Dust: An Elysian Tail
Worth it · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.48/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 19,111
- Genre rank
- Top 2% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.1h
- To 100%
- 18.4h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 August 2014
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 7% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $12.30 BANGER line 79 times.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60) and Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Dust: An Elysian Tail
This site sampled 577 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 1,217 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I have a question for you: Are you a furry? Yeah, neither am I, but this game was pretty fun. Nothing revolutionary, but it's solid and has killer art direction.
2 more reviews
A good game to spend some time with. The combat is probably the strongest part of the experience. It is fast, responsive, and entertaining enough to carry the game all the way to the end. Exploration also works well, and overall I enjoyed playing it. There were a few things that felt a little awkward or uneven, but nothing serious enough to really hurt the experience. My main feeling after finishing the story was...
beautiful game. Nostalgic and cinematic. 10/10. Wished the ending was different but its also beautiful
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible video card with shader model 3.0 support, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dust: An Elysian Tail scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236090/dust-an-elysian-tailReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.