Dealer's Life
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.67.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $1.41/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $6.67 BANGER line 50 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TCG Card Shop Simulator ($19.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Dealer's Life 2 ($14.99, scores 59).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I want to address something before I begin. Despite being a recommended review, this will not be positive. To explain why, it is simply that I am looking at it from the perspective of someone that 100% completed the game. The recommendation is for people that DO NOT want to do that. This game is very fun if you don't want completion. If you DO want completion, this game goes from good to absolutely AWFUL and you...
pretty boring for a tycoon game. didn't enjoy myself. liked the concept but it just wasn't fleshed out enough for me.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dealer's Life scores 78/100 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/982270/dealer-s-lifeReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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