Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs

Steam Deck Unsupported

United Front Games · Open World

Yes, worth playing.

You can't buy it on Steam right now.

94%
Very Positive
17k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 151 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 56 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 17k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise30% are divided20% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
- Story: -Though I found it interesting and fun, it's still rather predictable and rather cliche.
151 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
+ Excellent open-world action gameplay, delivering good variety of activities with mostly meaningful rewards.
57 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
+ Nice Graphics: -I like the visuals but you can clearly tell it was developed with consoles in mind.
56 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Audio is pretty good with decent soundtrack and very good voice actors.
30 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
It ran consistently over 100 FPS for me on a GTX 1080, so that HD texture pack would have been great, and I can tell you with confidence that this game is VERY well optimized.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters151 reviews
Gameplay57 reviews
Graphics56 reviews
Audio30 reviews
Optimization6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat95 reviews
98%
Difficulty12 reviews
100%
Controls8 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs19 reviews
74%
Crashes14 reviews
64%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
94%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
59
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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