Dark Sector
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 3,623
- Critics
- 66 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 53% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8h
- To 100%
- 11.6h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 5 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 January 2013
- Sale every
- 184d last June 2016
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 41% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
5 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 26 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 540 weeks ago.
Among the games that feel like it, World War Z ($29.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Space™ 3 ($19.99, scores 32).
More about Dark Sector
Critics scored it 66. Players sit 9 points higher at 75 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 352 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3779 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
This game is pretty fun, and essentially, it's like the original idea of what Warframe was going to be.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 6.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dark Sector scores 39/100 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/29900/dark-sectorReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.