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Left 4 Dead

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
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Release date
Nov 17, 2008
Store page updated
Apr 23, 2025
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

88.4/ 100

Based on 393 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 96% of 384
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 68,175
“recommends L4D2 as the better choice in the series”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.88
Difficulty +1.65

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Story & World
+2.72
World +3.69
“physics and headless zombie mechanics are peak game design” (39)

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Content Volume
+1.33
Volume +0.37

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Visuals & Sound
+2.49
Visuals +1.83
“excellent visuals and immersion for its time” (20)
为2代奠基的经典作品。虽然由于发售过早导致游戏至今也没有接入创意工坊，日活也远远不及2代，但仅需核显就能上手的配置要求、在当时可称优秀的画面与沉浸感、时至今日极其亲民的价位使得本作无论是收藏还是上手游玩都是一部值得入手的作品。当然，时至今日的求1由于2代包括了1代的所有内容，导致其日活被进一步压缩，在没有开黑队伍的情况下新手很难找到一个纯净主线服，没有创意工坊也进一步限制了游戏体验的多样化，因此若要游玩本作，个人仅推荐游玩单人战役，多人联机还是更推荐服务器丰富、mod多样的2代。 基础分5 为传奇奠基的开山之作+2 时至今日依旧尚可的沉浸感+2 无创意工坊-2 总分7/10

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Multiplayer
+1.53
Playing together +3.67
“cooperative gameplay forces teamwork, each run is random and thrilling with friends” (101)
▬▬▬► ОСТОРОЖНО, ВЕДЬМА! ◄▬▬▬ Left 4 Dead - это игра, которая официально научила меня ненавидеть плач маленьких девочек в темноте и проверять каждый чертов угол. Прошло уже куча лет, а этот зомби-шутер до сих пор играется бодрее и веселее, чем весь современный кооперативный мусор. Тут нельзя быть «крутым одиночкой». Стоит тебе отбежать на пару метров в сторону, как тебя ловит Охотник, и ты покорно ждешь, пока твои тиммейты (если они не дебилы) соизволят тебя спасти. Ты никогда не знаешь, откуда на тебя вывалится толпа или где этот гений решит заспавнить Танка прямо перед безопасной комнатой. Ка

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Fairness
-0.58

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +3.33

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Tech & Ops
-0.40
Performance +3.30

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Oct 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 378 reviews, peak 20/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 393 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English38%
  • Spanish18%
  • Russian17%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Chinese5%
  • Ukrainian3%
  • Other7%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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