The Deadseat
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.1h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.72/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 669 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Modern Graphics Card (Vulkan Support Required), 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 12 discounts in the 17 months tracked, the median cut is 34 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, IMSCARED ($3.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54).
More about The Deadseat
This site sampled 313 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 374 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 62 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 4, 3.6 times as much.
The drop-off
96% start to 72% finishA 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
What players say
The Indie horror game that CoryxKenshin played it is good and I liked it. I had no issues with it. It's a horror game and I like simple plain and simple
1 more review
The Deadseat is a tightly focused psychological survival-horror game that turns the backseat of a moving car into an unexpectedly effective nightmare. Developed and published by Curious Fox Sox, it places the player in the vulnerable position of a child traveling home with arguing parents. Instead of relying on sprawling locations, elaborate combat systems, or constant exploration, the game deliberately confines the...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Deadseat scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3667230/the-deadseatReviews 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.