Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
Worth it · Short indie · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.83.
- Length
- 7.3h
- Value
- $2.05/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Yes, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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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
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 77 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. No sale on record has reached $7.83, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It scores the same as Tetris® Effect: Connected, which costs $39.99. This one is $14.99.
This site sampled 316 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 151 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 1% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3950130/database-detective-minor-crimes-divisionReviews 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 Aug 5, price as of Oct 1.
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