Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 32.7h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 5870 or equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.79, set in June 2022. It has been discounted 76 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Drova - Forsaken Kin ($24.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Lords of the Fallen ($29.99, scores 24).
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,678 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 32.7 hours; clearing it takes 113, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
90% 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
329 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
I don't really like this game. I am giving it a 6/10. I feel like I have wasted 50 hours of my life. I have played till beating the dragon i.e. final battle. I did not do the post game or bitterblack isle. Here are the pros and cons of what the game is like. Pros: 1. The combat is better than most open world's 2. The vocation system itself and being able to switch vocation/classes during playing is a good idea. 3...
What can I say? I really gave this game a try (3 tries, in fact). It is a difficult game to recommend, but the reason for this is far from simple. For one, I remember (having dropped this for well over 3 months now) it having an exceptionally addictive combat system. I played as a melee character the first 2 times I tried to get into the game and finally settled to being a mage on my third try. The spells looked...
The absolute masterpiece of game design for it's era and for today standards too with the sequel. 10/10, the best thing I've played since Shadow of the Colossus paved my childhood.
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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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen scores 76/100 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/367500/dragon-s-dogma-dark-arisenThe 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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