Dead Island Definitive Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.4h
- Value
- $1.30/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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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.
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!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 93 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. 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).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 3,355 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.
The drop-off
45% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
410 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
The Game is fun for an hour or two, then it gets really boring at least for me. Basically endless fetch quests back and forth. It isn't the fun i expected. I was expecting a Dying Light style experience, where you'd actually feel terrified, but Dead island fails to capture that same feeling of being hunted.
I haven't played the old version of this much but I do have it on the 360. I don't like doesn't have borderless window mode. why is there dying light assets just popped randomly in the game replacing some weapons? Some of the style change's are strange mostly the sea looks flat, why does SamB's chest follow his chain? getting stuck on random collision that you can't see. Glad I got this on sale but wish you could...
Already owned, and have played the original version (meanwhile delisted and no longer on the store). It's pretty obvious the game wants us to play in co-op, something I dont really do or like, but even in singleplayer it's a fun ride with very enjoyable melee combat. Story is mighty silly, but in a B Movie kind of silly, it's fun. This version is basically the same apart from some visual looks and weapon designs...
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Dead Island Definitive Edition scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/383150/dead-island-definitive-editionThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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