Dustforce DX
Worth it · Action · 2012
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 29.7h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card with Shader Model 2.0 support, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Take control of a nimble janitor to rid the world of dust and debris.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was October 2014. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 14 years tracked, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 15 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Meat Boy ($14.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Electronic Super Joy ($7.99, scores 60).
Critics scored it 79. Players sit 9 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 307 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 220 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
9 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
"dustforce" is a really incredible precision platformer. i bought it on sale for 5 dollars and i already feel like i got my money's worth. if you like celeste or meat boy this is a must buy. that being said, if you're buying this game in 2026 there is one thing you need to know: !!! IMPORTANT !!! If you are like me, and playing on a 144hz monitor and are using an x-input controller, your dash is not going to...
100% recommend this game for one reason: soundtrack. This game is 14 years old and I still regularly listen to the soundtrack by Lifeformed. It's fantastic. Came for the janitorial work, stayed for the OST.
Strict controls but still a very well designed movement system and really nicely designed levels for different skill levels. Only active negative is how hard I think it becomes at some point to experiment with the characters, though I assume even further along it becomes easier again when you know how to compensate for it.
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Dustforce DX scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/65300/dustforce-dxThe 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 5, price as of Sep 24.
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