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Dead Hungry

Q-Games Ltd. · 2016-12-05

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionCasualIndie

Franchise: PixelJunk · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Dec 05, 2016 (SteamVR), Nov 07, 2017 (PlayStation VR)

Dead Hungry is a fast-paced VR game developed by Q-Games, creators of the PixelJunk series. Restore zombies to human form by loading up huge hamburgers and hurling them to the grateful undead. Your weapons of choice are burgers, pizza, fries--and anything else you can pick up!

Dead Hungry is an Action, Casual, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $7.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 69 reviews).

91%
positive of 69 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
4.48★
PlayStation Store rating (227 ratings)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–4.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 69 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2026-08-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520162026Week of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$1.592016-12-062026-07-092016-12-06 — best price $29.992017-07-05 — best price $19.992017-11-22 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $19.992018-05-16 — best price $7.992018-10-30 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $3.992019-01-03 — best price $7.992019-04-30 — best price $3.992019-11-01 — best price $7.992019-12-19 — best price $3.992020-07-09 — best price $7.992020-11-26 — best price $3.992021-01-05 — best price $7.992021-06-24 — best price $3.992021-11-01 — best price $7.992021-12-22 — best price $3.992022-02-03 — best price $7.992022-11-22 — best price $1.992023-01-05 — best price $7.992023-06-29 — best price $2.392023-11-28 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $3.192024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-12-06 — best price $1.592025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $1.592025-03-31 — best price $7.992025-06-27 — best price $1.592025-07-21 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $1.592026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $1.592026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, French

Player tags

VRIndieActionCasualCooking

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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