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Better Late Than DEAD

Odin Game Studio · Excalibur Publishing · 2016-03-03

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 03, 2016 (Mac), Mar 03, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.

Better Late Than DEAD is an Action, Adventure and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (28% of 909 reviews).

0
playing now
28%
positive of 910 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (156 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 27,740 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 23k–55k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 910 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at GreenManGaming (2019-04-10) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 36 of 37 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10210220152026Week of 2015-07-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.752015-07-162026-07-092015-07-16 — best price $5.242015-12-29 — best price $6.992016-04-24 — best price $9.992016-08-26 — best price $7.492016-12-22 — best price $3.742017-05-08 — best price $2.992017-10-17 — best price $4.492018-04-09 — best price $4.492018-08-13 — best price $4.082019-01-14 — best price $1.692019-05-24 — best price $1.692019-09-28 — best price $3.932020-01-09 — best price $1.692020-04-15 — best price $1.492020-06-17 — best price $1.692020-09-07 — best price $1.272020-10-16 — best price $4.392021-01-01 — best price $1.442021-02-12 — best price $4.992021-04-06 — best price $4.992021-05-27 — best price $4.142021-08-23 — best price $4.102021-11-21 — best price $4.992022-03-01 — best price $4.812022-06-23 — best price $0.932022-11-22 — best price $1.242023-05-05 — best price $1.242023-08-31 — best price $4.992024-01-18 — best price $1.492024-06-24 — best price $4.992024-12-14 — best price $3.662025-06-26 — best price $1.002025-11-24 — best price $3.662026-05-22 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, French

Player tags

FPSCo-opIndieActionSandboxZombiesCraftingSurvivalAdventureRealistic

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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