Dead Island Definitive Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe 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
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.30/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 28,549
- Genre rank
- Top 30% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.4h
- To 100%
- 50.9h 3.3x the story
- Achievements
- 57
Price and sales
- Sales
- 95 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 236 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 59% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
45% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 95 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 80 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 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ($14.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 26).
More about Dead Island Definitive Edition
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 3,366 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.4 hours; clearing it takes 51, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
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
Inferior to the original game, but original game isn't worth paying $60 for a key to have a slightly improved experience.
2 more reviews
i dont think its the nostalgia glasses but i genuinely do find this and riptide fun. not necessarily the best gameplay but satisfying most of the time. i couldnt tell you sh*t about the story even though ive played it a few times.
Muito bom, vale a pena 100%! Jogo classico de zumbi, obrigatório para quem gosta do genero. Este jogo é o Dying Light sem parkour! Inclusive não conhecidentemente é o mesmo desenvolvedor. O Dying Light iria ser uma continuação do Dead Island, mas seguiu rumo diferente. Jogando os dois vocês vê claramente isso. Online ainda funciona normal, isto é bom pois o jogo foi feito pensado para jogar online, os 4 personagens...
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About the game
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1GB VRAM), 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dead Island Definitive Edition 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/383150/dead-island-definitive-editionReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.