Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Worth it · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 20.6h
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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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.
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The value story
October 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 97 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 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 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 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 69).
This site sampled 555 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 252 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.
The drop-off
58% start to 1% 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
33 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
The writing in this game is fantastic. If you're not a person that read's the quest text or you just want to speed run the game, it's fine. It's solid gameplay with fair and rewarding systems. But. If you love RP and really like immersive storytelling with rewarding decision making, there are fewer better games.
I absolutely adored this game, I feel like they did a great job translating Shadowrun's system into a game and make it more bare-able (tabletop players know what I'm talking about). The story is great and the gameplay is really interesting. I really feel like I'm in the Shadowrun Universe, it's so good.
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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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut scores 80/100 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/300550/shadowrun-dragonfall-director-s-cutThe 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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