DEATH NOTE Killer Within

DEATH NOTE Killer Within

Fair · Multiplayer · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.3h
Value
$7.68/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
35% ($6.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
50% ($4.99)
Last discount ended
28 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.3h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.68
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
2,744 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon R9 280X, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

DEATH NOTE Killer Within is an online social deduction game for up to 10 players. Players will be split into two teams with different objectives. To win the game, players will need to figure out each other’s identities and either eliminate L who threatens Kira's power or seize the Death Note.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Refunds36 of 599 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Value$7.69/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length1.3 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2025. 14 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 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 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Project Winter ($9.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Among Us 3D: VR ($9.99, scores 32).

36 of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 88 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 36 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 405 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

73% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

18 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

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Izuminn_Recommendedafter 2.1h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Most fun gimmick for a social deduction game. Much more to it than just pointing fingers and hoping for the best. Voting a person out does not immediately remove them from the game, but instead has them chained to a person of L's choosing. There is space for mind-games and it's pretty cool. Runs like a charm, has a few notable bugs that appear every now and again (microphone not working, multiples of a unique role...
RahkamestariRecommendedafter 47hAug 2026Read on Steam
despite this game being abandoned by the developers, i highly recommend playing it with a group of friends over any other social deduction game! especially if you like death note! it feels like a lot of care went into this game, the animations, 3d models & references are genuinely great! the game also never feels repetitive to me, its sad to see bandai abandoning it like this and hackers ruining online lobbies, but...
krumrollRecommendedafter 66hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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DEATH NOTE Killer Within scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2213190/death-note-killer-within
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperGrounding Inc.
PublisherBandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
GenreMultiplayer
Released2024
Achievements40