The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% off
- Cost per hour
- $2.32/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 1,914
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 4.3h
- To 100%
- 10.9h 2.5x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 October 2019
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 50 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Charlie Murder ($9.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Salt and Sanctuary ($17.99, scores 75).
More about The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
This site sampled 359 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 335 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 11, 2.5 times as much.
At 4.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
good fun short hack and slash/metroidvania. Combo potential is great and very enjoyable, wouldnt say the game is very hard though its easy to predict enemy moves. Has a lot of replay value with difficulty, coop, etc. Good fun time, worth the money imo. 9/10
2 more reviews
Something of a small action masterpiece. The gameplay is super fast but somehow I never lost track of where I was, and while it's a little disappointing the story and stage progression is largely unchanged between the characters, the main weapons of each one were different enough to make at least two playthroughs worth it. The visuals look like a 90s comic book like the Crow mixed with something like Invader Zim and...
It's an old Xbox 360 and still one of my favorites. Love the inked artwork, hack and slash gameplay and the music is top notch. Short and not much to the story but still a gem if you're into this style.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268990/the-dishwasher-vampire-smileReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.