Dead by Daylight
Skip · Multiplayer · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 944,430
- Genre rank
- Top 20% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 77.3h
- To 100%
- 800.2h 10.4x the story
- Finish
- 15% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 311
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $6.99 December 2022
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 75,947 now
- Recent reviews
- 71% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 75% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to <1% 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 85 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Aliens vs. Predator™ ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game ($39.99, scores 34).
More about Dead by Daylight
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 17,109 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 77.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 800, 10 times as much.
The rating rests on 944,430 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
game is a hot pile of donkey poop and goop and will ruin your mental health its pretty fun though
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
if you win people will hate you. f you loose people will hate you. i highly recommended
Enjoy getting matched every game with bots in solo q as a veteran player because dbd devs are shady and refuse to address and implement a proper mmr system.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
10 years of horror. 10 years of jump scares and close calls. 10 years of brutal sacrifices and thrilling escapes. Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DX11 Compatible GeForce GTX 460 1GB or AMD HD 6850 1GB, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dead by Daylight scores 48/100 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/381210/dead-by-daylightReviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.