page updated
Mar 25, 2026
Price
$39.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

76.7/ 100

Based on 327 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 88% of 892
All time 😄 Very Positive 92% of 262,693
“very good gameplay, lovely story, long playtime, worth the price”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.45
Controls & feel +0.75 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.36
Story +3.55 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“love the story, one of top 5 greatest games” (47)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.32
Volume +4.33 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price
“MCC offers six Halo games plus mod support for $10 cheaper than Campaign Evolved alone” (38)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.17
Visuals +2.99 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“five of the best first person shooters of all time in collection” (24)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+0.81
Playing together +1.35 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
+0.87
Pricing +2.13 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
-1.61
Developer support -2.18 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
“Halo today is a shell of its former self” (22)

🔒 2 more indicators

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
80%85%90%95%100%
Dec 2019Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 885 reviews, peak 50/day
02550
Aug 21Sep 18

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 327 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English52%
  • Spanish12%
  • Chinese11%
  • Portuguese7%
  • Russian7%
  • French3%
  • Other7%

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

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