Day of Defeat: Source
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Runs on Windows, Linux.
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What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2017. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 48 in the 14 years tracked, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 14 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 ($4.99, scores 63) and Day of Defeat ($4.99, scores 81).
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 12 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 3,178 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
24% start to 3% 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
Players
238 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Even though I am able to play latest modern shooters without any issue, I find myself playing DoD time to time. And I've pondered. "Why do I play this old game when I have bunch of other option?". I concluded that answer is simplicity . Modern games are complicated thus overstimulating. In modern games you have to learn gameplay mechnanics (such as movement, gunplay etc.) to get somewhat competent. Modern graphics...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Day of Defeat: Source scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/300/day-of-defeat-sourceThe 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 Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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