Cross of the Dutchman

Cross of the Dutchman

Skip · Action · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 37, under the fair line, at $6.99.

Length
2.7h 3.3h to 100%
Value
$2.59/hr
Reviews
75% of 372 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1565 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

Holding it back
Value$2.59/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 74% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 51 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Cross of the Dutchman is an action adventure game based on the true story of the folk legend 'Pier Gerlofs Donia'. The story takes place in medieval Western Europe, in the province of Frisia, near the turn of the 16th century.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 28 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 224 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Epistory - Typing Chronicles ($4.49, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats From Space ($14.99, scores 19).

More about Cross of the Dutchman

Critics scored it 59. Players sit 16 points higher at 75 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

The drop-off

52% start to 9% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

It's good, but quite short. Edit : Two playthrough, 6 hours and 100% achievements.
J'sRecommendedafter 4.1hFeb 2022Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
There are a lot of ways to judge a video game. You could judge it on whether or not the main character runs like a toddler with a load in their pants. You could judge it by how incredibly stupid the names of the characters are, like your children having names like rejected pokemon. You could also judge it by its bad art, terrible gameplay and complete lack of any redeeming qualities. It's hard to say, there's just...
Bucky O HareNot recommendedafter 4.8hDec 2022Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Cross of the Dutchman scores 37/100 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/384000/cross-of-the-dutchman
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+16
Critics59
Players75
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 372 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTriangle Studios
PublisherTriangle Studios
GenreAction
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31