Deep Dish Dungeon Metacritic: Why There Is No Score Yet

What the page actually shows

The entry exists and is not empty. It lists Raw Fury as publisher, Behold Studios as developer, Action RPG as the genre, and PC plus Xbox Series X as platforms.

The score container itself carries title="Metascore tbd" and renders the letters tbd rather than a number. Alongside it, the page reports "Based on 3 Critic Reviews". That combination — reviews present, score absent — is the whole answer, and it is why searching for a score keeps landing on pages that guess.

Why there is no score

Metacritic does not publish a Metascore until it has enough critic reviews to produce one. With three reviews attached, this game is below that line, and the page says so by refusing to render a number rather than by printing a stand-in value.

There is no indication that the missing score reflects a bad game. Two other data points argue the opposite: the Steam user score is 79% positive, and OpenCritic's five reviews median at 80. The score is missing because the sample is small, not because the game scored badly.

What to read instead

OpenCritic is the only place currently producing a cross-outlet number. It also leaves its own top-critic score ungenerated and its tier field empty, which is the same "not enough data" problem expressed differently.

Steam's percentage is a different measurement entirely. It counts every buyer who left a review, not a curated set of outlets, and it should never be converted into a ten-point score — a page that does that is inventing a number.

What "tbd" means in practice

The score container on Metacritic is rendered with the text tbd rather than a number, and three critic reviews sit underneath it. The site does not publish the threshold it uses, so the literal reading is the safest one: not enough has been counted yet.

That is different from a page nobody maintains. This one is being updated — reviews are attached, the platform list is filled — it simply has no score to show.

PC and Xbox are counted separately

Metacritic lists two platforms, PC and Xbox Series X, and the three attached reviews are PC reviews. The Xbox entry has no independent critic score of its own.

If a score appears later, expect the two pages to differ. Console coverage for an indie release is usually thinner than PC coverage, and a five-review median and a three-review nothing are both small samples.

Reading a "no score" page correctly

An unscored Metacritic page is not a verdict, and treating it as one is the most common mistake people make with this game's reception. Two other numbers exist and both are positive: 79% from 757 Steam reviews, and a median of 80 across five OpenCritic reviews.

What is genuinely unknown is how a larger pool of outlets would score it. The three reviews attached so far include the harshest one published, so a score built from a wider sample could land above or below the median OpenCritic already shows.

What would move this page is narrow: a fourth critic review, or a public statement from the developer about when to expect coverage. Neither has happened as of 27 October 2026.

The honest summary is a sentence rather than a number: critics who played alone were hard on it, critics who played in company were not, and the aggregate has not caught up.

The gap between critics and players

The interesting figure here is not any single score but the distance between them. Player sentiment sits at 79% positive while only 60% of critics recommend the game — a fourteen-point spread in the players' favour.

Part of that is sample size: 757 players against five critics. Part of it is selection, since people who bought a $14.99 co-op dungeon crawler are not a neutral panel. And part of it is real: the criticism that recurs in reviews, the six-slot inventory, is exactly the friction a co-op partner removes.

What the reviews say, briefly

The three critic reviews already attached are not hostile. TechRaptor's 6/10 is the low anchor and argues that the game does not work solo; DualShockers and Saving Content both land positive, with the latter opening on almost quitting before turning around.

The pattern in the quotes is consistent: strong hand-built dungeon, solid puzzles, punishing inventory, and a food system critics either find novel or find boring. The full breakdown, with quotes, is on the review page.

What about user scores?

Metacritic's user reviews load through JavaScript and are not present in the page's server-rendered HTML, so this page does not report a user score at all. Quoting one would mean quoting something that was never read.

If you want a player-side number, Steam's 79% is the honest one: it is public, dated, and tied to a specific sample size.

Quick answers

What is the Metacritic score for Deep Dish Dungeon?

There is none yet. The page exists with three critic reviews and shows "tbd" instead of a Metascore.

Why is it unscored?

The review sample is too small for Metacritic to generate a Metascore. Three reviews are attached; the site has not published a score from them.

What score does OpenCritic show?

A median of 80 across five reviews, with 60% recommending and two top-critic reviews counted. It does not generate a tier either.

Is the game poorly reviewed?

No. Steam sits at 79% positive, and the press splits between a 6/10 and positive write-ups rather than clustering low.