Dyscourse

Dyscourse

Skip · Strategy · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 29, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
1.1h 9.5h to 100%
Value
$13.63/hr
Reviews
77% of 442 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

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3210 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
Value$13.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 15 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

Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

11 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 459 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. On the same math Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) and Reigns: Her Majesty ($2.99, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Dyscourse

Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 8.6 times the campaign.

The drop-off

37% start to 3% 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

This was the very first game that I played on steam and is what started my fascination with choice based games.
agnesrae2Recommendedafter 8.4hApr 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Art is Great Choices kinda matter Looking forward to playing through different endings
CoreyRecommendedafter 3.8hFeb 2021Read on Steam
4/10 Promising on paper but dull and underwhelming in action. I've really struggled with this decision as I don't like writing negative reviews, especially when it can be boiled down to personal preference but when I asked myself if I would recommend this game to anyone I know based on its own merits, the answer was a decisive no. The average playthrough is about an hour long but has such a wide variety of choices...
MoginNot recommendedafter 3.3hMar 2021Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Dyscourse scores 29/100 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/234920/dyscourse
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics71
Players77
Metacritic critics · 442 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOwlchemy Labs
PublisherOwlchemy Labs
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31