Dead by Daylight
Skip · Multiplayer · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 79.6h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.99. That was December 2022. It has been discounted 83 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Aliens vs. Predator™ ($14.99, scores 70) and Depth ($19.99, scores 72) both outscore it.
2 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 17,054 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 79.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 797, 10 times as much.
It came out 10 years ago and 44.9K were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
63% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
44.9K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I was reading chat and accidentally clicked the negative review, I think steam should take BHVR example and make it easier for streamers to click the right buttons while we read chat thank you.
As of September 2nd 2026 Denuvo Anti-Cheat has been "temporarily" added in the game as a trial run with predictably massive issues, eats RAM, can cause BSOD or brick your PC do not download or patch until Denuvo has been completely removed "Don't fix what isn't broken"
great game but filled with a bunch of manbabies who will dox u and report u just for being good at the game
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Dead by Daylight scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/381210/dead-by-daylightThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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