Dead of Darkness
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.7h 20h to 100%
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 225 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.29 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last cut ended yesterday.
- 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
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7600 GT (256 MB), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, IMSCARED ($3.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Decarnation ($14.99, scores 59).
More about Dead of Darkness
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 205 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
79% start to 28% 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
What players say
Another Resident Evil clone that thinks excessive backtracking and finding keys is what makes RE so good. All of the other negative reviews state a common problem, there's no pause in any of the menus' outside of the pause menu. This makes you take hits unnecessarily when you're trying to check your map, because each area has 10 different rooms per hallway, using a key to open a door, or even trying to reload your...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The art isn't very good, the voice actors aren't very good - the game isn't very good. The cistern, the "trapped in your mind" section, the overall plot and writing. Not great.
Worth the price. I have always wanted to play a survival horror pixel games (just missing and RPG survival horror now), and lives up to it. There are some recurring themes from big sagas, but somehow manages to have something original and engaging. Sequel? I believe this game have everything to set up a new series, all my best wishes to the devs if that is what they are aiming for. Downsides: I would say are that a...
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Cite this score
Dead of Darkness scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2157210/dead-of-darknessReviews 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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.