Dishonored
BANGER · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 12.2h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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 $1.99, set in July 2019. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 14 years tracked, about 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.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ ($29.99, scores 49) and Dishonored 2 ($29.99, scores 64) both come in lower.
$21.31 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $9.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 657 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,331 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
12.2 hours to finish it, 38 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
At 12.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
84% start to 40% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
288 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
What started as "I'll give this a try" slowly turned into more than 140 hours of exploring Dunwall, replaying missions, hunting every achievement, collecting every rune, bone charm, blueprint, and Sokolov painting, and finding paths I somehow missed even after multiple playthroughs. Corvo became one of my favorite protagonists because the game lets your actions define who he is. Whether you choose to be a silent...
The game itself is amazing, and it's more impressive to learn that it was released in 2012. It's a masterpiece of a stealth game you need to try once in a lifetime. It aged very well.
One of the greatest games ever made. Buy the definitive edition with all the DLCs because they are just as amazing as the main game. I hope we get another Dishonored game that's just as great as 1 and 2.
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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Dishonored scores 98/100 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/205100/dishonoredThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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