Deadlink
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 7.9h
- Value
- $3.16/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Get ready to put a sizable dent in the profits of megacorporations in Deadlink, a guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with roguelite elements. Your mission is to conduct covert ops while piloting a humanoid combat shell. And no, "covert" doesn’t mean "quiet."
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 $12.49, set in July 2024. It has been discounted 36 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Ziggurat ($14.99, scores 61).
80 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
10 of the 576 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 518 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 25, 3.2 times as much.
The drop-off
76% 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
11 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 dislike this game for one simple reason; every boss fight has a ton of additional enemy spawns constantly and that simply is not fun to me. The combat is good and the fights are fun, but I just cannot stand when 90% of a boss fight is spent killing additional spawns for health (Shields, in this case) and ammo. It makes for a very unfun fustercluck of an experience. If that's your thing, you'd probably love the...
The movement and gunplay is awesome! But the game only contains 4 levels and gets very grindy to unlock the meta components needed to scale into the later 2 levels. Then the content just... runs out. It also looks like the devs have left a few bugs hanging in what will probably be the final build of this game, like the stuttering. Limited classes and upgrades also ensure this roguelike won't stay long in anyone's...
Probably best casual FPS rougelite I've played so far. Gameplay loop is addictive and amazing. The modification and upgrades system is super fun and engaging and the whole game is just screaming fun. I think one of the most underrated rougelites aroud. P.S. I don't know how I played it only 27 hours on it (I got all the upgrades and I finished a run multiple time) but OK.
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.
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Deadlink scores 74/100 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/1676130/deadlinkThe 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 Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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