Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9985% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.40/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 80,653
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.3h
- To 100%
- 41.6h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 95 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2019
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 589 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 3% rarestThis 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
95 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $15.63, a level the record has reached 94 times.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The nearest things to it, Mafia: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 54) and Mafia ($14.99, scores 73), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 5,889 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 14.3 hours; clearing it takes 42, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
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
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What players say
This is an easy 10/10 for me. The story, characters, missions - I enjoyed every bit of it. This game proves that modern AAA games aren't lacking only in graphics; it's the gameplay and storytelling that we're missing. Even though this is an older game, it still looks great and, more importantly, plays incredibly well. I'm genuinely sad that we'll probably never get a sequel, especially considering this game wasn't a...
2 more reviews
8.5 / 10 Sleeping Dogs is an underrated sleeper hit. It taught me the real meaning of manhood. As the wise man says: "A man who never eat pork buns is never a whole man" Most people will make comparisons to GTA, which are valid, but for me I really appreciate the Hong Kong setting. It takes me back to playing Jet Li - Rise to Honor on PS2. This game didn't reinvent the wheel for GTA style games, but does take those...
This was my 3rd time 100%'ing Sleeping Dogs (PS3, PS4, and now PC). It's basically GTA Hong Kong, but has a quality 15-20 hour story that still holds up in 2026. The combat is similar to Yakuza, and is definitely more complex than a button-masher. In all honestly, the best part of the game is driving. So many different vehicles to drive, and each one feels and handles differently. This is one of the very few...
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About the game
The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition scores 81/100 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/307690/sleeping-dogs-definitive-editionReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.