DUSK
BANGER · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GT Or Equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 60 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 75. The current cut is what makes it a 92.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM + DOOM II ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Quake II ($9.99, scores 83).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $11.64. It costs $7.99.
The press gave it 88; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 12 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 30 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 2,431 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.5 hours; clearing it takes 17, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
49% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
36 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
Game is solid One thing that I dislike though is the amount of secrets, sometimes it felt like I missed out on half of the game since I didn't even unlock a quarter of the achievements on my two playthroughs
DUSK is a retro style first person shooter. This 90s style game should be popular with its fast pace typical of actions shooters. The game has some rats running around to distinguish this from other shooters. The number of secrets tends to be a problem for some gamers. Played this on my Dell Precision 3480 with Arc Xe graphics and RTX A500 discrete graphics. Game is very playable.
The game is a shooter heavily inspired by Quake, and a bit by Doom and Heretic. But something feels missing, I just don't know how to put it into words. Anyway, if you're planning to play it, I highly recommend changing the default settings because the camera effects are terrible they actually made me nauseous at one point. Go to the settings, and under the 'Feels' tab, turn off these three: 'Weapon Sway', 'Camera...
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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DUSK scores 92/100 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/519860/duskThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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