Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $17.49.
- Length
- 18.4h
- Value
- $0.95/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Play as special agent Francis York Morgan in this open-world action-adventure as you solve the case of the Red Seed Murders and survive in a small, quirky American mountain town where supernatural creatures and a mysterious raincoat-clad, axe-wielding killer seek to end his investigation for good.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in March 2024. It has been discounted 85 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $17.49 at 30 percent off still sits 1310 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CONTROL Ultimate Edition ($39.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Alone in the Dark (2008) ($9.99, scores 0).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 578 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
42% start to 3% rarestNo 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
Players
19 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
If your game is crashing even with DFfix, try restarting your computer before playing. I had zero crashes while playing immediately after a PC restart. I bought this the day it launched on Steam in 2013 but couldnt get it to work and gave up, but playing the Directors Cut 16 years after the original was such a fantastic time. An incredible game where most of its flaws add character rather than detracting from the...
Its a cult classic, this ♥♥♥♥ is so bad that its actually good. As everyone else has said, yes everything is bad. But what I'm trying to say is that the story for this game is weirdly intriguing, the NPC's are strange while each of them have unique personality's. In my opinion It makes the story more bearable + entertaining. All love for my boy York. <3
While I'd love to recommend this game (I've been meaning to play it for a long time because of its cult status and adoration among its many fans, and I love the game itself so far), I genuinely don't suggest buying this version of the game as it stands. Despite attempting to use various community fixes to bypass the many, many game-breaking bugs and performance issues, my experience so far has been a miserable...
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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Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247660/deadly-premonition-the-director-s-cutThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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