Deadlight
Fair · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.19. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.80/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 12,779
- Critics
- 78 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4h
- To 100%
- 8h 2.0x the story
- Finish
- 32% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 December 2014
- Sale every
- 44d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 32% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Final Station ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Deadlight: Director's Cut ($11.99, scores 29).
More about Deadlight
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 2 of the 650 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,169 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.0 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Decent platformer. Can be frustrating until you get the timing right for some portions.
1 more review, not recommended
This game just felt a bit like a chore to play with a really disappointing payoff, you can give it a try but I wouldn't be surprised if you get disappointed too.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader model 3.0 support, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Deadlight scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/211400/deadlightReviews 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 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.