LEGO® DC Super-Villains

LEGO® DC Super-Villains

Worth it · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $31.93.

Length
10.4h
Value
$3.85/hr
Reviews
91% positive
It needs 20% off ($31.93) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
41.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.85
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$39.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
8,242 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
76
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon R9 280X or GTX 660 Ti, 16 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

It's good to be bad… Embark on an all-new DC/LEGO® adventure by becoming the best villain the universe has seen. Players will create and play as an all-new super-villain throughout the game, unleashing mischievous antics and wreaking havoc in an action-packed story.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~42h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 10h main story
Engagement28% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.85/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds12 of 737 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was November 2022. 71 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $31.93, a level the record has reached 71 times.

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga ($49.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes 2 ($19.99, scores 73).

The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 12 of the 737 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 378 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 10.4 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 4.0 times as long.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

90% start to 28% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

This game is charming at first. The custom character being included in the story is very cool, but once you finish the story, all the charm wears off. This is one of the most boring lego game 100% grinds I've ever done. It isn't helped by the fact that this game is fairly glitchy, so much so that a glitch completely locked me out of 100%ing my save file. I'm stuck at 99.7% and the only way to get the last 4...
The ShamanNot recommendedafter 37h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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LEGO® DC Super-Villains scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/829110/lego-dc-super-villains
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+15
Critics
76
Players
91
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 8,242 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTT Games
PublisherWarner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2018
Achievements75