Have a Nice Death

Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.

Have a Nice Death is a action roguelike, hack and slash and singleplayer game developed by Magic Design Studios and published by Arc Games.
Released on March 22nd 2023 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 9,576 reviews of which 8,280 were positive and 1,296 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Have a Nice Death into these genres:

Action Roguelike Hack and Slash Singleplayer Action Funny 2D 2D Platformer Dark Humor Cartoony Cartoon Rogue-like Gothic Rogue-lite Controller Comedy Combat Early Access Indie Metroidvania Platformer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64-Bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3 6100
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or higher | AMD R7 360 or higher - Some crashes may occur with Integrated graphics (GPU built into the processor)
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Specifications are not final and are subject to change. Intel HD may crash.

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

A great 2D platformer with outstanding humour. Especially if you have ever worked in an office! Mechanically solid, it has been improved a lot since release with new mechanics and options, additional difficulty settings, progression mechanics and departments (game levels). If the genre is even remotely up your alley, I definitely recommend trying this game.

Nov. 2024

I liked the graphics, the mechanics but i felt much frustrated with bosses difficulty

April 2024

Prob in the 7/10 category. Graphics/style are top notch, and the game play can be a lot of fun. That being said it can be a bit frustrating and the rogue like nature can make it more repetitive than I like, especially with limited progress in-between.

Jan. 2024

Had my eye on Have a Nice Death since Early access. I'm not disappointed. 42 hours and I've been able to beat all the mini & main bosses. Animation and art style captured my attention and the game play makes the loop really fun. With multiple different main / side weapons as well as spells each run can be played very differently. There are also hundreds of powers or "curses" which can also make every run different from the last. I bought this on sale would certainly recommend it!

Jan. 2024

Some Game Recommendations Similar Experience Death Cells (One of the leaders of this type) Blazblue Entrophy Effect (Has a character-based combo system, less randomness to runs) Rogue Legacy 2 (Good variety and good to have meta upgrades) Skull: The Hero Slayer (Fun gameplay and concept, not so easy gameplay, similarities with combat system) Something Different Hades (For having somewhat similar concept about death and rogue-lite) Katamari Damacy Reroll (Has a weird humour to explore weird setting) Death’s Door (Somewhat has a resemblance to the setting) Review Have a Nice Death is a roguelike platformer game with a setting around Death as a character and working environments. It has a nice flavour of humour with its satire attitude towards concepts like death and overworking. This is a definitive positive side of the game. It provides a fun ride with the characters and their relationships. Each area comes with a theme that involves around deaths like mental health, and wars. This way the game provides you change of events with new designs. The gameplay is fast paced and there is no much of a problem I’ve encountered with playing Death. Our character has a scythe as a main weapon, it uses one button to create a combo with the character. Yet there are two slots for you to fill to give combat a flavour. There are many spells and cloak (weapon moves) for you to fill these slots. These abilities also have their own extra advantage for the user with bonusses they provide, and can be upgraded during the gameplay. This provides a variety on the runs you have. Yet one of the issues I had with the game is these abilities aren’t part of a combo or can be used to vary your combo. They’re basically spells for you to spam. The game also has a skill tree that changes and resets each run. The skill three consists of 3 branches which are coloured red, blue and green. Red trees are mainly for buffing scythe or cloak attacks. Blue tree is for gaining several opportunities like gaining more run-based currencies (souls) or gaining more max HP. Finally, the green ones are to gaining more mana or increasing spell damage. Each branch has a level of 1-6. When levels are increased the possibilities of gaining more powerful skill increases. The number of possibilities and cursed possibilities you can get for each branch increases or decreases each run. This change sometimes encourages you to try another build and leave your comfort zone. But the other times it just ruins the build you make. There are plenty of bosses, and they have good variables of attack moves, likewise the mobs have similar quantity. Maps have similar design for each area. If you spend few runs you start to get the outline of the maps, stages offer you. Each room has their own gifts for you to collect. These buffs can be collected after you beat the room’s challenge. These challenges are some enemies spawning in a locked room with an order, or defeating mini bosses. The gifts can be souls, upgrades, abilities, prisms (which are very rare run currency) and gold (used for meta progression and cosmetics). Most of these gifts are not game changing though. The main issue most of the players have with the game, it is too difficult. This paragraph might spoil some of the secret story points so you can skip if you want to not get spoiled. The idea behind making the story keep going each time you completed a run is actually clever on the paper. But with each run it becomes harder, and I’m not so sure the third completion will be the final for the story. After beating the first final boss and wasn’t able to finish the game and seeing the final credits to learn there is more to story was neat thing to see first time. But after I defeated the next final boss who was a time machine maniac, I didn’t feel much of a relief because I knew there was another one right after beating him. Beating this guy was a big achievement on its own though (only %6 of the players was able to do this). But the process was pure on luck to have some over powered skills synced with the arsenal I had. I wasn’t able to get to that point after on. That was so disappointing to need a very good run, in order to face the final boss. Making the game this hard and making it as a rogue-lite game is definitely not a good decision in my opinion. To put these in a short way this is a game with pretty solid characters, fun story and good gameplay. It suffers from some of the design decisions, that makes it harder to deal with and sometimes pure on luck. But in the end, I would totally recommend for most of the people who want to have a good time.

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