Dragon Is Dead
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 704 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 5 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Dragon is Dead is a 2D dark fantasy roguelite with hack-and-slash combat and unlockable classes. Build class skill trees, slot runes, and chase Legendary and Mythic loot through corrupted stages.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 Gts / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 12 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Boneraiser Minions ($4.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Spellbook Demonslayers ($4.99, scores 31).
More about Dragon Is Dead
6 of the 461 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
63% start to 4% 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
This is a great game if you want an action style RPG / roguelite hybrid that plays like diablo 3 and skul the hero slayer had a baby. It did borrow a ton from the Diablo mechanics in that there are legendary items that affect your skills, you can extract these later on I think as well. There is also a mythic random gear crafting part of this as well along with rifts + difficulty increases if you want them. Their...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Alright, this is really amazing that is has some elements that is related to the adventure castlevania with the gothic style into it... and also it has some elements that is like it can be revived again and it changes some of its stories... the inventory, equipments, skill tree is also one of the unique game style... the only thing that is really limited to it is it has limited characters to play... i do not know if...
It's full of game breaking bugs , they fix that and i might well recommend it :3
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dragon Is Dead scores 37/100 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/2803280/dragon-is-deadReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.