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Dead Man's Draw

Stardock Entertainment · 2014-02-06

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 08, 2015 (iOS), Feb 06, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dead Man’s Draw is a simple and strategic game of luck and skill that boils down strategy gameplay into a single, tense decision.

0
playing now
84%
positive of 644 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Dead Man's Draw is a strategic card game application developed for Apple (iOS) and Windows, published by Stardock. It was first developed for iOS, releasing on 8 October 2015. This release was followed by a PC port, released on the Steam marketplace on 6 February 2016. A tabletop version of the game was published by MayDay Games and released on 11 April 2015.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 644 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.24-68%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at IndieGala Store (2024-03-12) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 49 of 68 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.38$1.752015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $3.392015-09-01 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $6.992017-06-23 — best price $3.492018-05-30 — best price $11.382018-11-21 — best price $3.492019-06-26 — best price $3.492019-10-15 — best price $6.992020-01-07 — best price $6.992020-04-10 — best price $2.802020-06-08 — best price $6.992020-07-17 — best price $6.992020-09-18 — best price $6.992020-10-24 — best price $6.992020-12-15 — best price $2.972021-01-27 — best price $6.992021-02-24 — best price $6.992021-04-06 — best price $6.992021-05-07 — best price $6.992021-07-09 — best price $5.842021-09-24 — best price $2.802021-12-01 — best price $5.132022-01-22 — best price $6.992022-05-26 — best price $5.842022-10-09 — best price $5.482022-12-22 — best price $3.492023-03-23 — best price $6.992023-07-21 — best price $2.802023-12-01 — best price $1.792024-04-29 — best price $2.382024-10-15 — best price $5.482025-01-13 — best price $5.482025-06-03 — best price $5.482025-10-19 — best price $5.482026-01-23 — best price $2.792026-05-04 — best price $6.992026-08-24 — best price $2.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

802026-05-29 — 5 pageviews2026-06-01 — 3 pageviews2026-06-04 — 0 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-22 — 0 pageviews2026-06-25 — 0 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 0 pageviews2026-07-10 — 0 pageviews2026-07-13 — 0 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 6 pageviews2026-07-25 — 3 pageviews2026-07-28 — 3 pageviews2026-07-31 — 0 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 6 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-15 — 3 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1 pageviews2026-08-21 — 2 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8016%20

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

Player tags

2DPvEIndieCasualPiratesStrategyStylizedCard GameHand-drawnTurn-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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