Dead State: Reanimated
Skip · RPG · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 42h
- Value
- $0.48/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT / ATI Radeon HD 7290 (512 Mb) or better, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
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 $4.99, set in June 2016. It has been discounted 44 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Hard West ($19.99, scores 35).
None of the 444 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
42 hours to finish it, 133 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
36% 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
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
8.5/10 flawed masterpiece. so flawed, so masterpiece. wish the devs would make something else but looks like they moved on. here this game sits. it belongs to the ages.
Dead State: Reanimated is a turn-based survival RPG that approaches the zombie apocalypse with an emphasis on strategy, resource management, and the human cost of survival rather than relentless action. Developed by DoubleBear Productions in collaboration with Iron Tower Studio and published by DoubleBear Productions, the game casts players as the leader of a group of survivors seeking refuge in an abandoned school...
Garbage. Zombies magically spawn behind you right when you downed an enemy human looter only to turn him into another zombie. Something about this game just doesn't sit right. Combat feels wonky as hell. Not for me.
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Cite this score
Dead State: Reanimated scores 36/100 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/239840/dead-state-reanimatedReviews 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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