- Story: 159 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 146 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 142 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 80k player reviews · updated
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Sleeping Dogs fits well into this line of publishing because it's a fantastic narrative, with solid gameplay, and it secretly belongs to its own franchise in True Crime.
From a gameplay perspective, the combat feels satisfying and brutal, and the city is fun to explore.
The gameplay of Sleeping Dogs is really phenomenal, combat isn't very responsive on my system, which is strange because I definitely played it on PC around 2014-2015 and it felt a lot smoother, I assume this is somewhat a compatibility issue as the game ages.
The Definitive Edition enhances visuals, improves lighting, and includes all previously released DLC.
The game also has great soundtrack with being able to listen to a lot of songs on the radio with different radio stations while in cars and boats.
Gunplay is severely more lacking, but level design is great that gameplay sections are well balanced before they become overwhelmed by time or difficulty.
+2 more players loved
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What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- Single-player
Controller
- Full controller support
Store features
- Family Sharing
- Remote Play on TV
- Remote Play on Tablet
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- Steam Leaderboards
Platforms
- Windows
- macOS
Valve device support
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The lowest we've tracked is $2.99.
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