Dead Space (2008)
Fair · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 7.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.39. That was June 2015. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 78 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 60 percent off still sits 82 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space™ 2 ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Space ($14.99, scores 53).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 558 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 2,740 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Players
43 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Dead Space (2008) scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17470/dead-space-2008The 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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