The Dead Await: Prologue
Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.
- Release Date:5/1/2023
- Franchise:Freedom Games
- Developer:Shotx
- Publishers:
- Last Updated:4/3/2026
- Steam App Id:1682330
The Dead Await: Prologue
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Steam Deck (Playable)
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, The Dead Await: Prologue has 1 concurrent player online and in-game. This is 91% lower than its previous all-time peak of 11 players achieved on 12/7/2023.
Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for The Dead Await: Prologue. It has received a total of 63 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 69 (Mostly Positive).
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for The Dead Await: Prologue and its growth over time. It currently has 3,155 followers on its community page.
About The Dead Await: Prologue
The Dead Await: Prologue is an Indie, and RPG game developed by Shotx. On 5/1/2023, it was released on the Steam Store by indie.io, and Freedom Games.
Players have rated The Dead Await: Prologue as "Mostly Positive" out of 63 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 48 positive reviews and 15 negative reviews — an overall 76% positive review rating.
It is available for gamers to download and play completely for free.
It can be played and ran on Windows systems. At the moment, it is possible to play The Dead Await: Prologue on the Steam Deck but some functionaliy may not be fully supported.
According to Steam’s category system, The Dead Await: Prologue supports the following features:
- Single-player
- Stats
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
From the Steam community, The Dead Await: Prologue has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Card Game
- Character Customization
- Loot
- Crafting
- Tutorial
- Story Rich
- Inventory Management
- Deckbuilding
- RPG
- Trading
- Base Building
- Party-Based RPG
- Resource Management
- Survival
- Open World
- Card Battler
- Zombies
- Post-apocalyptic
- Turn-Based Strategy
- Turn-Based Combat
- Gun Customization
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for The Dead Await: Prologue and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.
Supported Languages
The Dead Await: Prologue is available in 3 different languages with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
| Name | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | No | Yes |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Yes | No | Yes |
Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
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The Dead Await: Prologue data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2026, April 3). The Dead Await: Prologue on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1682330
- Valve Corporation. (2026, April 3). The Dead Await: Prologue. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1682330
- Shotx. (2023, July 8). The Dead Await: Prologue. The Dead Await: Prologue. http://shotxstudio.com