Don Duality

Don Duality

Skip · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 12, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
3h
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
64% of 376 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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

Holding it back
Reviews64% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 289 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Don Duality is a Chaos Manager game with card mechanics. Send your gangsters to the heist and launder money in your restaurant. Hire staff and upgrade your establishment, but remember that life like a roulette wheel and not everything can be fully controlled in Don's journey.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card with DirectX 10 or higher support, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 33 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Ballionaire ($4.93, scores 61) and (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) both outscore it.

More about Don Duality

75 on Metacritic, 64 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.

This site sampled 289 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

92% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Once you have a successful restaurant, you're screwed. It becomes too random, too hard to keep up and too micro managing.
Rafael CavacchiniNot recommendedafter 4.5hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Interesting gameloop, but the game basically softlocks when you run a functional business. Get staff with some level ups and the restaurant earns and launders money so quick that you never have the unlaundered currency again. Sounds nice, but for some reason you also need unlaundered currency for some things. Like hiring new gang members. Kind of sucks when they all died recently and now you are stuck with a regular...
Bartender TailsNot recommendedafter 1.6hOct 2025Read on Steam
Good game but once your restaurant gets upgraded its impossible to keep dirty money due to how fast it gets laundered which is required to hire new gangsters the game actively breaks itself as the more you play it to the point that it just soft locks you from continuing
GoudaNot recommendedafter 1.5hJun 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Don Duality scores 12/100 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/2247570/don-duality
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.

Critics vs players-11
Critics75
Players64
Metacritic critics · 376 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKönigsborgs
PublisherRavenage Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements25