The Signifier Director's Cut
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 660 / AMD R9 270, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in December 2023. 51 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, THRESHOLD ($4.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Supernormal ($7.99, scores 30).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 257 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026.
5 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
60% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Signifier Director's Cut scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1082930/the-signifier-director-s-cutReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 1.
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