Dead Age
Fair · Roguelike · 2016
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.4990% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.77/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 5,610
- Genre rank
- Top 37% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 19.4h
- To 100%
- 69.7h 3.6x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 77
Price and sales
- Sales
- 105 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $0.89 October 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 55% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
67% start to 3% 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
It has been discounted 105 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG ($17.99, scores 40).
More about Dead Age
This site sampled 575 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 416 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 3.6 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 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
Quite rough around the edges but overall not a horrible game. Personally would recommend waiting until it goes on sale.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Having played this game twice (once, years ago on mobile, all the way to the end - and now, to some 90%, on my Steam Deck for some 30 hours) - here is my (re) view of it (hopefully helpful to others). :-) Would I recommend this game? Yes , I would strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoys its core elements: Zombie survival setting, turn-based combat, Party/camp management. If you like these things you can't go...
mixed feelings... - boring repetitive battles which takes most of the time (80%) - Game has so convoluting stats, but my curiosity pushed me on. To learn how this mess works. (rest 20% of playtime). - even on the easiest difficulty the game has a tight time limit on most quests. - finished 6 areas all the way to round 20 and the bosses are kind of lame (bullet sponges). In other tactical turn-based games you get a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / ATI Radeon HD 3600, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dead Age scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/363930/dead-ageReviews 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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.