Dark Sector
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 6.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
A third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in January 2013. 5 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 26 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, World War Z ($29.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Space™ 3 ($3.99, scores 37).
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 351 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
36 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Dark Sector scores 39/100 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/29900/dark-sectorThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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