Dead In Vinland

Dead In Vinland

Skip · RPG · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The value isn't there at $19.99.

Reviews
77% positive
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Price
$19.99
as of Sep 24
Reviews
77%
1,822 reviews, as of Aug 2
Metacritic
74
critic score
Players
150K
owners (estimate)
Released
2018
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTS 450, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Description from the Steam store page.

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.

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Engagement8% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value~$2.50/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach150K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 452 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in August 2025. It has been discounted 75 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.

Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Dead In Bermuda ($14.99, scores 22).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. None of the 452 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

64% start to 8% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Most players never reach the end. Steam global achievements

Players

21 players at peak in the last day.

The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.

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Dead In Vinland scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 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/573120/dead-in-vinland
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The 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 2, price as of Sep 24.

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Critics vs players+3
Critics
74
Players
77
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,822 Steam player reviews

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Details

DeveloperIshtar Games
PublisherIshtar Games
GenreRPG
Released2018
Achievements50