DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon
Skip · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 619 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon is a colorful and lovingly hand-drawn Action RPG inspired by the 16-bit era. Finally, YOU get to play as the dragon! Breathe fire, fight knights, hoard gold, and find treasure! A refreshingly lighthearted game with an endearing story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 43 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. On the same math Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap ($19.99, scores 48) and Yoku's Island Express ($3.99, scores 94) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 203 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
7% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
i was REALLY hoping the reviews were exaggerating about this game being buggy and janky. and for the most part, i still firmly believe they are! i think the hitboxes are all very clear and it's just a matter of being more patient and observant of enemy patterns than most platformers. previously i only ran into one issue where i somehow clipped out of the dragon's house area and had to restart the game to leave since...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351150/dragon-a-game-about-a-dragonReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.