Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $16.24.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 66% of 4,791
- Critics
- 59 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 77% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.4h
- To 100%
- 36.2h 2.0x the story
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 March 2024
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 21% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
42% start to 3% 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
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in March 2024. It has been discounted 87 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 87 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).
More about Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 579 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
This is the greatest piece of shit ever made. Do not buy unless your here for the story, otherwise you'll hate it. Also, don't buy the bundle version, the second game is actual dog shit flat out.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Deadly premonition is one of the most bizarre and simultaneously most memorable game that I have ever played, for better or for worse. This game feels like suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Half the time it feels like walking through sludge: stiff controls, questionable mechanics, technical issues and enough bugs to drive someone insane. And yet you catch yourself thinking fondly about this game. Basically, Deadly...
I want to give this a shot but it runs very poorly and crashes a lot. After a few hours it was too frustrating to continue.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-cutReviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.