Dressmaker

Dressmaker

BANGER · Strategy · 2026

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17

A BANGER at $14.99.

Cost per hourS
$0.76/hr
ReviewsS
99% of 16,784
Genre rank
Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Main story
19.6h
To 100%
40.1h 2.0x the story
Achievements
32

Price and sales

Sales
1 on record
Typical cut
10% off
Steam low
$13.49 September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $13.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
12,971 now
Recent reviews
98% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

82% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has gone on sale once in the 48 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 6 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It scores the same as PowerWash Simulator, which costs $24.99. This one is $14.99.

The math says it holds its tier up to $27.19.

More about Dressmaker

Of the 516 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,206 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 14 of 214 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 794 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 19.6 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 2.0 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 40 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.76/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 98% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds14 of 516 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

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out pattern pieces and sew them all together to make the dresses of your dreams - in this cozy crafting game, inspired by real dressmaking.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel UHD 630 or Better, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dressmaker scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4019220/dressmaker
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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 Oct 18, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCozy Lives
PublisherFree Lives
GenreStrategy
Released2026
Achievements32