Dreamfall Chapters
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$6.2475% offFair
- Cost per hourA
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 4,536
- Critics
- 71 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22h
- To 100%
- 35.9h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 67% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 70 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 March 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
67% start to 67% 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
The value story
The value story
Across all 70 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Detroit: Become Human ($39.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats The Uncertain: Light At The End ($9.99, scores 14).
More about Dreamfall Chapters
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 18. This site sampled 473 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 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.
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
What a lovely story. True, some things were lost since the last game. However, the tale they wished to tell from the beginning has been told.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Dreamfall Chapters scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/237850/dreamfall-chaptersReviews 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 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.