Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU that supports Shader Model 3.0, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
Get ready for some seriously stylish action from renowned designer SUDA51. In this exclusive version for PC, players will be slicing, dicing, and shooting as the suave executioner Mondo Zappa. Prepare for the thrill of love and kill in KILLER IS DEAD!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2022. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 94 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 45 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DmC: Devil May Cry ($29.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Trek to Yomi ($19.99, scores 25).
This site sampled 626 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 836 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.2 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 3.6 times as long.
The drop-off
69% start to 3% 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
9 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Game keeps crashing after the boss of episode 6. I tested if it was caused by any device that might affect the game (controller, tv, any other connected harddrive), checked if any program might be interfering with the game (i was using DS4 to read my PS4 controller as an Xbox controller and later changed the configurations on steam), changed the line in the "KidEgine.ini" based on a post from reddit of a person with...
Do not buy this ♥♥♥ port, even if you manage to get the game running you will still be hit with crashes and are forced to play on 30 fps. even if you forget about that the gameplay is very spammy and gets boring quickly, take my advice and don't buy this.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/261110/killer-is-dead-nightmare-editionThe 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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