Dead Horde
Skip · Action · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 5.8h 15.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews
- 34% of 653 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
As a survivor of the mutant virus, make your way through the city and wipe out the hordes of flesh eating mutants. Teamwork is the key to survive the DEAD HORDE...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 114 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Nation Red ($2.99, scores 77) and Miscreated ($20.09, scores 11) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Dead Horde
Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 274 reviews written there were positive, against 34 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.8 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 2.7 times as long.
The drop-off
88% 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
What players say
SUPER satisfying!! I've read all the bad reviews about this game, and for modern game expectations, they have make very good points, BUT this game is like a throwback to a much early era of gaming, and what does it for me is how satisfying it is to just shoot the zombies. Yes this game should be really cheap, around £3 max would be my recommended price, more than that it's expensive for what it is. I love it, and...
2 more reviews
Actually not that bad of a game. Janky, yes but not horrible. The Gary plane crash game was worse. The aiming is terrible and you do end up backpedaling and you basically just hold click and pray you hit since the aiming doesn't exactly work. Still fun though. Not deserving of its mostly negative reviews. Sale? definitely. Full price? Maybe, if you know you like janky ass games that are kinda fun.
Its really not as bad as people say. Its not "great" or even "good". Its kind of a generic twin stick style shooter from another era. Buy it for a buck or three and play it for a few hours and it pays for itself.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dead Horde scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/27940/dead-hordeReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.