The I of the Dragon
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 1,160
- Genre rank
- Top 45% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.8h
- To 100%
- 41.1h 2.0x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 103 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.76 January 2017
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 53% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 35% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
103 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 45 percent. It is less well reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($39.99, scores 39) beats it on value, while it beats Lords of the Fallen ($9.89, scores 26).
More about The I of the Dragon
1 of the 222 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 162 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 6 days ago.
- 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
I wish there was a neutral option because this game is hard to review. Mechanically, it crashes frequently and if you don't complete quests exactly as intended you may accidently lock your save in story progression. I got to the part where you Find a Roadrunner and Defend the Town. Supposedly portals are supposed to open, kill monsters, then upgrade town. I had already upgraded town to lvl4. So now I cannot trigger...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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. 🙂
Great premise, underwhelming delivery and a lot of untapped potential… but you do get to be a heroic albeit positively brutal dragon, so
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The I of the Dragon scores 32/100 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/279720/the-i-of-the-dragonReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.