Death Squared
Fair · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h 10h to 100%
- Value
- $2.46/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 724 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.63 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 238 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Death Squared is a co-op puzzle game about cooperation, communication, and robot explosions. You should buy it!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, SM3 512MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 84 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 34 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Overcooked ($16.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Moving Out ($24.99, scores 38).
More about Death Squared
This site sampled 342 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
At 6.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
60% start to 1% 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
Spawned friend into laser he vanished. Wife spawned into box I gave her flowers. Now we are both cubes and the frost giant fears us.
1 more review, not recommended
🤖 Loneliness in a Cube or "The Puzzle You Bought for Friends but Played Alone" Played through all 80 levels solo - and this review is strictly about the single-player experience. Without a real-life partner, the game loses a lot, and that's not an exaggeration. 🟢 What's Good [*] 🧩 Feels like a mobile puzzle - just without the ads, loot boxes, and microtransactions. In structure and simplicity, it's a typical...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Death Squared scores 56/100 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/471810/death-squaredReviews 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.