The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2017
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was October 2019. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crawl ($14.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Salt and Sanctuary ($17.99, scores 75).
This site sampled 359 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 334 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268990/the-dishwasher-vampire-smileThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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