DC Universe™ Online
Fair · Multiplayer · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 74.8h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 68% over the last 30 days against 81% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI 1950+ Video Card, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
DC Universe Online is a Free-to-Play, massive multiplayer online action game set in the popular DC Universe. Become one of a new breed of Heroes or Villains and wield incredible powers as you go to war with legendary characters such as Batman, Superman, Lex Luthor and The Joker.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Champions Online (free, scores 28) and Neverwinter (free, scores 46), are both worse buys on this math.
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 9 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 81 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 68 percent. Something recent has soured the room.
HowLongToBeat players log 74.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 223, 3.0 times as much.
15 years after release it still had 546 people in it at once.
It is still busy. 546 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
31% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 74.8-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
546 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
DC Universe™ Online scores 56/100 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/24200/dc-universe-onlineThe 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 Aug 3.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.