Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

Worth it · RPG · 2014

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The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$3.7475% offWorth it

Cost per hourS
$0.73/hr
Reviews▼
89% of 6,667
Critics
87 players 2 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
20.6h
To 100%
41.7h 2.0x the story
Achievements
39

Price and sales

Sales
99 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.99 October 2015
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now $3.75 at GOGall-time low $2.22 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
26 now
Cheaper than
22% of its genre
Better reviewed
92% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

58% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 99 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tactical Breach Wizards ($19.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 67).

More about Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

This site sampled 606 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 269 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 20.6 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 2.0 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 18 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.73/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds1 of 606 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Amazing Game. Easily the best one of the trilogy. Set in an rich beautifully written universe that deserves far more attention than it gets. If you've never played any Shadowrun before, and this game is your first experience of it, then I envy you. You're about to play something truly special and utterly unique.
_zygg_Recommendedafter 104hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Yes, but with a caveat. I absolutely love these games and wish they'd make more of them. The combat is like Xcom, but with less "You miss on a 99% chance to hit" bs. And more focus on the individual rather than the overall goal. You make your own character, you experience a story and an adventure, with a ton of awesome custom content. A big caveat with this game is that the rarest achievement is hard to get and is...
Layla SpellwindRecommendedafter 96h12 found this helpfulRead on Steam
A CRPG Classic that helped pave the way for games like BG3 and Rogue Trader. It's also set in my favorite cyberpunk (plus magic) universe! So if you love CRPGs and/or Cyberpunk, then this is a must have experience.
Many RooksRecommendedafter 74h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX compatible 3D graphics card with at least 256MB of addressable memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/300550/shadowrun-dragonfall-director-s-cut
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+2
Critics87
Players89
Metacritic critics · 6,667 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperHarebrained Schemes
PublisherParadox Interactive
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements39