Mia and the Dragon Princess
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 1.1h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $13.63/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 294 positive
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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
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About the game
A live-action, interactive action movie following Mia, a plucky barmaid whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11.0 compatible video card, 9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
34 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Twin Mirror ($29.99, scores 31) and Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered ($39.99, scores 45) both outscore it.
More about Mia and the Dragon Princess
4 of the 213 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
1.1 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
At 1.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
50% start to 15% 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
What players say
Mia and the Dragon Princess is an energetic FMV adventure that embraces the idea of playing through an action movie rather than trying to imitate a conventional video game. Developed by Wales Interactive, Dead Pixel Productions, and Good Gate Media, and published by Wales Interactive, it places most of its emphasis on live-action performances, branching decisions, cinematic storytelling, and the consequences of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Mia and the Dragon Princess This is my favourite FMV from Wales interactive, it's funny, it has action and it's definitely one of the best stories they made! I would love to see a sequel with more adventure.
Terrible, the annoying homeless type woman or whoever she is was terrible hated her character, its confusing as hell makes little sense, is pretty boring just no, the choices are very uninteresting too, just didn't care for it and without the skip button i wouldn't of been able to do more than one play through so thank god that exists.
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Cite this score
Mia and the Dragon Princess scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1837580/mia-and-the-dragon-princessReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.