DEAD RISING®
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 550TI / AMD Radeon HD 6770, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in October 2018. It has been discounted 53 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 5 ($19.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Rising® 2 ($19.99, scores 44).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Of the 398 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 512 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
68% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
40 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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DEAD RISING® scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/427190/dead-risingThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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