Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
Worth it · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $25.00.
- Length
- 25.1h
- Value
- $2.39/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $35.99. That was November 2025. It has been discounted 11 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales. 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 11 weeks. No sale on record has reached $25.00, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT ($9.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Gotham Knights ($59.99, scores 16).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 3,427 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 25.1 hours. Doing everything runs 63, 2.5 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% 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
2,025 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
A masterclass of story telling... I simply cant even find the words for this review. The feelings that this game envoked in me were indescribable. I would advise ANYONE, who has never played this game to buy, play, master, but most importantly. Enjoy it... 10/10 Would let honor die on the beach again.
I really love the story in this game, and it was super emotional! The gameplay is also really easy to learn.
This is an open world samurai game that is amazing. The level of detail in this game is astounding, and the wind mechanic really adds to the immersion. It has great controls, awesome storyline, and some of the best graphics i've ever seen in a third person adventure game. It centers around the Japanese-Mongolian conflict and takes place in Japan. I would highly recommend this to anyone that likes historical games as...
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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Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2215430/ghost-of-tsushima-director-s-cutThe 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 4, price as of Sep 23.
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