Days Gone

Days Gone

BANGER · Shooter · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$15.9960% offBANGER

Cost per hourA
$1.09/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 118,274
Genre rank
Top 3% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
36.6h
To 100%
65.7h 1.8x the story
Finish
41% reach the ending
Achievements
67

Price and sales

Sales
37 on record
Typical cut
67% off
Steam low
$12.49 December 2023
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $38.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $9.86 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
870 now
Recent reviews
90% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
91% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

96% start to 41% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

37 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The nearest things to it, How to Survive ($14.99, scores 58) and Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition ($11.99, scores 56), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Days Gone

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 18. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,182 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 2,830 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

118,274 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

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
Cost per hour$1.09/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement41% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds10 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

I keep replaying this game every few months as I love it so much. Such a great story, characters and open world to explore. The bonus games are a blast too if you want to see how long you can last against respawning hordes. The challenges also give you rewards that you can benefit from in the main game too.
Brian MaidenRecommendedafter 244h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Gets old fast. Its generic in every way. Combat, crafting, story, its all present but none of it is fleshed out. Basic crafting, empty open world, characters you don't care about no matter how many unskippable cut scenes you are forced through. The characters have stories! Who cares though? I couldn't make myself, maybe you will have better luck.
U_with_the_faceNot recommendedafter 43h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Days Gone scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1259420/days-gone
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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.

Details

DeveloperBend Studio
PublisherPlayStation Publishing LLC
GenreShooter
Released2021
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements67