Dead Effect
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.35/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 3,783
- Critics
- 59 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 56% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.7h
- To 100%
- 13.5h 3.6x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 61
Price and sales
- Sales
- 115 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 March 2016
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 36% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
115 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Dead Effect 2 ($11.99, scores 40) outscores it, and so does Dead Effect 2 VR ($24.99, scores 59). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Dead Effect
59 from critics against 73 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 475 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 1,030 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.7 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 3.6 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Silly little game with decent gunplay and over the top voice acting that made the journey for me entertaining till the end credits. I like the idea of every map have a certain amount of achievements as extra side objects.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 8800 GTX | Radeon HD 4770, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Dead Effect scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/286040/dead-effectReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.