DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
BANGER · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB card capable of shader 3.0, 174 MB of storage. Windows only.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 112 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 83 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yume Nikki (free, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats The Lar (free, scores 81).
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 17 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 583 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,635 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
28% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
3 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
Definitely showing its age, but I still had a good time with it. It had a unique atmosphere and enough charm to keep things interesting despite feeling a bit old-school now. I'm glad I played it and would still say it's worth giving a shot on sale.
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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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/395170/distraint-deluxe-editionThe 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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