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Deadly Days
Developer Pixelsplit
Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons. From the Steam store page
198 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
122 positive · 45 negative
95% range 66–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 122 | 45 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 1 | 23 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
377 of 484 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 124 yes, 47 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 171 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,639 of 1,917 positive).
Some reviewers criticize the game for punishing RNG and poor balance, especially regarding explosions. [1][2][3]
Representative posts
- [2]
You know what? I give, it’s not fun. The bones are there for a great game! BUT, Frankly I think the devs need their heads examined on this one. I'll do my best to keep spoilers out. If you don’t want to read a long wall of text. TL:DR This game has flaws, it has great points. It also has one fatal flaw, explosions that damage player characters. Skip it, not worth the time or energy. OK in no particular order, the …
- [4]
Really had a lot of fun playing this game. Finished on switch and then played on steam all over again. The music is awesome!
- [5]
Deadly Days is an addictive and strategic rogue-lite game that combines elements of tower defense, resource management, and survival. Set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, players must lead a group of survivors and navigate through various locations, scavenge for resources, and defend their base from relentless hordes of the undead. The game's unique pixel art style, quirky characters, and …
- [1]
I enjoyed *Deadly Days* for the short time I played it, but I found the RNG far too punishing. My biggest issue was food. After looking through guides and discussions, I found that players mainly get food from three different sources, one of which is supply drops. Unfortunately, whenever I reached a supply drop, I almost always received weapons instead of food. I lost far too many runs because of bad luck rather …
- [6]
Relaxing gameplay with pause-function and a bit micro-managing. Much stuff to unlock, get's a bit tedious when you got the basics, and go for the tougher challenges. I enjoyed it for 20 hours.
Summarised from 34 of the 200 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Deadly Days talk about fun pixel art style and humor; those who didn't talk about punishing RNG and poor balance. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 198 · most liked firstOur game launches between Silksong & Hades II. Yay! BUT instead of fighting for space, we teamed up with 4 other indies caught in the mega indie crossfire for a sick DISCOUNT BUNDLE 🔥 🔸Aethermancer 🔸Clover Pit 🔸Star Birds 🔸Baby Steps 🔸Deadly Days: Roadtrip Link⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →Off to new shores! Hello @bsky.app! What do you think about our upcoming roguelike x inventory management game? Monthly Give-aways of 'Deadly Days: Roadtrip' Steam keys: discord.gg/bQ7pHMcx36 More about our game: tinyurl.com/DDRoadtrip #indiegamedev #roguelike #roguelite #gamedev #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is okay.. I mean.. I've spent like 550hrs on the game.. so.. it's okay. And I'll keep playing. So.. I mean. It's fine. Very fine.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our game launches in-between Silksong and Hades II. Oops. SO we teamed up with 4 other games caught in the mega indie crossfire for a DISCOUNT BUNDLE 🔥 🔸Aethermancer 🔸CloverPit 🔸Star Birds 🔸Baby Steps 🔸Deadly Days: Roadtrip Grab the bundle, we need the help 💀
neutral · AI labelView post →Some screenshots of our game "Deadly Days: Roadtrip" that is currently on development. There will be an open playtest in december. Register on our STEAM store page to get access. Link in Comments #gamedev #pixelart #roguelite
neutral · AI labelView post →Good News!!! ‘Deadly Days: Roadtrip’ is coming to Gamescom and we are officially announcing to be working on the Early Access version! * More items * More enemies * More characters * More bioms * More game modes #gamedev #madewithunreal #indiegame #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →DEMO OUT NOW Yay! Finally! Big update on #nextfest 09.06.2025 💀💀💀... #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart Game: 'Deadly Days: Roadtrip'
neutral · AI labelView post →Deadly Days: Roadtrip DEMO went live yesterday. This is some backpack screenshots shared by our community. Good inventory management is key for a strong build. What do you think of the combination of inventory management x roguelite? #pixelart #unrealengine #indiegame #madewithunreal #gamedev #dev
neutral · AI labelView post →(Hänno's) INSTINCT3 established its new publishing arm Sidekick Publishing. The first game under there new banner will be 'Deadly Days: Roadtrip'. www.gematsu.com/2025/08/inst...
neutral · AI labelView post →Our JUST released game 'Deadly Days: Roadtrip' is featured on #NoTimeToLoot2025 -> A quite perfect fit, since looting and not having time to loot are two of the core mechanics of our #indiegame :D #pixelart #gaming #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →I like the game. It really starts off rough, and then runs can get good. It is just too much and doesn't respect the players time, even for a roguelike - very rapid difficulty increase even on easy very rapid nighttime difficulty increase (understandable for the genre, but with all else its meh) Special zombies - especially movement impairing which can easily drop a survivor if you miss it Environmental hazards that are impossible to avoid - i.e. lightning Map impediments like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know what? I give, it’s not fun. The bones are there for a great game! BUT, Frankly I think the devs need their heads examined on this one. I'll do my best to keep spoilers out. If you don’t want to read a long wall of text. TL:DR This game has flaws, it has great points. It also has one fatal flaw, explosions that damage player characters. Skip it, not worth the time or energy. OK in no particular order, the good. 1. Awesomely tight game loop! Even frustrated I still wanted just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow my Curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41363546-Fruit-N-Doggie-Reviews/]Fruit N Doggie Reviews, so you can be updated whenever I post a new review. Overall Rating - Painfully Bad ★☆☆☆☆ First Impressions A month ago, I received a review key for Deadly Days Roadtrip, which wound up being a spin-off to a game I already had in my inventory. Having so many games in said library, I didn't even notice this coincidence at first, having never played Deadly Days (DD). After…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a great game, until it decides to instant gib your entire team for no reasonable reason. I like to consider myself to be intuitive, and yet I have no idea why Im dying. Ill have a solid fun run, until I go into a level and I just lose all of my people with no way to counter it. First time was a lightening storm, constant damage and unavoidable strikes. Second good run was as soon as I left the bus, Im not even sure why or how as there was no feedback for me to reflect on. So my review is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall good ideas in mechanics and overall good execution but severely hindered by a small few critically bad design decisions. The most egregious problem is that most of the effort that has gone into balancing the rest of the game goes to waste because of the surprising prevalence of powerful explosions with little warning which can easily wipe an entire team of survivors in an instant. After learning how to get past the early game, this has been the cause of every single one of my failed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know about you, but the more a game makes me race against time, the less actual time I'm willing to dedicate to it. In this case (hurry before night falls! hurry before the zombies become too strong!), an hour is more than enough, and I have better things to play. Also, this one features idiotic design decisions. For example, you can freely heal during a mission, but not while "resting" in your base. Riiiight...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deadly Days: Roadtrip does not have a fishing minigame :(( #deadlydaysroadtrip #indiegame #gaming #videogames #fishing #fishingminigame
negative · AI labelView post →Cow + Bread = Burger
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good idea, addicting but very bad balancing - you can do everything right and be overrun cause the game said so
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really had a lot of fun playing this game. Finished on switch and then played on steam all over again. The music is awesome!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly these grabber zombies are just insanely annoying. I just can´t approve of any game where one of the main features is you losing control over your character every 5 seconds
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →real fun game, the guys crying in the comments are just noobs XD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We are Pixelsplit, known for creative indie titles. This march we're gonna launch playtest #4 for "Deadly Days: Roadtrip", which combines the intense dynamics of a bullet hell game with resourceful inventory management in a thrilling post-apocalyptic world. Join in now! #indiegamedev #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →Game starts fine at first there are a lot of great ideas, then you get hit by all the randomness and rushing. It feels like going to work after some time instead of being fun and entertaining
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deadly Days is not my kind of game. I don't like 'hurry up' games or games with so much busyness on the screen that it's hard to tell whats what. The colors and the blocky graphics blend together too much. Not recommended
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deadly Days It's not exactly terrible but it's not great either. You start with your randomly generated guys, loot some more weapons and then find more guys and then you go around looting. In Deadly days you can loot scrap which is 70% of what you will find, weapons which is 20% of what you will find, food which is 5% of what you will find and hammers which also 5% of what you will find. So you will have endless amount of scrap and useless weapons with little bit of food and some hammers. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Inspired by Balatro, "Break the game" is a design goal for Deadly Days: Roadtrip. My teammate is working on an air pump item that inflates bullets of ranged weapons and the size of melee weapons. Taken to the extreme in the video 🙈 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #UnrealEngine
neutral · AI labelView post →I for one do NOT enjoy unbalanced randomness. I don't mind having to manage, balance or just be good at things, but being at the mercy of the game's ongoing "I will just let you starve, because, well, I guess gamebalancing was either not done or our understanding of roguelike means FORCING people to die no matter how well they play". Not an approach I can condone and after giving the game a genuine hour of showing me that doing several runs might maybe improve the situation - it simply did not.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More pixels in this game then most hentai. Waifu Approved :s_goodluck:
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It took three runs to completely engross me into Deadly Days and now I can't wait for its release! The game has a highly addicting mix of inventory management with bullet hell zombie goodness! youtu.be/nrQh6Abe-Jo @pixelsplit.bsky.social #indiegame #indiecreator
positive · AI labelView post →Our latest pre-alpha trailer for Deadly Days: Roadtrip. What do you think? What the team has achieved in the last months is incredible 🥰 Almost a new game. Feel free to signup for our playtest😄 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #unrealengine
neutral · AI labelView post →The ♥♥♥♥ is this game? I can't beat it for ♥♥♥♥ because something stupid happens. The final mission will kill your whole time when a smoke cloud explodes and cuts your team's hp in half. The final boss spawns more zombies then you can kill and will turn their speed up to an unavoidable level. The levels are an endless clicking maze that gets boring quickly and you'll die because you didn't find a good weapon.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Who knew the apocalypse could be so relaxingly chill? Deadly days has very simple gameplay and mechanics and at first I thought it was going to be a big grind, the roguelike grind, full of evil RNG and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unlucky procedural maps that want to kill you, well, kinda but the game gives you enough arsenal to stand your ground and still win, i felt this is where the fun challenge came from, learning what kind of team and weapons to use against the luck the game throws at you at any given run.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deadly Days is an addictive and strategic rogue-lite game that combines elements of tower defense, resource management, and survival. Set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, players must lead a group of survivors and navigate through various locations, scavenge for resources, and defend their base from relentless hordes of the undead. The game's unique pixel art style, quirky characters, and humor-infused gameplay make for an engaging and enjoyable experience. With its challenging…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2026 Finished Game Finished Game 18 - Deadly Days: Road Trip (Steam) DD:RT is a zombie survival roguelite with pixel graphics. It’s fun, challenging, but never frustrating. Music is meh. Very addictive loop. Tons more yo unlock still. 4.25/5⭐️ @polykillpodcast.bsky.social #justbeatit
positive · AI labelView post →Welcome aboard! Were happy to share that @pixelsplit.bsky.social (Deadly Days Roadtrip), @neverjam.bsky.social (Spiderheck) and @moiraigames.bsky.social (Aethermancer) will be joining us this June in Hamburg. Find out more and register for Portside Game Assembly: portsideassembly.com #PSGA26
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is pretty fun but it's way too heavily RNG based. Sometimes airdrops give you purple weapons that outclass weapons 10 levels higher than them. Sometimes they give you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ grey weapons that you immediately scrap. I've had games where you don't get any purple weapons and I don't even think those are possible to win. Sometimes there are piles of explosive barrels (which the game never even mentions exist) behind buildings which will instantly kill you. Sometimes giant electric…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played ballxpit for a bit, I'm playing Deadly Days Roadtrip right now, it's a survivor with a backpack leveling mechanic
neutral · AI labelView post →Deadly Days is a roguelite that fully embraces failure as part of progression. Dying is expected, but each run meaningfully feeds into the next through unlocks, knowledge, and smarter decision-making. New survivors, weapons, and items steadily expand your options, and each character’s expertise encourages thoughtful loadouts and synergy rather than brute-forcing your way through encounters. Winning feels earned because it’s built on lessons learned from multiple failed runs. The gameplay loop…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Live now! Playing Deadly Days: Roadtrip! A zombie shooter rogue-lite that lets twich chat vote on what items I can get in game! Let's survive the zombie apocalypse together! #vtuber www.twitch.tv/thespacejace
neutral · AI labelView post →Relaxing gameplay with pause-function and a bit micro-managing. Much stuff to unlock, get's a bit tedious when you got the basics, and go for the tougher challenges. I enjoyed it for 20 hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worse version of Death Road to Canada, take that for what you will.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing Deadly Days: Roadtrip since yesterday and it's finally again a game that captivates me and i really look forward when i have the Time to play. store.steampowered.com/app/3026450/...
positive · AI labelView post →I recommend this game for a short period of entertainment, if purchased on a massive discount, like over 50% off. It is extremely RNG, unbalanced (threat level goes crazy fast. Rats swarms and rat zombies are very bad news early on, but still not as bad as explosion zombies at any point which are extremely dangerous and can kill your whole team at any level), and the difficulty absolutely rockets up from a quiet start to silly very quickly. But it is still kind of fun for a little while…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The elements of this game is almost good, but the map generating is so bad I got stuck in the bus and couldn't explore the map twice.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Top down Zombie RTS with Looting, Loots, Upgrades, Skills, Management, Guns In Pixel graphics, Honestly, I did not expect to have fun with such a game, But It proved me wrong ! I can't even tell if Judging a game by the gameplay, videos can persuade me to play it is the way to go, but if you like looting, managing resources, zombie killing, rts, then you are up for a trip. Sure, it can be rough at times, but it feels good when you get rewarded based on your progression, plus it had a "Level up…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First decent run, was doing really well and started to use strategy, was doing my 4th burger place to get the last map piece, bosses spawned, slime dudes, insta wipe, less than 1 second for the whole squad, that's not fun, that's not good game design, i don't care what you have to say for it, it's just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Really fun game ruined by this ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →edit: after playing more, ive had teams of roughly 4-6. but still nothing like the in game screenshots. its fun for a while.. but definitely doesnt feel like a rogue lite. I unlock new possible abilities and survivors, but I do not grow stronger in any way. It's square one all over again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too h4rd 10/6 - (for difficulty)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much the reason I'm downvoting is because, as an achievement hunter, this game is terrible. If you aren't going for the achievements, then this is a fun little game. If you are going for achievements, then you're going to enjoy the game, and feel like it's so simple and straightforward that it must be a fairly lowkey 100%. You'd be dead wrong. The Good It's incredibly simple and easy to just jump right in. Zero learning curve. When I first started I was actually immediately…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Far too random, and too punishing. My favorite part is when the Smoker type zombies are on the field, and your group of survivors run to the bus - all get on, except one who gets grabbed at the last second. Can you pull your other survivors off the bus to save your last pawn? Nope, they're just dead now, sorry.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can get Deadly Days: Roadtrip on PC! You can also follow the developers on Bluesky, @pixelsplit.bsky.social! store.steampowered.com/app/3026450/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I enjoyed *Deadly Days* for the short time I played it, but I found the RNG far too punishing. My biggest issue was food. After looking through guides and discussions, I found that players mainly get food from three different sources, one of which is supply drops. Unfortunately, whenever I reached a supply drop, I almost always received weapons instead of food. I lost far too many runs because of bad luck rather than poor decisions or mistakes on my part. Roguelikes should have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's been fun, I'm having a blast thanks. I picked this up two years ago in 2024 and the backlog has grown and games have come and gone, but I'm happy to have fired this one up finally. Deadly Days is like a rogue-lite, real-time XCOM loot-runner horde survival type of game.... You're doing like two minute daily runs to grab loot, choosing areas of preference to find supplies in hoping of building out the best run you can to take on the final challenge. In terms of rogue-like mechanics, some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A solid, enjoable rogue-lite, UNLESS YOU TRY TO FIND THAT STUPID WIZARD! HOW TO FIND A WIZARD?! HE HAS INVISIBILITY!!! YOU JUST CAN'T 8/10 All right, finally found the mage. Great game, enjoyed it a lot!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →new game added to the list! DEADLY DAYS: ROADTRIP thumbs up big time. loved the first one &this is even better! cute as hell, controls feel great- gameplay loop is even tighter than the original! 10,000% a sicko for inventory management games? get it!
positive · AI labelView post →Deadly Days: Roadtrip Demo launching ~tonight. Big update until Next Fest. About the game: Loot, shoot and mow down zombie hordes in a bullet heaven fever dream. Embark on a deadly roadtrip + get your inventory management kick... store.steampowered.com/app/3026450/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Death Road to Canada but worse, still enjoed it tho
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im a simple man. If I play a game saying "only 10 more minutes" for an hour, I recommend it then
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun and random !!! , but food is hard and electric zombie is very OP just nerd them plz
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