Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.04/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 13,137
- Genre rank
- Top 67% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.8h
- To 100%
- 27.3h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 93 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 48 now
- Recent reviews
- 73% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 31% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% 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 93 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 about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. Dead Island Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 57) outscores it, and so does Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy ($14.99, scores 44). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 841 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
9.8 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
At 9.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
Basically the same game as DI1. There are some new mechanics, but nothing too crazy. Seems like the developers didn't fix the issues from the first game. Despite all this, the game is very enjoyable and definitely a fun experience for fans of the franchise.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in 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: Riptide Definitive Edition scores 26/100 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/383180/dead-island-riptide-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.