Night of the Dead
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 23.2h
- Value
- $1.29/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Intel Arc A380 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was March 2026. 58 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 7 Days to Die ($44.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats DeadPoly ($9.99, scores 35).
23 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 601 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,067 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
69% start to <1% 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
What players say
SIX YEARS. THIS GAME HAS BEEN OUT SIX YEARS AND I CAN NOT. holy MOLEY! i place two guard towers at the front of my base one on the left side of the stair case, and one on the right side of the staircase, these guard towers come with a very very very small wall of spikes that protect it from zombies trying to swat it and destroy it. THIS NPC KEEPS TRYING TO WALK UP THE STAIRS AND KEEPS RUNNING INTO THE SPIKES. i have...
Zombie survival crafting is one of my favorite genres and I really wanted to like this game, but after playing for 108 hours I regret buying it. The game feels empty and no story ever really develops. I'm probably not going to buy "early access" games anymore because they just seem like a scam.
This "company" make a half baked game, sells as much as they can, release a 1.0 unpolished version and then abandon it, too bad we cant refund on definitely cashgrab cases, this game is not bad, but is unpolished, laggy and full of bugs, also it is abandoned as they already moved to the next scam, never buy a game from Jackto Studios, you will feel robbed
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Cite this score
Night of the Dead scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1377380/night-of-the-deadReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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