Director Simulator
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.19/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 636 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.86 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
You, who lack talent, always have strange dreams. Until one day, all kinds of beautiful women from dreams entered your life one by one. You will experience an unprecedented legendary journey from a first person perspective.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Discrete graphics, 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 23 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator ($12.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
More about Director Simulator
Steam's global achievement data puts 66 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 385 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 3.1 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% start to 66% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Consider this a mixed review - the inability to mark a game as 'neutral' annoys me once more. In its original language, this is *probably* a very good FMV game. It is technically very well produced, the acting seems quite good, it has an amazing soundtrack - probably the best in any FMV I've played so far, and you can somewhat see what they were trying to do with the story. That 'somewhat' is the problem though...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I really tried to like this game but there's too many technical issues with it, like often the screen will freeze crashing the game, and the subtitles in english are inaccurate. The phone messages are not translated either, luckily the decisions you make following these are seemingly inconsequential, so it's not a big deal. I think there's a bug that prevented me from progressing passed the volleyball scene, because...
Director Simulator is one of those FMV games that slowly pulls you in before you really realize it. At first, it feels like a fairly standard romance FMV, but after spending some time with it, the game makes it clear that it has more ambition than most titles in the genre. What stood out to me the most is how much your choices actually matter. The story regularly throws in unexpected twists, early endings, and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Director Simulator scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2803060/director-simulatorReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.