Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.58.
- Length
- 14.3h
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2019. 94 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 6 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 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $15.58, a level the record has reached 93 times.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 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.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 5,852 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.
It came out 12 years ago and 524 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
77% 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
524 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
What a pleasant surprise! I had always heard good things about this game, so I decided to give it a try, and I absolutely loved it! Now I eat pork buns every day and I can't stop! I'm addicted. Sleeping Dogs has a very interesting and engaging story and I love the atmosphere of Hong Kong. The whole undercover cop/triad story gives the game a lot of personality. The graphics have aged really well and still look...
Amazing story, great combat system and a really fun open world. The Hong Kong setting gives the game a unique atmosphere. Honestly, I think Sleeping Dogs is better than GTA lol
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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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition scores 81/100 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/307690/sleeping-dogs-definitive-editionThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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