They Don't Sleep
Worth it · Roguelike · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.8h 6.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 218 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Eat, sleep, and shoot zombies in this survival simulator with roguelite elements. Battle to survive until you die and do it all over again. Level up your skills and keep your child alive as you fight to escape your wintry hell.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2gb Video card with OpenGL 3.3 support, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death Road to Canada ($2.24, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Over 9000 Zombies! ($2.99, scores 63).
More about They Don't Sleep
None of the 213 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 6, 3.4 times as much.
The drop-off
86% start to 8% 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
What players say
I don't know how I didn't find this game until now! For a zombie game enthusiast, this is a little diamond of a game. Even though I've done (almost) all achievements, I find myself going back and playing more. It does exactly what it came in to do, and doesn't overstay it's welcome by being too long. Consider me addicted. Edit to add: I just went and looked, and this is the only game this dev/studio has done! I'm...
1 more review
Honestly, at a first glance I would never thought I'll enjoy a game like this. I'm not a huge zombie person or into roguelite games, but jeez this game was really a hidden gem. The gameplay loop is insanely fun, love the art style, and all the mechanics felt nice. I would honestly have spent a lot more on this game if it costed more just for the gameplay loop alone. 10/10 - Definitely an unexpected, lovely short...
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Cite this score
They Don't Sleep scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2009380/they-don-t-sleepReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.