Dead Estate
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB) or equivalent, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cornered with nowhere else to turn, can you escape the monster-filled mansion? Dead Estate is a gory, fast-paced, challenging roguelike shooter with a heavy emphasis on horror.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.09, set in October 2025. It has been discounted 40 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Star of Providence ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Super Amazing Wagon Adventure ($2.99, scores 76).
This site sampled 584 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 853 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 60, 18 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 34% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I cannot believe how uderrated this game is. Compared to isaac, almost no one knows about it. It really breaks my heart, seeing how charming it is and how much love has been put into it. It has a lot of variety and a lot of content to see, the devs even made all the major expansions free unlike a certain someone. This game is trully amazing and better then isaac in some places, especially if you like horror too. I...
Dead Estate is genuinely one of the best roguelike games of all time. It's so peak and fun and I can't believe how much content there is now. I loved completeing it fully although some achievements are ass (Looking at you Anya). Also big boobie everywhere is a big bonus. But yea, a bargain at twice the price, can't wait for a sequel!
Twinstick action shooty pew pew roguelite not entirely unlike something like Isaac or Enter the Gungeon. Unfortunately, if you haven't played EtG yet, you've no real reason to choose Dead Estate over it, especially considering how similarly priced the two games are. I'd say the only thing Dead Estate does better is its great variety of run modifiers. Dead Estate also comes with a Resident Evil-like game mode called...
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Cite this score
Dead Estate scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1484720/dead-estateReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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