Deadly Days

Deadly Days

Fair · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10h
Value
$1.20/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
10h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
60.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.20
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$11.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
1,917 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Compatible with Shader Model 3, 512MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.20/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length10 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds7 of 477 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.95. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bardbarian ($7.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).

7 of the 477 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 185 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 10 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 61, 6.1 times as much.

The drop-off

75% start to 11% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

16 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's been fun, I'm having a blast thanks. I picked this up two years ago in 2024 and the backlog has grown and games have come and gone, but I'm happy to have fired this one up finally. Deadly Days is like a rogue-lite, real-time XCOM loot-runner horde survival type of game.... You're doing like two minute daily runs to grab loot, choosing areas of preference to find supplies in hoping of building out the best run...
LiquidlazorRecommendedafter 17hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Deadly Days scores 63/100 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/740080/deadly-days
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPixelsplit
PublisherPixelsplit
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Achievements53