Dead End Road
Fair · Action · 2016
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $1.50/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 336 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% 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.
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About the game
Dead End Road is an atmospheric driving game, with a low-fi aesthetic and procedurally generated elements. Complete your journey to seek the assistance of the old witch at Dead End Road; Get there before daybreak and perhaps, just perhaps, you can escape this nightmare.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 or equivalent, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 48 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BallisticNG ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Thumper ($19.99, scores 65).
More about Dead End Road
Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 185 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Dead End Road, how far are you willing to go for one wish? ㅤ The premise of Dead End Road is simple. You are tasked with an ancient ritual that requires specific ingredients, which you have to collect by traveling from town to town in your car and buying the required objects. All while trying not to die from a car crash, go insane, or simply run out of fuel. The money you're given is limited, making it necessary...
2 more reviews
Solid game. It has a creepy atmosphere and pretty unique gameplay. On top of that, I really love the graphics personally. The game definitely had some good ideas. In my opinion, a few things could have been executed a bit better, especially since some parts can be quite frustrating. Overall though, it was still a very good experience.
7/10 Cursed Driving Every run can be different, and a few things can be based on luck, like the Scratch Cards and the dark alleys (which makes you wonder if it's really worth the risk). The old lady asks you for three items, so make sure you remember to collect them. This game has two endings (if you don't die on the way), so it will depend on whether you retrieve them or not. The runs are short. You can replay and...
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Cite this score
Dead End Road scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/448580/dead-end-roadReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.