Deadlight: Director's Cut
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $1.79.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB video card with Shader model 3.0 support, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.79. That was January 2023. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 78 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Deadlight ($14.99, scores 45) outscores it, and so does The Final Station ($14.99, scores 57). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 444 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
87% start to 28% 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
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Holy moly this game is not very good, the ending is sooo bad lol. Gameplay is meh, story sucks, characters are uninteresting. Damn, waste of time, but at least im done. 4/10
I bought this game very cheaply at some point, and it has been sitting deep in my backlog ever since. I finally decided to give it a shot because of its unique art style and interesting concepts. I've always been a sucker for 2.5D cinematic platformers, and the story here is actually pretty decent, along with the memorable characters you meet along the journey. However, the severe technical issues completely ruined...
This is a fine left to right puzzle platformer game. Very typical of these types of games, so if you like them, this should work for you. The zombie atmosphere is fun and the story, while not deep, is decent enough. It is somewhat short, but does offer some replayability in a hardcore mode (no saves) and a survival mode.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Deadlight: Director's Cut scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/423950/deadlight-director-s-cutReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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