Detroit: Become Human
BANGER · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 66 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $7.99 at 80 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 69. The current cut is what makes it a 97.
Value puts it in the top 1 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 Beyond: Two Souls ($1.99, scores 79) and Heavy Rain ($1.99, scores 74).
$16.95 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $7.99.
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,828 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 6,910 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.
6 years after release it still had 2.3K people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
88% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2,344 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's Insane how every single choice can have drastically different gameplays... for me this is a 10/10 game
Nineteen hours in, I finally finished my first playthrough. tbh, if it weren't for achievement some bad endings i just couldn't bring myself to choose. The three protagonists has an unforgettable story. and tbw, Connor is so sexy.XP After finished, i know why every friends who recommended this game to me gave it such high praise. Obviously, One of the best movie games I've ever played, This isn't just a game it's a...
Great graphics, good story, I don't like quick time event. So it's gonna be 8/10
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Detroit: Become Human scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1222140/detroit-become-humanThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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