Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Fair · RPG · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 1,244
- Critics
- 75 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.4h
- To 100%
- 15.1h 1.2x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 January 2013
- Sale every
- 42d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 86 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 12 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dreamfall Chapters ($24.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($15.99, scores 47).
More about Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
75 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2 of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
NUTS this game was ahead of its time, I got the cd as a present when I was around 13? I was brainless to proceed. Never played it , decided I should now. I'm flabbergasted, Very good plot I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. I will need to dig in those extras soon and figure it out. WHAT A PLOT BRUH, It would be a great movie too, Someone fund it ;D (People complain the gameplay was too easy, yes okay, enjoyed the story more...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Dreamfall was amazing. Better than the original The Longest Journey (TLJ). To be fair, TLJ is old and just didn't have enough technology to achieve what it wanted, it was extremely ambitious in for its age. Thus Dreamfall has the graphics to show more cinematographic scenes which TLJ clearly wanted to (and tried). The gameplay, though, is way worse than in TLJ, because it is too easy, there's no difficulty in any...
The creator of the series loves feminism a bit too much to the detriment of the story being "believable". Let me explain. So, there's an oppressive force in the game that occupied the city of Arcadia, and rules with iron fist: mass incarcerations, executions, suppression, segregation, all the classics. It's a typical dictatorship, with islamic flavor added to it, and you know what kind of people rule over countries...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6300/dreamfall-the-longest-journeyReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.