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DEAD DAYLIGHT 死昼 cover art

DEAD DAYLIGHT 死昼

KARMIU · 2025-02-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 09, 2025 (Mac), Feb 09, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"DEADDAYLIGHT" is a side-scrolling platform action-adventure game.Developed independently by a single person. It tells the dark story of a protagonist who wakes up from a nightmare about the plague during a plague after the gods abandoned the earth, and then return to the Cathedral of Holy Light.

86%
positive of 74 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 113 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Top 44% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 74 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10510520252025Week of 2025-02-10: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DActionMedievalAdventureAction RPGHand-drawnPlatformerSouls-likeBeat 'em upMetroidvania

Census log

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