Dragon Star Varnir

Dragon Star Varnir

Skip · RPG · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$39.99Skip

On its price record

$19.23Fair

Length
16.1h 35.6h to 100%
Value
$2.48/hr
Reviews
79% of 613 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.23 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement9% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 275 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Fight in 3-tiered battles, devour your enemies, and customize your characters in this epic RPG to end the dragon's curse!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx, 1GB VRAM 5000, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 41 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ($69.99, scores 67) and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) both outscore it.

More about Dragon Star Varnir

Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 275 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

16.1 hours to finish it, 36 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

76% start to 9% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

My Tamagotchi can't possibly be this adorable! This game was originally announced on 6/14/18 for PS4 in Japan, with its Western release following in June of 2019 and PC in October of the same year for those curious. This game features a unique style of combat where it's fought on 3 different levels: bottom, middle, and top. There are some monsters that can hit multiple levels, but nothing too terrifying; you should...
TipsyTailsRecommendedafter 18hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Mixed feelings about this one. Generally this game has a darker tone than what i've usually played from this developer, thumbs up for this one. Some mechanics were overly complicated such as gear crafting. Some mechanics were over simplified such as altitude in combat, it usually didn't matter since a lot of the stronger skills hit all levels of altitude. Seemed like the game was overly ambitious but couldn't...
KhaosRecommendedafter 23hJan 2026Read on Steam
Bad points: 1. Needing to switch character to traverse the area. --- 2. Plot and Flow Play halfway, some of the dialogue makes no sense. The plot is that, you eat dragon meat, you can prevent yourself from turning into dragon, which is fine, but what the characters does, is mind boggling. Character A likes the party, character A sees her friend turning into dragon from not eating dragon meat. Character A still...
daight90Not recommendedafter 4.2h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dragon Star Varnir scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1062040/dragon-star-varnir
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Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIdea Factory, Compile Heart
PublisherIdea Factory International
GenreRPG
Released2019
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements41