Dreamfall Chapters
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 22h
- Value
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in March 2025. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 69 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Detroit: Become Human ($7.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($9.99, scores 40).
The press gave it 71; the people who bought it give it 82 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 67 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 473 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 214 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 67% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
6 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
This game is like Life is Strange when it comes to being told from a Leftist POV so that is frustrating. I got this game on sale. the story is huge so there is a lot. Some parts a very slow but there is a lot to explore. There are some parts where it is easy to get lost and not know what to do. I ONLY recommend if on SALE.
For starters, play Dreamfall: The Longest Journey before this one, as it's better and will make much more sense. I'm glad many of the questions I had left unanswered were finally addressed in Chapters, and despite its enormous flaws, I had a good time with it. However, the political elements felt overly prominent and very much forced. Zoë's personality is also noticeably different, which I found quite odd. The...
Spit in the face of all the fans of the first two games. Story - boring mess, devoid of any charm or feeling of adventure the previous games had. Beloved characters - butchered beyond recognition. Gameplay - slog. No wonder these developers then went to create that Dustborn abomination.
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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Dreamfall Chapters scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/237850/dreamfall-chaptersThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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