Dead Space (2008)
Worth it · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9960% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.82/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 29,385
- Critics
- 87 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11h
- To 100%
- 20.2h 1.8x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.39 June 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 34 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $9.09 BANGER line 78 times.
Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games closest to it, Dead Space™ 2 ($19.99, scores 69) and Dead Space ($59.99, scores 53) both come in lower.
More about Dead Space (2008)
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 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,169 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, and at 11 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Imagine making the beacon segment and thinking this game is okay to sell. Play the remake instead.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
At this time with the PIF owning >90% of EA and their aggressive push towards AI, this company can not be trusted. Andrew Wilson, you are the scum of the Earth.
Dead Space cant handle FPS over 60. There are bugs, invisible walls, or mouse sensitivity issues. You must select 60Hz settings in the game and activate Vsync. (It fixed it for me) A guide will help if necessary. I dont think i need to say much more about Dead Space. Simply a great game. The gameplay and game world are uniquely good. Great horror and gore elements. Of course the graphic is outdated, but thats not a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 7.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dead Space (2008) scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17470/dead-space-2008Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.