Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Worth it · RPG · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$9.9975% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.69/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 132,560
Critics
97 players 4 lower
Genre rank
Top 4% RPG

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 47% off ($21.38) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
23.7h
To 100%
48.4h 2.0x the story
Achievements
45

Price and sales

Sales
83 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.99 June 2024
Sale every
30d last October 2026
Lowest now $7.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1,697 now
Recent reviews
92% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

33% start to <1% 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

Across all 83 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $21.38. The record reaches that level 54 times.

Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pathologic 2 ($34.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Paradise Killer ($19.99, scores 72).

More about Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 4,872 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 23.7 hours; clearing it takes 48, which is 2.0 times the campaign.

The rating rests on 132,560 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.69/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds16 of 800 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

What players say

If you're looking for an action game, turn around. Disco Elysium is basically a tabletop RPG where your biggest enemy is your own apocalyptic hangover. You play as a detective whose brain is so fried he forgot his own name, and instead of a standard skill tree, you level up 24 different voices in your head that constantly argue with each other. Min-max your physical stats and you can roundhouse kick a racist...
tempted_Recommendedafter 6175h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I honestly don't like this kind of dialogue-heavy game. Even in the dozens of RPGs I've played, I rarely paid that much attention to dialogue. Partly because some games subject you to endless walls of text, and partly because, when it comes to role-playing, the characters I create tend to have this attitude of, "Something happened in the world? Cool. Not my problem." But Disco Elysium... Wow. Just wow. Good lord. I...
Sadaharu_TRRecommendedafter 34h84 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Disco Elysium is a rare game that trusts its audience to read, think, and endure discomfort. It repays that trust with writing that's among the best the medium has to offer, a testament to video games as literature.
HanRecommendedafter 37h14 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

Cite this score

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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/632470/disco-elysium-the-final-cut
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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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-4
Critics97
Players93
Metacritic critics · 132,560 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperZA/UM
PublisherZA/UM
GenreRPG
Released2019
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45