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Dead Man´s Diary

TML-Studios · 2022-03-30

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 30, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 12, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), TBD (PlayStation 5)

It's a fictitious post-apocalyptic world, 15 years after the catastrophe, you have to leave your shelter and explore a world devoid of human life. On your own, you must find a way to survive.

45%
positive of 84 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
35/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
2.91★
PlayStation Store rating (116 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$24.99
steam price (US)
Dead Man's Diary is an adventure-survival video game developed and published by TML-Studios. The game was released for Microsoft Windows on 30 March 2022.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 78% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 20,283 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–3.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 84 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 2 of 3 observed days · $10.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320222026Week of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$9.992022-03-302026-09-272022-03-30 — best price $24.992023-11-21 — best price $17.492023-11-28 — best price $24.992023-12-21 — best price $17.492024-01-04 — best price $24.992025-03-13 — best price $17.492025-03-20 — best price $24.992025-06-26 — best price $17.492025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-09-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian

Player tags

3DFPSFunnyActionLinearPuzzleShooterCraftingSurvivalAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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