Detroit: Become Human

Detroit: Become Human

Worth it · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$3.9990% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$3.30/hr
ReviewsS
96% of 269,373
Critics
80 players 16 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 57% off ($17.01) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
12.1h
To 100%
32.2h 2.7x the story
Achievements
48

Price and sales

Sales
67 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$3.99 December 2025
Sale every
32d last October 2026
Lowest now $39.19 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.64 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3,464 now
Recent reviews
98% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

88% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 67 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $17.01. The record reaches that level 35 times.

Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Uncertain: Light At The End ($9.99, scores 14) and Beyond: Two Souls ($19.99, scores 65).

More about Detroit: Become Human

The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.

6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,105 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 7,001 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 12.1 hours. Doing everything runs 32, 2.7 times as long.

269,373 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.30/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds6 of 800 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

What players say

One of the best game i ever played in my gamer career alongside with A Plague Tale: Innocence.
Alex ChenRecommendedafter 18h134 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I went into Detroit: Become Human expecting a good story. I left questioning what it actually means to be human. This was my first playthrough, and I don't think I've ever felt this much pressure from simple dialogue choices in a game. Every decision felt important because it actually was. There were multiple moments where I sat staring at the screen for minutes, wondering if I was about to save someone, doom them...
VoidifyRecommendedafter 13h72 found this helpfulRead on Steam
One of the best games I've played. Incredible story. They rarely make games like this anymore nowadays
Business MonkeyRecommendedafter 16h42 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Detroit: Become Human scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1222140/detroit-become-human
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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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics80
Players96
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 269,373 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperQuantic Dream
PublisherQuantic Dream
GenreAction
Released2020
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements48