DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.36.
- Length
- 1.8h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.88/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 456 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.36 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
DUSK '82 is a simple but addictive action-puzzler demake of the cult shooter DUSK, inspired by classics like Chip's Challenge and Sokoban.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any made within the last decade, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 37 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.36. The record reaches that level 28 times.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Linelith ($2.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Ninja Stealth ($4.99, scores 26).
More about DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 315 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 157 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
78% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 15:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Nice little prequel to Dusk, gameplay is pretty straight forward. People complaining about enemy AI like its dark souls or something, It's not that deep. 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
On the one paw this is REALLY good. Simple yet capable of complexity. On the other paw it's REALLY short. It had a few hard levels but over all it was not terrible. Won it i one afternoon. On the OTHER paw it has a set up for user created levels. You have to know how to get them but it's standard steam stuff, And some of the user stuff has not been bad at all. My fourth paw is busy with something so this will have...
Fun little side game, but has some really janky and infuriating enemy AI that makes certain levels feel completely luck based at times (especially those last few stages, yuck). [Would only recommend this to die-hard fans of the main game]
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1465510/dusk-82-ultimate-editionReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.