Dead Secret
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$10.37Fair
- Length
- 2.2h 2.9h to 100%
- Value
- $6.81/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 599 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.37 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
37 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amanda the Adventurer 2 ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Draugen ($19.99, scores 29).
More about Dead Secret
Steam's global achievement data puts 58 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
58% start to 58% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
It is a bit annoying that you can not change much of the settings, but overall its a good game with an interesting story. About 3 hours for a full playthrough.
1 more review
This is a pretty straightforward murder mystery adventure game, but it has some fun 'scares' that might make you classify this as horror or thriller. The walking mechanic is non-existent, like old-school adventure games where you click the 'edge' of a scene to move in that direction... that makes some of the 'scare' scenes extra tense because you don't get to mash a RUN button! The puzzles were simple and fun, and I...
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Cite this score
Dead Secret scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/402260/dead-secretReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.