The I of the Dragon
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 20.8h
- Value
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The world of Nimoa is as beautiful as the morning dew, but only at first glance. Under the surface of hills and fertile valleys lurks an old and eternal evil. Living as a mould, stretching threads through an infected area like deadly toadstools. The center of this "being?" deep in the under world is the giant daemon, Skarborr.
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
January 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.76. 101 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 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 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 47 percent on value. It is less well reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($9.99, scores 40) beats it on value, while it beats Lords of the Fallen ($29.99, scores 24).
1 of the 218 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 160 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
Players
1 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
Great premise, underwhelming delivery and a lot of untapped potential… but you do get to be a heroic albeit positively brutal dragon, so
The game is fantastic, BUT… - On Steam it's almost unplayable - The gameplay is buggy It sometimes freezes and crashes My recommendation: For smooth experience buy it GOG. You can play it without any worries. 🙂
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The I of the Dragon scores 32/100 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/279720/the-i-of-the-dragonThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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