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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? From the Steam store page
150 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 26, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
65 positive · 25 negative
95% range 62–80%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 65 | 25 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 28 | 4 | 28 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
66 of 93 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
71% recommend · 65 yes, 26 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 91 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (151 of 214 positive).
Players praise the game as a faithful adaptation of the Zombicide board game with atmospheric graphics and challenging tactical gameplay. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note the game is polished and well-presented, but criticize its short length and lack of content. [4][5][6] Some players find the game too punishing due to infinite zombie spawning, low hit chances, and random item loss between missions. [7][8][9]
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- [8]
I tried the hard difficulty. I play turn-based tactic games on the hardest difficulty, and I have never had a problem with the games. But now I have: 1. Infinite spawn on hard difficulty is insane. 2. Low hit chances with every weapon 3. Zombies had high critical chance (2 critical of 3-4 hits) 4. Between levels, items can be lost/destroyed. 5. On hard difficulty, there is no time to loot, so after some level, you …
- [1]
This game is based heavily on the Zombicide boardgame - a punishing and often cruel ruleset that has a high degree of RNG that can really change the game from turn to turn and map to map. DO NOT confuse this game with a generic turn-based survival game or look for realism. Most of the negative reviews I have read are critical of the ruleset but this is unfair. This game is an exceptional adaptation of the original …
- [4]
I beat the game 3 times, and I would recommend it overall. My favorite thing about this game is just the amount of polish: no bugs, no crashes - the game is streamlined to the extreme and is well-polished. It looks great for an indie game, and the way they present the story is very enticing. It uses a black-and-white comic reel that is intermittent with the missions that you play. The game presentation is really …
- [13]
love this game, i like how hard it is and it makes you really think about your moves. don't know why people are giving it a bad rating. this is the best RPG zombie game i have played. is the game hard?: yes, but think about your moves and the scenarios also use the close space (rooms) to your advantage to set up a def perimeter. stop crying about it and think. if the devs decided to make a 2nd part i would totally …
- [2]
I absolutely loved this. If you are familiar with the Zombicide board game then you will love this. Turn based strategy at its best. Enjoyed every single level. Thank you for the experience.
Summarised from 34 of the 151 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
71% of the 91 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Dead Season. The complaint that keeps coming up: game is too short, around 5-9 hours. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 150 · most liked firstThis game was disappointing in the demo, and I see the developers have made no effort to listen to feedback or make any changes, at least in the early stages. Zombies constantly spawn and immediately move toward your groups location, even if there is no way they could see you. Character actions are limited and have to be further divided between movement, combat and searching for weapons and equipment to fight back with. Weapons seem to be universally terrible, with percent hit chance tied to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried the hard difficulty. I play turn-based tactic games on the hardest difficulty, and I have never had a problem with the games. But now I have: 1. Infinite spawn on hard difficulty is insane. 2. Low hit chances with every weapon 3. Zombies had high critical chance (2 critical of 3-4 hits) 4. Between levels, items can be lost/destroyed. 5. On hard difficulty, there is no time to loot, so after some level, you have no weapon 6. Zombies always know where you are 7. The game is slow: waiting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a reasonably fun and simple turn-based tactical action game, but with less than 5 hours of gameplay I can't recommend the game at full price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Difficult to recommend this one, as much as I would have liked to. It's not terrible, but the problem is that it doesn't really feel like your strategic decisions matter when the true enemy you're facing is your own attacks constantly missing and your guns getting jammed over and over again. The puzzles each level presents are very simple so if you ever lose it's 99% because of bad gun RNG. Obviously the idea here is to make it challenging enough to feel like a "realistic" zombie apocalypse…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the overdetermined adventure game tier list has entered phase 2! we begin with Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season 1 - nebula.tv/videos/innue...
neutral · AI labelView post →Game is only 8 hours long not with the price. Repetitive and lacks any progression or uniqueness to any character.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is based heavily on the Zombicide boardgame - a punishing and often cruel ruleset that has a high degree of RNG that can really change the game from turn to turn and map to map. DO NOT confuse this game with a generic turn-based survival game or look for realism. Most of the negative reviews I have read are critical of the ruleset but this is unfair. This game is an exceptional adaptation of the original game with nice atmospheric graphics and challenging tactical gameplay. What this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the end of production on The Walking Dead Season One, once the game was locked, almost all of the team had gone home other than QA and a couple people left behind to fix any last bugs that were caught. During that stir-crazy week, this was made by those people: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAH...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is just awful. The game designers should be ashamed. The only tactical, survival, or realism elements that exist in this game are the ones that hinder you, not any that make the game fun or exciting. I went from mission 1 to mission 2 and was promptly told by the game that between missions you can randomly lose or break gear. The AK and Chainsaw I nearly died for in mission 1 (which jammed every other round anyway) were then promptly removed from my inventory because apparently we just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the positive reviews! I really do! "Oh, it's not Xcom so it's ok that it's a terribly half assed Pile of dookie that punishes you for playing it" Stop please you've already cleaned out the international stores of copium there are no more! Firstly, the game punishes you for buying it! Not in the way GOOD tactics games do, by punishing bad mistakes and rewarding lucky/clever ones, but by always ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on your parade for no apparent reason. For example, consistently spawning enemies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games that had me SOBBING on stream: FFX Hellblade Journey Spiritfarer Walking Dead Season 1 Thanks y’all who endured last night’s stream with me. Glad I wasn’t alone Love y’all! VOD is up! Cancelling tonight’s stream to handle tech. Saturday we start a game from a Black Dev: IN STARS AND TIME✨🕰️
positive · AI labelView post →Trash. Don't waste your money on this... half @ssed game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I beat the game 3 times, and I would recommend it overall. My favorite thing about this game is just the amount of polish: no bugs, no crashes - the game is streamlined to the extreme and is well-polished. It looks great for an indie game, and the way they present the story is very enticing. It uses a black-and-white comic reel that is intermittent with the missions that you play. The game presentation is really exciting. The game has three issues: it's way too short, the hardest difficulty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not really sure why this game is getting so much hate tbh. Firstly, play the demo, if you like that, then you'll like the full game, it is more of the same. Could this game be better? Certainly. I was really hoping for more from this game (like base building) but it is still worth playing and I am hopeful that the developers may expand on this in a future game. In a nutshell, you've got 4 characters that can carry up to 4 items at any given time, you may randomly lose items between…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was really looking forward to this one! I was thinking it would be a Project Zomboid meets X-Com... I was wrong. I played through the tutorial and the first level on normal. I didn't care to keep playing anymore after that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🄵🅁🄾🄼 🅃🄷🄴 🄵🄰🄻🄲🄾🄽 🅅🄰🅄🄻🅃🅂 #365xFalconGames25 A game a day keeps the doctor away! Game 3️⃣5️⃣3️⃣ It’s time for the Walking Dead Season 2. Great story, great characters and zombies. Can’t ask for more! What are you sharing today? #gaming #GamingCommunity #videogames
positive · AI labelView post →I really liked the gameplay and concept, however the weapons and items to be found were limited and I felt the campaign was really short. After 6 hours of game play (Per steam) i was able to make it to the end only to be encouraged to replay the levels or choose a different route.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, this game has me conflicted. It has the idea of a great game. But I will say that having never-ending spawning of zombies on every single level makes the entire game seem tedious, and kind of takes the fun away. The 4 square movement I think was done to make the game seem more fast paced, but it's doing the opposite. The percentages of hit chances seem to be for show. 90%+ hit chance shouldn't result in 4 misses in a row. With some work and a bit more polishing, this could be a great game.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sorry, guys, but I have to say that I like it! I don't have much experience playing turn-based strategy games, but this one is really interesting to me. I played through the demo before, and in both cases, I chose the medium difficulty level. When I played the full version, I was able to beat the first level on my first try, and I didn't use any saves. Sometimes I missed my shots or attacks, but it wasn't critical. I really like the oppressive atmosphere and the sound design. The stylish…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really dont get the point of the travel insurance perk if the missions MANDATE that you lose all your stuff anyway. I get that the game maker is trying to make the game challenging but randomly making your party lose close to all your weapons in a difficult level is just too contrived.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely loved this. If you are familiar with the Zombicide board game then you will love this. Turn based strategy at its best. Enjoyed every single level. Thank you for the experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead Season is ok overall, but it's pretty limited in variety, and even on a relatively short campaign, it became repetitive and boring well before the end. Unless they add more variety to the weapons, abilities and skill trees, it's not worth picking up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have enjoyed playing Dead Season so far, it's quite unique having a turn-based zombie game. If you're having difficulty, there is an easy mode so there is that option, I do understand where people are coming from in terms of the infinite zombie spawning. It just needs a little bit of fine tuning. The price point is just right for what you're getting. I like the comic book style of story telling and the game looks decent graphically. Dialogue is fairly realistic and I like traversing the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(mini-review.) What looks like an epic mash-up of Baldur's Gate 3 and The Walking Dead actually comes off as a frustrating mess. The Trailer shows lots of shooting play, which will get your team killed in short order since noise attracts a staggering amount of zombies. Abstaining from firearms won't stop large amounts of zombies from confronting you, however, since the game constantly spawns zombies to oppose you in greater and greater numbers and they all have wall hacks, able to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a decent but short. I played conservatively/completionist style on Normal difficulty and spent about 9 hours. After the first couple of levels its pretty easy if you are a patience player. Likes: -Theme was pretty awesome -Graphics are great for an indy -Game play and Menu are intuitive Dislikes: -You can only get 11 skill points (don't waste your time on the 1 HP bonus and 1 HP after you die once) -When you complete the game you cannot play the levels you didn't choose on the paths…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once you get your head around mechanics, it simply becomes too easy and repetitive. Moreover, the percentages of hit chance are somehow rigged to players advantage. I've played enough Xcom to know.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game, until you come to the stealth mission. A bunch of predetermined steps have to be guessed or you get instant game over.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For Halloween I played The Walking Dead Season One for the first time, a game considered a massive monument in adventure games. And, while, I see its incredible craft, and probably this is deeply poisoned by Today's Bad Vibes, it was exceptionally Not For Me. Listen in:
negative · AI labelView post →love this game, i like how hard it is and it makes you really think about your moves. don't know why people are giving it a bad rating. this is the best RPG zombie game i have played. is the game hard?: yes, but think about your moves and the scenarios also use the close space (rooms) to your advantage to set up a def perimeter. stop crying about it and think. if the devs decided to make a 2nd part i would totally buy it. i highly recommend to everyone unless your lazy and don't like to use…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its exactly what i wanted it to be fan fantastic. Its my favorite board game come to life! Great job i absolutely love it so far
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🐢 Stream Schedule for week 40! 🐢 My first playthrough of Okami continues this Monday and Thursday starting 5 PM UTC / 8 PM EEST! Let's finish the game this week! 👀 This Sunday I'll Play Telltale Games The Walking Dead Season 1 in ONE MARATHON STREAM! More info below! 👇 #vtuber #envtuber #pngtuber
neutral · AI labelView post →Off the top of my head, maybe Clementine in the Telltale Walking Dead Season 1 or some animal companion in a different game, but honestly Kim's probably as popular if not more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Never left a review before I don't think, bought the game stupidly without trying the demo. That's on me. I feel like i've been scammed, by myself. I've paid £16 for an absolute steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥. Slow game, easy game, everything about it is bad. The story? Wasn't engaging at all. The game play? Boring and slow. Challenge? On the three missions I did, the whole thing was incredibly easy. Even the music/sounds were a bore. To people saying good for an indie game? Most of the games I play…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game, but I wish it were a little longer. I think a greater variety if weapons and equipment would have been nice too. I'd pay for a DLC with more maps and equipment and mission type.. (hint hint). Anyhoo, all in all, if you like turn based and you like zombies... this game is fried gold... :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have to say I'm actually really enjoying this, despite all the negative reviews! I can see what these are saying, and I agree with a lot of the points they make; but just enjoying the game for what it is is pretty fun - atmosphere is hugely oppressive and its simple. I'd like to see the developers build on this and I have many suggestions for how in the first episode that I have thusfar streamed on my channel :) Looking forward to doing more!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To be fair, it's good for what it wants to be. Don't expect XCOM. Try it, and if you don't like it, simply refund it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enyoing this one. Basic gameplay, seems to be inspired by Zombicide boardgame. Nice artstyle. Very short, normal playthrough took me 5 hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't play 18 h, most of the time game was just in background. Because you cant save as you want, so i just tab the game. I really like the game. I love tactic games. History fine, but very short as all game. Combat system fine for me , i don't know if i get all items, but there is not many choice. Sometimes you need to think what to do next to success, but game was quite easy, i never use med kit, but use few times saves. I was thinking this is just a 1 chapter, but this was all…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameChallenge #Games #Gaming #Telltale #TheWalkingDead #TWD Day 14: The Walking Dead: Season Two
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a video game moment that wrecked you. For me, it was the ending of The Walking Dead Season 1. One of the most soul-crushing endings I've ever witnessed in a video game. I will never forget when I first time saw it.
positive · AI labelView post →TLDR: Good game, wait until Steam discount. I found this game from a Reddit ad, the only reason I looked for it on Steam was because the ad had the comment section open. That was a huge risk in trust from the game's dev/advertisment team, so I was down to give it a shot. On the whole, I was very impressed by the graphics and how the intuitive gameplay flowed and easily translated almost everything the player needs to accomplish the objectives. In stark contrast to XCOM's "do the thing in 5…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bear in mind, this is a review based on having the game in the first week. Facts up front, I have just over an hour in the game. I love turn based combat games. As with anything else, my view is heavily shaded by the positives and negatives that came before. First, positives: I think the concept of a zombie turn based game is great. We got a bit of that scenario in XCOM 2 W.O.T.C., but it is the crux of the game here. Limited boots on the ground and resources lean into it which is great. Urban…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I personally really like this game! The juicy animations and visual style are a treat, and the interface is smooth and user-friendly. What really stands out is the constant pressure the game puts on you as a player. Even the first level was a bit challenging, which I appreciated. The twist in the second one was surprising! I'll be interested to see what the developers offer next!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In a nutshell, it's a good game. Worth the price and time. There are some flaws or things to improve. * Infinity respawn seems way too agressive. * It's really difficult in some maps, way harder than average. Huges spikes in difficult. It's fun and feels the survival theme, but too much. * It's relative short. It was disclaimered, but the story seems to stops abrutly. * A lot of maps triggers alerts by the end, and you have to watch the same annoying animation and sounds for 10+ rounds.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Other than that it is too short, this is a little gem for turn based strategy and zombie fans. Mind you, this is a low budget game and here and there it shows. But the developer made the best out of this - e. g. the cutscenes are told by stills with only little sounds, but they are very effective, nice to look at and sometimes really intense. gameplay is diverse enough, the RPG/skill elements are very basic though. For my taste, this was an extremely enjoyable little game and I could not help…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Walking Dead Season 1 the game not the show The amount of detail and story and artistic creation that went into this to really make it feel so real and have such weight and emotion to it is soooooooo amazing the fact that bro was right every choice really do matter is craaazzzyyyyyy
positive · AI labelView post →Playing Life is Strange Double Exposure again and, along with The Walking Dead Season 4, I'm impressed by how emotionally invested I am in the romantic lives of video game women I spent my adolescence watching grow up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice tactical RPG. XCOM with zombies
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Walking Dead Season Season 2 FINALE is LIVE on YouTube~! Cannot even believe what happened at the end, this game is insane 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMp...
positive · AI labelView post →And that’s an end to The Walking Dead Season 2! Much thanks to @valkian24.bsky.social who joined me for the stream and saw the game come to it’s thrilling and dramatic conclusion!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Walking Dead: Season One. The only video game (that I still like lol) that made me weep openly. Stories about zombies aren't supposed to be so...human. And the heroes not so...flawed. It's one of the best tragic stories ever told.
positive · AI labelView post →20: The Walking Dead Season One alas, telltale. this game was the best and the absolute worst thing to have ever happened to you
neutral · AI labelView post →unique and enjoyable experience under ten hours. Short and sweet. Have you ever have payed the board game zombicide? If yes then this game will feel familiar. I will definitely buy a sequel if they make it or any dlc. i dont understand the negative reviews. if you are unsure try the demo. the progress carries over to the full game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, this game is really good. The atmosphere is nice and beautifully recreated. Everything is so neat and beautiful. I have been playing this nonstop since I bought it 2 days ago. Well done to the creators of Dead Season. This is money well spent. ;)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the premise of this game. However, it has some very obvious weak points. I enjoyed the time I spent playing the game, but I hope they improve it with additions or a sequel. I was hoping for more 'Xcom but with zombies' feel, and instead, it feels like a mobile game with no attention to finer details. I will leave this a positive review score because I did enjoy the game for the most part. Do with that what you will, Pros -Zombies -maps are fun -Dialog isn't cringy Cons -No…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fuck it. Let's do this. I'm going to start my own 20 day #GameChallenge. The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day. But I'm gonna rant about the games because I have no self control. Day 1: Telltale's The Walking Dead, Season 1.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dead Season is a fun and short turn based game. The missions are mostly the same idea, being that you grab an item or flip a switch so you can move forward. They're are a few different ones where you barricade yourself in, or have to survive a certain amount of rounds. But with it's short length it doesn't become tedious. You have four characters accompanied by a mediocre skill tree. There's a perk that allows you to not use an AP when you reload. But the only gun that reloads is the double…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As of today, The Walking Dead - Season 1 (2012) is the 261st best game of all time according to me, directly below Card City Nights and Directly above Wario Ware: Mega Microgames. It is part of Tier 29. There are 48 tiers and 539 games in the list. #PixelRankings
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, my ugly cry game was Telltale's the Walking Dead. Season 1, 2 and 4. And i wept a bit in BG3, dammit Karlach.
positive · AI labelView post →9. Saddest game scene (since this was specifically requested) Without a doubt, it's the end of The Walking Dead Season 1. It's what made me reach out to the voice actors to interview them during my media days. bsky.app/profile/sens...
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