DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $4.27/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $0.65 (78% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 89 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 78% ($0.65)
- Last discount ended
- 26 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Compatible with DirectX 9. Windows only.
DR LIVESEY: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, gentlemen, from now on, rom and death means the same thing for you.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.28, set in March 2023. 30 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hades ($6.24, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Dandy Ace ($19.99, scores 64).
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 9,500 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 76 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 21, 30 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
64% start to 2% 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
It's a fun roguelike with little player choice that starts out fun but horrifically overstays its welcome with skill-less grindy achievements. It's based on a Russian meme of the 1988 Russian "Treasure Island" which in itself is so bizarre that it warped my mind the way a spoon might warp jello. There's lots of weird bad electronic music and tons of items you pick up with no in-game explanation. No matter how well...
The words "rum" and "death" should mean the same thing to you. Do you understand?
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2181930/dr-livesey-rom-and-death-editionReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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