Dread X Collection
Skip · Action · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 5.2h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.34/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 646 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or MD Radeon 6870 HD Series, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 38 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 76 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Don't Be Afraid ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47).
More about Dread X Collection
None of the 396 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
50% start to 16% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Since this game is a collection of 10 small games. I'm going to talk about each one of them individually and then give my final opinion. The order of the games is the order I played them: Hand of Doom This didn't look like an appealing game initially with the old-school style it has (I'm not nostalgic towards that). But the game surprised me in a pleasant way. I liked how the spells were used. I would have never...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Well, it certainly is what it is advertised at. Which is to say, a bunch of very, very rough proofs of concept for various spooky games, and even though they have pretenses of further development, it's clear they all have a long way to go. Hand of Doom and Summer Night are easily the best ones, if only because they have the closest thing to a concrete sense of polish out of the entire collection. Shatter is pretty...
Dread X Collection, a fascinating concept serving mediocrity Dread X Collection as a concept is fascinating. Giving multiple horror developers limited time to create their own small work of horror immediately intrigued me. What you get is ten completely unrelated short experiences packaged together as one. One off games, proof of concepts, weird experiments, everything is here. The Pay Is Nice, psychological...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dread X Collection scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1296510/dread-x-collectionReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.