Have a Nice Death

Have a Nice Death

Fair · Roguelike · 2023

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
9.6h
Value
$2.60/hr
Reviews
86% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
50% ($12.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
65% ($8.74)
Last discount ended
31 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.6h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
66.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.60
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
86%
10,807 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
81
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

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.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.60/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length9.6 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds12 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.74. It has been discounted 30 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Spiritfall ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Cursorblade ($1.99, scores 60).

12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,409 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 9.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 67, 6.9 times as much.

Players

35 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Have a Nice Death scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1740720/have-a-nice-death
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+5
Critics
81
Players
86
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 10,807 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMagic Design Studios
PublisherArc Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2023