The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.13/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 4,131
- Genre rank
- Top 36% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.9h
- To 100%
- 22.3h 5.7x the story
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 39 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
71% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
39 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blue Estate The Game ($12.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake ($24.99, scores 15).
More about The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
This site sampled 427 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 830 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
3.9 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
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
What players say
NOT THE ORIGINAL HOUSE/TYPING OF THE DEAD! a long time ago I foolishly purchased thinking it was. That being said, this game is very much like the original, but with much more adult themes. I suggest if you're looking to grab it that you wait for it to be on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience! This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 6450, NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 or Intel Integrated Graphics HD 3000, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill scores 53/100 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/246580/the-typing-of-the-dead-overkillReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.