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Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Developer Silent Dreams
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead. From the Steam store page
179 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
121 positive · 56 negative
95% range 61–75%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,024 of 1,343 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 179 · most liked firstI was going to write a detailed, proper review but eh, forget it. Do I recommend this? Depends. Do you love resource management? Turn based battles that eventually become extremely tedious and repetitive yet you can't stop because you need more loot? Do you love the idea you would have to start all over from scratch if you died? Yeah this is for you. Now do you hate what I just said? Yeah not for you. Also if you're going to be a child about the "old school" graphics, yeah forget it. Because…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I almost feel like a traitor by leaving a negative review on this game but I really can’t recommend it. This game has so much of what I like in a game. A mix of survival management and sandbox adventuring with a zombie apocalypse theme: everything meant to make me an addict. This game claims to be inspired by This War of Mine, Darkest Dungeon, Fallout and Walking Dead: I’m a fan of all of these and, clearly, the creators of this game are too. The mix of all these inspirations is not even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →22 hours for nothing my lord ♥♥♥♥ is brutal Every zombie crit on my main guy with full hp, time to restart. I really liked DA1 so I wishlisted and bought this on release, but everything about this game feels boring There are no stakes, I care about none of these people. In the original, you are fighting to protect and improve your own camp, and deeply care about your party members. I couldn't give less of a ♥♥♥♥ about Leonardo or whoever else just happened upon my camp. They are nothing but a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead Age 2 is a turn based battler with pseudo strategy/rpg elements. Pros: + For its price, it can be considered an accomplishment as much as a mediocre flash game. Cons: - Repetitive and slow combat. (And no auto-resolve) - Mindless grind. - Ugly UI, ugly fonts and ugly 2d art. - Low variety on everything. - Boring. - Below average sound design. - Boring story. Final: 3/10 After 9 hours i gave up and silenced the completionist in me due to mindless grind and boredom game threw me. Has low…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The short: This game is a messy passion project, whose charm is undone by several crippling game design mistakes. Although some elements are done well, as in cooking there's just no getting past the rotten elements. Not recommended. The long: This is a legitimately fascinating cautionary tale of cart-before-the-horse game design philosophy. This is a video game which is a video game first, and everything other artistic element (plot, dialogue, player interaction, atmosphere) is crudely warped…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The combat gets tedious after a while. And the vast majority of the game is combat. The game gets tedious after a while. This should be 10hrs but instead somehow I have 20+ hrs on record and I never finished the game. But this wasn't because I wasnt going to finish but I couldnt because I ran into a game breaking bug. The game also has this nonsensical repetition mechanic that when you die the game starts over and some of your stats carry over. It is not enjoyable in the slightest. Also the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A 30 hour story-based RPG does not mix well with permadeath.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Good Survival aspects are fun. Your camp must feed and drink. You must make hard decisions to allocate resources to either food, defense, or outfitting your going-out crew. The Bad Combat is slow and boring. Selecting attacks and targets is extremely cumbersome requiring multiple clicks through slow menus. The Grind. Everything has a cost and you can only find a little bit of each ingredient as you trudge through each location. Final Thoughts Dead Age 2 is not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead Age 2 does some things right and I want to enjoy it... but I don't. There's too many enemy encounters. It's fine at first... but it gets very time consuming and mind numbing. Rinse & repeat etc etc etc... It gives me that "at work" feeling. Working to achieve a goal but not having fun doing it. Part of the reason might be the story. There's not much and so far its been very bland and gamey. None of characters get enough screen time to make me care about them. Another part might be the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun, up until the story starts progressing rapidly... at which point the obnoxiously high "random encounter" rate becomes grueling, and grating on the nerves. I really can't even describe how friggen annoying it is when the quest forces you to visit several HQ's in a row (one's I've already been to 20+ times) [Apparently radios stop working for stupid stuff] and have 10 random encounters. Random encounters are just time and resource sinks. If you're using ammo, it'll cost you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am editing this since within 24 hours of the first review not only was my issue fixed, but the dev was kind enough to respond to let me know. Dead Age 2 is a very fun zombie survival/turn based RPG that will provide you with hours of entertainment if you enjoy the turn based old school RPG format. The game improves on practically everything the first game did. A great sequel by dev's who obviously care very much about their game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not enjoyable for me. Resources are so hard to find and so easy to use that I personally found myself just dying alot. It seems this is the theme of the game since you then pick upgrades to restart the game. I personally find this frustrating having to begin again from the very beginning of the game only to redo several quests I had already done. There is no save option so plan to play hardcore mode every play through. You make a mistake and hours of playing has to be repeated.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun for a while, but gets boring and repetitive fast. The balance isn't particularly good. Seems pointless to start with ranged weapons skills since bullets are so hard to come by at first. Pretty shallow overall. And the UI is frustrating. Like how in some cases the TAB key backs out instead of the ESC key, etc. Note: I played the first one too and for around the same amount of hours. Both interesting but since it's only ya or nay here (I'd give it a 6 out of 10 otherwise). It's not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-------------------------------- Overall: 3/10 -------------------------------- - It's simply too grindy and tedious to play -------------------------------- The good: -------------------------------- - Combat: The turn based combat is generally rather engaging and there are plenty of methods to deal with your enemies - Control scheme is easy to learn and feels natural -------------------------------- The Meh: -------------------------------- - Graphics: Acceptable - Audio: Acceptable…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I first discovered "Dead Age" on the XBox. I sunk quite a few hours into the game, really enjoying the fresh take on a genre that has seen some bloat over the years. I liked it so much I got it for my computer and invested another 25 to 30 hours or so. Needless to say when the sequel dropped, I was quite excited. When it first came out I didn't invest too much time, just enough to sate my excitement. From the developer's posts I knew they were going to make several updates so I waited…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More of the same from Dead Age 1. But nearly everything is improved, there is more exploration, more quests, better story, 3 factions to interact with, shops, base building, crafting and what's the most fun, tons of loot and turn based combat. I still recommend starting with first game before this one because in part two you will meet and interact with nearly 15 npc/survivors from first game. Game is also often on sale for like 5 bucks. I had funn in my 55h and there is still hardcore mode left…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really fun game, and big improvement over the first one. Graphics improved a lot, the characters, the zombies, the animals, very detailed and polished. Now you can see the equipment on your survivors, when you change their gear. Also, the UI is cleaner and more understandable while maintaining that cool "notebook look". The new base is great, with the fallout shelter style. And the different environments while exploring are gorgeous and very detailed. The new animated portraits are also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has some good ideas. But the combat is just so bad. It says it wants to be like so many good combat games, and then manages to make something just underwhelming. The zombies almost always have a ranged attack, so it makes your gun feel pointless. Just close the distance and bash them down to save expensive ammo.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is such a disappointment in so many ways. 3/10 From the very start of the game, it will have your eyes rolling, with frustration and laughing in pity at the direction the writing/story took, instead of having a well-stocked base and/or several members who know what they are doing. You are placed with a bunch of scrubs who can barely wipe their own behinds. In fact, if the RNG turns against you, you might only have two members who actually do anything, cause Jack apparently lost all…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY IT. Another unity scrap game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Watching other people play it turned out to be more entertaining than playing it myself. Otherwise not a bad game, just not for me despite my appreciation of zombie genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have edited my review and changed it. I was finally able to complete one full play-through and reach one ending to the story. I might play again to get a different ending. There are pros and cons to the game and my original review was quite negative and at that time I did not recommend the game. After having finally been able to complete the game, my opinion has changed. PROS -Art work is really spot on for the game and goes well with the style -music is quite enjoyable and appropriate for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I like the looting and survival aspects of the game, I can't recommend the tedious amount of combat you have to go through. I'm on day 10 (the in-game time) and I've already had to face at least MINIMUM ~100 combat scenarios. Combat is slow and time consuming, and cannot be skipped. The game also requires you to move to the same outpost SEVERAL times. Which means you have to trudge through a lot of zombies and more combat, and at this point I'm already bored of fighting the same enemies.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is poorly designed I cant believe they made a 2. The quest line ok but confused half the time where to go to complete missions. In combat you cant control where you attack some of the time. Yuck im sure somebody likes this game I did not. Game does not uninstall correctly. uninstalled the game from steam yet its still showing on my desktop 6.51 GB,
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly bland and repetitive game play. Even on sale, I regret the purchase
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very repetitive and game economy is way off. But I like it. Only real difference is better graphics and audio over DA1. Get it on discount. You'll like it too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quick and honest review (non-biased): This is a hardcore zombie survival RPG with lots of elements put into one game. It is a game where you manage a base, explore for supplies, help survivors, and work with factions. With that said, you are presented with lots of options to choose from on a daily basis. In this kind of game, every choice does in fact matter. That is pretty much the jist of the game. Why I am not recommending it (biased): The game just feels really unbalanced and it is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an excellent turn-based RPG! I played the first one, and I find this sequel slightly better—mainly thanks to the new map-based travel system. Aside from that, the differences between the two games aren't major. If you enjoy strategic, turn-based gameplay, this title is definitely worth your time. Don't expect flashy visuals—the graphics are intentionally minimalistic. The hardcore mode suited me perfectly, especially as someone with experience in turn-based RPGs. I appreciated the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is how i play DEAD AGE 2 GAME: - Start game -> Setting game: hardcore -> Read bla bla char chatting -> Click click -> Tessa DIE (no idea wat going on o,o) - Start game again -> Setting game: hardcore -> Read carefully character chat text (with help from GOOGLE TRANSLATION because the English in this game makes me feel strangely difficult to understand -> Click Click -> First day zombie defense failed -> Tessa DIE AGAIN :v -> Uninstall game -> Go to sleep! - Install game again cuz want to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good RPG with incredible depth in most aspects that matter, even decisions you make during quests affect you heavily down the line, which is a system a lot of modern RPG games are lacking. Has a very addictive gameplay loop identical to This War of Mine but with far more engaging combat, and benefits immensely from future planning. Survivors can be good at combat or good at jobs in your base, but not both. So it is important to build upon their existing strengths, trying to be a jack of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Platinum Trophy #773 - Dead Age 2! Not as fun as the first, and the brutal RNG made it a slog to get through. Restarting a game for 23 hours to get one event to spawn is not even my idea of fun. 😅 #TrophyHunter #PlatinumTrophy #PlayStation #DeadAge2
unlabelledView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fernando tells Sarah that she should stay in the kitchen in the first 20 minutes of the game. 10/10 would hang out with Fernando again. This game can spend the next 10 hours as a CNB torture simulator and I'll always fondly remenber Fernando, my hispanic homeboy. EDIT: After putting some time into this game, I can say that there is a lot of things that lack polish. For example, not being able to get all 3 factions to join your end game thing despite getting all 3 to agree. There's even…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the story is amazing!! I love all those politics and conspiracies!! you will "one more mission" to uncover the truth.. this is not an ordinary turn based rpg zombie game. the decision you make, the side quests you take will have consequences on your story.. the only downside: -no manual save; -can not retreat or run; -can not heal other character in battle.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well well, what a neat little find this game was! Started as "Mreh! Too hard!" After 3 hours? "Way too easy... I'm overflowing with resources" Weird ride. All in all I'm loving it as a hardcore zombie fan. Just never gets old for me. My only criticisms would be 1. Game dialogue is rife with typos and bad grammar. 2. Because this game isn't very popular, the info online is EXTREMELY limited. Lots of questions about how to get certain things. 3. Devs only seem to be responding to the negative…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ah, Dead Age 2 is back with vengeance! It is what store page says, but is it really? Again, we have "turn based finial fantasy combat perma death" without bigger changes in format from Dead Age 1. Combat did get some rework as well as camp management, but it was far too complicated for it's own good. However, there's a great quality increased compared to the previous game. Protagonist from DA1, is present in DA2, but we get a new character to roleplay as. Zombies aren't your classical dumboss…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually really enjoyed the very first game. Dead Age 1: Had a lot going for it, I loved it. And I was truly quite excited for the sequel. This franchise truly isn't quite for everyone. It's quite repetitive, It can be a little clunky. But there are honestly many things to love. Especially if you are into old-school games. Because the main gameplay is: Turn-Based. And I simply do love Turn-Based goodness. Both games were challenging to complete. I'd say the Dead Age 2 is a little bit harder.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It could be a good game combat is interesting, lots of skills, base building seems good, just a lot of confusing party systems. I died and started another run and one of the main NPCs was just missing and no way to add anyone else to my party so I was stuck with two and there's no way that will turn out good. So I died and started another run now the other NPC was back and the one I had on the last run was missing. Then I gave up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed DA1 a lot, so I'm glad that for DA2, a lot of features that I wished for have actually been included. What I like: - The game in general lol - Graphics, animation, etc. have been improved a lot since DA1 - Returning characters from DA1 - Open world with many more things to do - Combat system is fun with more variety What I dont like: - Random encounters are somewhat annoying with little value added to the team (upgrades, resources, etc.) especially on my 2nd playthru when I have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much better than first one, but now we need remakes or something since it continues the story of the first part
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I explored as much of the map as it would let me and there were areas that require Faction Points with various groups to get any further. The game just became a no-stop grind for resources that I'm not willing to continue. I would give this a game a, "Maybe". If you like grinding and zombie games then buy it. If grinding is not your thing then I'd recommend a pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like I'm repeating other comments, but that's fine. This reinforces other commenters' positive reviews. I played the first one, and waited until this was on sale to buy it because the first one was a 7 or 8 out of 10. I think I got a really good deal this way, because this game is a 9/10 in my book, and I got it for 1/2 price, I think. The turn-based combat and character development works just as well, if not better, than in the last game. You still have to manage making your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will only say two sentences ,Zombie throws a molotov and a wolf has a ranged attack
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, I'd like to say that I don't really hate this game. It's just I can't recommend this if you plan to finish the game because it's difficult to survive even at casual difficulty. You can run out of medkits and other resources if you head out to complete a quest on your own or even with another survivor. I've died 3-4 times already and most of them are at casual difficulty. That's why I'm going to give this game a 5/10. It's not bad but not good either. I wish there was a mixed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've always enjoyed the Dead Age games. Dead Age 2 is no exception. Combat is incredibly addictive, the leveling system, the challenge progression, and the basebuilding are all great attributes. In Dead Age 2 I'd say the story can be a bit rough at times, it has good ideas but I don't think the author has quite perfected dialogue yet. Still the developers are small and dedicated and I'm excited to see what Dead Age Survivors brings down the line.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoyed the first game, this is the same with better graphics. The campaign was a slog.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was LITERALLY unplayable for me with menus overlaying other menus and half the stuff off the screen. It seems like devs didn't even BOTHER to have ANY type of QA testing for this on various resolutions cuz if they had they would have seen that it's impossible to read the story or play the actual game with all sorts of menus and clunk UI sitting over top of each other on a 3840x1080 resolution. This is gonna be the easiest refund of my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It didn't fix a lot of the problems I had with the original, but it's still a solid offering. It's a little slow and grindy, but fun, with interesting narratives, and mechanics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not really a bad game, but for me the negatives outveights the positives, so lets go with simple list here. pros: +the begining feels quite hard and every victory is earned, ammo and resources are scarce, exploring is fun +the story is decent +combat system is fine and fun cons: -The combat gets repetitive quite fast, and it is even worse since you cannot respec to try out different skills. And yoiur other team members who are stuck in camp for some time are behind in levels, so not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a bad grinding game. After grinding for about 20 hours, I used cheats to 1 hit enemies with a shotgun and still made little progress. This way finally the mediocre story got rolling. Endless back and forth is so annoying, to get from quest to quest. Developers did learn nothing from their first bad game! It is even more tidious this time around. The start is overwhelming with all those different stats and items and abilities. But in the end you end up using only 2-3. 50% is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another game with annoying systems, bad designs, too much hand holding, and just not fun to play. How do you make a game "inspired by" Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1&2, This War of Mine, and the Walking Dead; yet manage to fumble every single one of them and leave it feeling like none of them. 0/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Relaxing game despite the zombie ambientation. It is quite repetitive but enjoyable nonetheless. Not the cup of tea for everybody, but I got it on sale and was worthy of the price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Lots of good strategy. It's one of those "I'll just play one more turn then go to bed" games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No one is Going to read this review so i want to confess that i am gay
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the one hand, this is the good jank. It's cobbled together from (what I presume are) unity store assets from the first game, and there's a bigger scope and some slightly more polished mechanics, but it's still the same small-numbers-and-resource-management zombie survival jrpg as Dead Age 1. On the other hand, Dead Age 2 is long, and a lot of it feels like grind. The game is an auto-saver with permadeath, and playing thoroughly and safely you might expect a 25+ hour runtime. This does…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Turn based strategy, zombie survival, and choices matter. If you like these you will like this game. Big fan of the first game and this one is great too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An average roguelike mixed with RPG. 3D Graphics of characters, creatures and backgrounds are good, drawings of items and characters are so ugly as those of first title and neither it don't let to undoing some choices, at least software still runs without bugs. Mechanics has the same simplicity than previous title. Player control his character and can manage others, less than previous game, can choose the arms, clothes and items that carry anyone of them, equipment variety is limited but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat strategy isn't very deep but has turned out to be a great background game while listening to new music. Just had to get over being bored for the first half hour.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was done with this game when a zombie threw a molotov cocktail at me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The sequel continues to develop ideas of the original, most developments are welcome and positive. It's a quite interesting game and it requires making some calculations, making you think tactically and strategically (even on the low difficulty), e.g. on higher difficulties some fights are better be avoided than won, even if you win them your team may be left too low on health, supplies or ammo... or you can lose a character. And losing an experienced character may be not fatal, but finding a…
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