SurrounDead
Worth it · Shooter · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99.
- Length
- 18.8h
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.79, set in December 2024. It has been discounted 28 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats HumanitZ ($19.99, scores 39).
10 of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,801 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 18.8 hours; clearing it takes 60, which is 3.2 times the campaign.
4 years after release it still had 1.9K people in it at once.
The drop-off
96% 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
Players
1,870 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I recommend this game even though the Dev is on hiatus (last community hub update 6/2/26). When the Dev took a break from the game, so did I. I am presently TOUCHING GRASS since it is Summer. Give it a try (both the game and the grass part). Wishing the Dev well! Please come back when refreshed and do more great things. Folks with 10-20 hours played in game need to refrain from negative feedback. I would encourage...
Third person zombie survival open world with base building in early access. No story, No quests, No BS. Just chill music, zombies, and plenty of depth in exploration, crafting, and weapons. Pick this up for a chill night while trying to not die from Zombies, Bandits, or your own reckless abandon.
This game is getting up there with cube world/Trove for me TBH getting burnt out of companies adding JUST enough to their games to keep you engaged and then they rug pull. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNTIL MORE UPDATES ITS BEEN 13 MONTHS
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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SurrounDead scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1645820/surroundeadThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Jul 31, price as of Sep 23.
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