Half Dead
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / AMD Radeon HD 4850 or equivalent videocard, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.
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 $0.79. That was February 2016. 114 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, HALF DEAD 2 ($4.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats In Silence ($9.99, scores 39).
Of the 452 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 453 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,641 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 61 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.4 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 9.4 times as long.
The drop-off
93% 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
What players say
This is a good example of how to not do achievements. Nobody wants to do the same thing over and over again for thousands of times. Not only that but the game after like 5 minutes becomes super repetitive, just go inside empty rooms (after you ran out of shoes to throw) and hope you don't get trapped.
I like the concept of the game, but its kinda meh in execution. It pretty much plays a bit like that one horror film Cube, you go from room to room and hope you don't get in a trap, unfortunately a lot of the traps are kinda lame and easy to get away from, so the sense of danger that should be there isn't there at all. Another unfortunate about this, is you'd only be able to play in single player mode as multiplayer...
Half Dead, developed and published by Room710Games, is built around a stark and immediately graspable idea: you are trapped in a grid of identical rooms, some safe, others instantly lethal, and the only way forward is to take risks. Presented as a grim, game show-like scenario where survival hinges on instinct and luck, it wastes no time establishing its tone. There's no elaborate setup or narrative buildup-just a...
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Cite this score
Half Dead scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/434730/half-deadReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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