Days Gone
BANGER · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $39.99.
- Length
- 36.6h
- Value
- $1.09/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 (3 GB) or AMD Radeon R9 290 (4 GB), 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
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
The lowest price on record is $12.49, set in December 2023. 36 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The nearest things to it, How to Survive ($3.74, scores 66) and Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition ($11.99, scores 56), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 559 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 2,826 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Still 1.6K concurrent players, 5 years in.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
96% start to 41% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
1,600 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
Truly brilliant game. It DOES have its shortcomings, Like the animations and the graphics at times, but its still a great game. Truly one of the games of all time, I feel like a sequel would be nice, as long as they dont drag out the existing storyline.
The game is a hidden brilliant. Very interesting, almost like a good tv show! Enjoyed replay it much. 100% recommend
not quite as grounded as the last of us but it is still a 10/10 and has some things in the game the last of us doesnt have. basically both are great to have, just thought i should compare to them both since they are very similar in genre and popularity and both *were* playstation exclusives. runs great 110 - 130 fps at max graphic settings on 4k with my setup.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Days Gone scores 85/100 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/1259420/days-goneThe 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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