DeadCore

DeadCore

Fair · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.1h
Value
$2.44/hr
Reviews
85% positive
It needs 53% off ($4.74) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
12.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.44
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
2,043 reviews, as of Sep 20
Metacritic
78
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT with 512 Mo RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3850 with 512 Mo RAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement3% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.44/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length4.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 301 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 31 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell ($14.99, scores 90) and Cyber Hook ($14.99, scores 69) both outscore it.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 301 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 436 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 4.1 hours; clearing it takes 13, which is 3.1 times the campaign.

The drop-off

87% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

What players say

Game is outdated! It's a good game in its own right but I STRONGLY RECCOMEND YOU GET THE DEADCORE: REDUX INSTEAD. The control mapping is broken now -w-
RiverNoodlRecommendedafter 3.3hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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DeadCore scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/284460/deadcore
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Reviews 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 20, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+7
Critics
78
Players
85
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,043 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer5 Bits Games
Publisher5 Bits Games
GenreShooter
Released2014
Achievements29