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Dead as Disco cover art

Dead as Disco

Brain Jar Games, Inc. · 2026-05-05

Steam

ActionIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Third person, Side view

Releases: TBD (Nintendo Switch), TBD (Nintendo Switch 2), TBD (PlayStation 5), TBD (Xbox Series X|S), May 05, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Martial arts meets music video in Dead as Disco, a neon-drenched Beat ‘Em Up where every punch, kick, and combo syncs to the music. Join Charlie Disco on a quest to confront the villainous Idols and reunite the band.

Dead as Disco is a 2026 Action, Indie, Early Access game priced at $19.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 13865 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

97%
positive of 14k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
80/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
1,029
Nexus mods (1.1M downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Dead as Disco is a beat 'em up rhythm video game released in early access on May 5, 2026. The game lets players attack waves of enemies in time with the music, where they can fight their way through each of the game's levels to the tune of songs written specifically for the game, alongside licensed music and a custom soundtrack feature where players can import their own songs.

Trailer

Dead as Disco trailer thumbnail

Dead as Disco - Reveal Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 2,862 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~358/week).
  • · Review velocity down 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 277k–624k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 13,865 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $16.95 at GameBillet (2026-05-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 20 of 27 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.9k3.9k20262026Week of 2026-05-05: 3,881 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 172 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 2,038 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 65 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 1,068 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 524 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 429 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 317 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 545 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 620 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 457 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 359 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 192 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 136 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 155 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 438 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 24 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$16.952026-05-052026-08-172026-05-05 — best price $17.302026-05-06 — best price $17.292026-05-07 — best price $17.142026-05-12 — best price $18.952026-05-13 — best price $17.952026-05-18 — best price $16.952026-05-19 — best price $24.992026-05-20 — best price $24.992026-05-22 — best price $19.392026-05-23 — best price $19.992026-05-30 — best price $21.192026-06-09 — best price $21.102026-06-18 — best price $19.492026-06-19 — best price $17.952026-06-22 — best price $17.062026-06-24 — best price $21.962026-06-25 — best price $24.992026-06-27 — best price $19.992026-06-30 — best price $24.992026-07-09 — best price $24.992026-07-10 — best price $21.192026-08-03 — best price $19.992026-08-04 — best price $17.892026-08-06 — best price $17.892026-08-11 — best price $19.992026-08-12 — best price $19.992026-08-17 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

554302026-05-13 — 228 pageviews2026-05-17 — 250 pageviews2026-05-21 — 91 pageviews2026-06-15 — 61 pageviews2026-06-19 — 49 pageviews2026-06-23 — 196 pageviews2026-06-27 — 269 pageviews2026-07-01 — 267 pageviews2026-07-05 — 239 pageviews2026-07-09 — 170 pageviews2026-07-13 — 174 pageviews2026-07-17 — 141 pageviews2026-07-21 — 151 pageviews2026-07-25 — 123 pageviews2026-07-29 — 131 pageviews2026-08-02 — 134 pageviews2026-08-06 — 330 pageviews2026-08-10 — 172 pageviews2026-08-14 — 193 pageviews2026-08-18 — 138 pageviews2026-08-22 — 192 pageviews2026-08-26 — 133 pageviews2026-08-30 — 231 pageviews2026-09-03 — 164 pageviews2026-09-07 — 134 pageviews2026-09-11 — 127 pageviews2026-09-15 — 110 pageviews2026-09-19 — 116 pageviews2026-09-23 — 118 pageviews2026-09-27 — 398 pageviews2026-10-01 — 378 pageviews2026-10-05 — 315 pageviews2026-10-09 — 306 pageviews2026-10-13 — 201 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
13.9%
earned "Can’t Touch This"
7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-05-05 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,2437%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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