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Dead Season

Snail Bite · Iceberg Interactive · 2024-10-08

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 08, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Guide a group of unprepared strangers through the apocalypse, in Dead Season, a turn-based tactics adventure, created by the one-man studio Snail Bite. Plan carefully to outlast swarming zombie hordes, but remember: noise attracts danger. Can you escape the outbreak's deadly grip?

71%
positive of 209 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (81 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 20,433 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–9.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 209 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.79 at Epic Game Store (2025-06-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 48 of 83 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
515120242026Week of 2024-10-08: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-10-08: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-10-15: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-15: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-22: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-19: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-19: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$6.792024-10-082026-08-252024-10-08 — best price $15.992024-11-07 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $14.992024-12-07 — best price $17.992025-01-03 — best price $19.992025-01-17 — best price $15.742025-01-26 — best price $15.742025-03-01 — best price $19.992025-03-21 — best price $15.742025-04-14 — best price $12.992025-04-25 — best price $17.992025-05-26 — best price $12.992025-06-07 — best price $15.742025-06-20 — best price $15.742025-07-15 — best price $13.392025-08-15 — best price $19.992025-09-10 — best price $15.742025-09-19 — best price $19.992025-10-08 — best price $19.992025-10-26 — best price $19.992025-11-06 — best price $13.392025-12-02 — best price $17.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-16 — best price $19.992026-03-08 — best price $19.992026-03-27 — best price $9.992026-04-13 — best price $9.992026-05-11 — best price $7.992026-05-28 — best price $19.992026-06-17 — best price $17.992026-07-17 — best price $19.992026-08-06 — best price $9.992026-08-23 — best price $19.992026-08-25 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
85.9%
earned "Crash course"
26.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)474%25

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

Player tags

RPGDarkZombiesStrategyTacticalTop-DownCinematicRealisticComic BookOld School

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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