Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™
Skip · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 13.6h
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 38% of 382 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. Bring five restaurants back to life, and meet new customers like the Hungry Man and the Celebrity. Take special care of customers with reservations and place flowers at tables in order to make diners happier.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 64 MB video RAM recommended. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in January 2013. It has gone on sale once in the 14 years tracked here, most recently in January 2013.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Bakery Simulator ($1.11, scores 18) and TasteMaker ($7.19, scores 52) both outscore it.
More about Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™
4 of the 264 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 38 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 09:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is so hard and so overwhelming. It used to be the fun kind of chaotic but now it's just discouraging. There are too many new mechanics going at once. Between MULTIPLE types of loud customers, different ways they interact with each other, the environment causing extra work, it's just too much. You also don't pass Level 10 of the first environment unless you chain your actions together. I've played Diner...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Game has a lot of bugs. Just stops playing in the middle of a round. Very frustrating
Unsure why it has mostly Negative Reviews. This is the most incredible game I've ever played in my Entire life. You have to master the skill of Dining and Dashing in order to beat level 10 of the first Restaurant. Once you do? You'll understand the highs and lows of Diner Dash.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™ scores 0/100 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/37240/diner-dash-hometown-heroReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.