A discount percentage doesn't tell you if a deal is actually good
"50% off" sounds like a good deal — but if that game is discounted 70% every couple of months, 50% off is actually below average. And a game that never goes on sale might be a genuinely rare opportunity at just 20% off. A raw discount percentage can't tell the difference. Deal Score can, because it looks at the game's full price history, not just today's sticker.
Every game on PlatPrices with enough tracked sale history gets a Deal Score from 0 to 100. It weighs how the current price compares to everything we've recorded for that game — how close it is to the lowest price ever seen, and how the current discount stacks up against that game's typical sale pattern — into one number.
Scores also carry a confidence rating. A game we've watched through dozens of sales over a long period gets a high-confidence score; a newly-released game with only one or two recorded sales gets a lower-confidence one — so you always know how much history is actually behind the number, not just the number itself.
Deal Score, the buy-or-wait verdict, typical discount depth, sale cadence and the best month to buy all live together on each game's full price analysis page — open any game and click "See the full price analysis" to view it for that title.
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Sign up free →- Is a higher Deal Score always better?
- Yes — a higher score means the current price is closer to the best price we have ever tracked for that game, relative to how it normally sells. A near-100 score means you are looking at (or very close to) an all-time low.
- Why don't I see a number on every game card?
- The full Deal Score, confidence rating and buy/wait verdict live on each game's full price analysis page so we can show the complete picture — sale cadence, typical discount depth, and the best month to buy — in one place instead of a bare number that needs context.
- What does "confidence" mean?
- Deal Score needs price history to be meaningful. A game we have tracked through many sales over a long period gets a high-confidence score; a game with little or patchy history gets a lower-confidence one, so you know how much to trust the number.
- Is Deal Score the same as "% off"?
- No. A 50% discount can be an average sale for a game that is discounted 70% every month, or a genuine standout for a game that almost never goes on sale. Deal Score accounts for that history instead of just looking at the discount percentage.
