Dragon Age™: The Veilguard
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $20.99.
- Length
- 28.8h
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 60% over the last 30 days against 68% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $17.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 16 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $20.99 at 65 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 18. With it, 22.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($9.99, scores 40) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($9.99, scores 11).
Players rate it 68 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 60 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 1,952 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 28.8 hours; clearing it takes 78, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
89% start to 16% 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
804 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
I LOVE DA and was so excited to play veilguard, but it was just...meh. It's a pretty game, I love the customization of rook, the combat is decently fun. But for $60 it really just isn't worth it. The characters feel somewhat bland, I just don't care about them the way previous games make you care for your companions. One of the best parts of the series are the romances, and here I was shocked to find that I didn't...
It has some very nice points and some not so nice. The combat takes some getting used to. The graphics are nice. The fast travel was fun the first time, but running around for a few minutes to get on a boat is not fast. The only thing fast about fast travel is how fast it gets old. But, the game is new to me and is entertaining me, so I will keep on playing it for a while.
I love everything about this game! The main character has great lines and actually talks which is always a plus. The way we are introduced to the mc is also great. the side characters in your party all have interesting story lines that seem to have a lot of thought put into them. There is also a lot to see and do in this game. Graphics are great on my pc. This is my first dragon age game but its made me consider...
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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Dragon Age™: The Veilguard scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1845910/dragon-age-the-veilguardThe 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 23.
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