Dragon's Lair
Skip · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $11.10/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 724 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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
About the game
Haven't heard of Dragon's Lair?! Well, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon! Originally released in the summer of 1983, Dragon's Lair has solidified itself as a cultural icon in gaming.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB GeForce 8800, Radeon 3850, or Intel HD 2000 Graphics, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
54 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 42 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Sonic Origins ($29.99, scores 34) outscores it, and so does Sonic Mania ($19.99, scores 65). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Dragon's Lair
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 274 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 456 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.9 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
53% start to 31% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I told my mom about walten files episode 3 and she told me to play this game. I'm not really sure what the correlation is but the animation here is bangin
2 more reviews
This game is a museum piece and I couldn't be more glad that it's widely available, that's the only reason that I'm giving the thumbs up sadly. There are so many problems with this game, I can't change the aspect ratio it would be great to have the 100% original footage, there are no video and audio options that I could find and the volume is too high at all times, I'm not sure if this is a thing for this re-release...
Great classic that I would recommend picking up if you wished you could beat the arcade cabinet. If you are a fellow achievement hunter, beware that this games achievements are extremely hard to achieve as you have to work around some frustrating bugs for a chance to have them unlock.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dragon's Lair scores 32/100 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/227380/dragon-s-lairReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.