Dead Pixels

Dead Pixels

Fair · Roguelike · 2012

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 5 of 8 sales

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$1.50/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 2,425
Genre rank
Top 24% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reach, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
2h
To 100%
14.7h 7.3x the story
Finish
10% reach the ending
Achievements
30

Price and sales

Sales
58 on record
Typical cut
67% off
Steam low
$0.59 June 2017
Sale every
51d last October 2026
All-time low $0.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
91% of its genre
Better reviewed
74% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

36% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 58 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 67 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 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).

More about Dead Pixels

This site sampled 233 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 833 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 15, 7.3 times as much.

At 2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 233 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I originally played this game on the Xbox 360 when indie games were available on the 360 marketplace back in the day as a kid. And I honestly thought I would never be able to play it again, but to my absolute fortune I find its been archived and released on steam and I couldnt be happier with my expierence. Really addicting, satisfying mechanics and roguelike elements and eons of replayability all for a whopping 3...
a2003panasonicdvdplayerRecommendedafter 5.6hMay 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
достаточно сложная при кажущейся простоте игра, было много веселых ранов - рекомендую!
Mr.VladiRecommendedafter 9.8hDec 2025Read on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dead Pixels scores 65/100 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/222980/dead-pixels
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCSR-Studios
PublisherCSR-Studios
GenreRoguelike
Released2012
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30