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The Deadseat

Curious Fox Sox · 2025-05-14

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 14, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

97%
positive of 675 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3,876
twitch viewers (latest)
3876.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 34 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 51,314 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 675 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.97 at Steam (2025-07-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
878720252026Week of 2025-05-15: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-22: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-05: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-06-12: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-03: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-10: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-17: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-24: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-07: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-10: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$1.972025-05-152026-10-082025-05-15 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $2.002025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-07-21 — best price $1.972025-07-28 — best price $2.992025-08-29 — best price $1.972025-09-05 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.972025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-30 — best price $1.972025-11-06 — best price $2.992025-12-06 — best price $1.972025-12-13 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.972026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-02-24 — best price $1.972026-03-03 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.972026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-01 — best price $1.972026-06-08 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $1.972026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-07-20 — best price $1.972026-07-27 — best price $2.992026-08-28 — best price $2.992026-10-01 — best price $1.972026-10-08 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
96.3%
earned "Nostalgia"
9.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3844%11

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

Player tags

3DDarkIndieRetroActionHorrorRogue-likeSimulationStory RichFirst-Person

Census log

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

Recent updates

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