Dead Pixels
Fair · Roguelike · 2012
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB Video RAM and at least Shader Model 2.0, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death Road to Canada ($14.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut ($9.99, scores 61).
This site sampled 232 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 834 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
36% start to 10% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Dead Pixels scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222980/dead-pixelsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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