Dog Brew
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.73, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 35%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 79% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($2.27)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 79% ($0.73)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 / AMD Radeon R9 280X, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Dog Brew - a light indie adventure where the main character, burdened by debts, decides to settle them through the art of brewing beer.
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
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $0.70. 22 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.73 at 79 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Lemon Cake ($14.99, scores 64) and Big Farm Story ($19.99, scores 51), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $7.04, and you are being asked for $0.73.
3 of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 402 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.2 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
54% start to 8% 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
What players say
Not very good, but so very obviously indie that I would feel bad giving this a thumbs down. The progression curve is so adversarial and unrefined it sort of loops back around to being interesting again.
Awesome, silly little whimsical game, cost me £2.98, both me and my partner bought it and we played over an evening and an afternoon. Lots of laughs, very addictive, plenty of fun. Highly recommend. You could flesh this out and play it for a hundred hours easily. If Dog Brew 2 came out, I'd buy it.
It's not fun at all. The NPC's arn't fun or interesting. The main gameplay loop of brewing beer is not even close to fun. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get fish but i do suspect it may be cuz my game bugged and i couldnt progress the fishermans quests... How this has almost no negative reviews is baffling to me.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Dog Brew scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2883280/dog-brewReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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