Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
BANGER · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 22h
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible video card (integrated or dedicated with min 512MB memory), 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 82 in the 7 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 75 percent off still sits 150 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 73. The current cut is what makes it a 88.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Pathologic 2 ($34.99, scores 78) and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire ($19.99, scores 79).
The math says it holds its tier up to $19.89, and you are being asked for $9.99.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 22-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 4,856 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 7 years ago and 918 were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
33% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 22-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
918 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
I do not understand the politics of this game, but I do understand being a fat chud drunk trying to hold onto something that wants to be let go. I also understand that a friend can make being a fat chud drunk a lot easier. This game will make you feel things. I think about it a whole lot. 10/10
I want to return to this game when I'm sad to remember, that life's go on and everything could change several times. 10 Revashol Revolution out of 10
One of the greatest games of all time. Comrade Du Bois would insist that the game needs to be pirated if we ever intend to build .0002% of communism!!!
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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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut scores 88/100 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/632470/disco-elysium-the-final-cutThe 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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