Regarding bugs or exploits, few players have managed to no-clip in map objects in older versions.

The game's creative directors include TheSyndicateProject, and SeaNanners,[4] with the help of VanossGaming.

Dead Realm was made available through the Steam Early Access platform, and was fully released on May 23, 2017.

By 2018 the reviews became extremely negative, with customers complaining about a high amount of software bugs, a lack of developer support, and the lack of a large playerbase making it impossible to play casually, requiring the player to have multiple friends that own the game to be able to play it.

[7] After the three YouTubers involved in production of Dead Realm (Adam Montoya, Tom Cassell, and Evan Fong) published their Let's Play videos about the game, they encountered controversy due to the fact that they did not clearly disclose their financial ties to the game, which constituted a violation of the FTC's ".com Disclosures" set of guidelines.