Escape Dead Island
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 7, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 6.3h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon HD 5450 (1 GB) or GeForce GT 430 (1 GB), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2022. 94 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Days Gone ($39.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats How To Survive: Third Person Standalone ($9.99, scores 2).
The press gave it 52; the people who bought it give it 61 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 551 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
6.3 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
At 6.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
70% start to 6% 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
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Why did i ever let this gem sit in my library for 8+ years before checking it out? A bit clunky here and there but well worth a playthrough
You know how it goes - no halo, no grace, Our hero's no saint in this sun-bleached place. A spoiled young scion with something to prove, On an island where corpses have started to move. Friends in distress, or so he believes, A chance to be more than the role he receives. To earn father's nod, that distant acclaim - Yet something runs deeper… not all is the same. There's dread in the cracks, a whisper, a bend, A...
First spin-off in the Dead Island series that tries to change the format to a more linear narrative-driven third-person stealth action. After hearing the negative buzz and seeing the mixed reviews, I expected total, unadulterated garbage, but I was pleasantly surprised by the narrative aspects and decent gameplay. Don't get me wrong, this isn't some secret hidden gem, and I wouldn't recommend it to most people...
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Cite this score
Escape Dead Island scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/226560/escape-dead-islandReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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