Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Fair · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.7h 9.7h to 100%
Value
$0.57/hr
Reviews
83% of 454 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

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Value$0.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement22% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 193 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

A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a wildly idiotic journey!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, Nvidia or ATI card with at least 256MB VRAM, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 102 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42).

More about Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

35% start to 22% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Probably the cheesiest, most unserious point and click adventure game ever made. Also if you have a Steam Deck, you can also play it on the toilet.
realkrazyxlRecommendedafter 8.5h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I got this game cheap in a sale, deciding to give it a try. And was surprised by how much I had a really good time! I got really into finding the cookies and exploring every scene. I thought the lack of voice acting would bother me, but it didn't. I had fun with the mini games. And I found the story weird but fun. (I set toilet humour to mid at the start of the game and that level seemed absolutely fine to me.) The...
DizRecommendedafter 7.3hOct 2025Read on Steam
You can try playing. Although I didn't really like it. The drawing style is a bit odd, and the actions aren't always obvious. But at least you can play at the fair
☪🖤♠ BLover ♠🖤☪Not recommendedafter 5.8hMay 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/451570/demetrios-the-big-cynical-adventure
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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+11
Critics72
Players83
Metacritic critics · 454 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCOWCAT
PublisherCOWCAT
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements37