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A Healer Only Lives Twice

Pon Pon Games · PLAYISM · 2016-06-02

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 11, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 25, 2015 (PlayStation Vita), Jun 03, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

All You Need Is Heal! Monsters have cornered you in the dungeon corridors. As a newly hired Priest, your duties are to use your magical abilities to heal your comrade, a Knight on the front-line, and provide support during battle. Will these two brave souls live to see the light of day again?

A Healer Only Lives Twice is an Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2016, priced at $4.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 242 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

1
playing now
81%
positive of 242 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
4.36★
PlayStation Store rating (226 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 50,746 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.0k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 242 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2019-10-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920162026Week of 2016-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-16 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 14:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.492016-06-032026-08-062016-06-03 — best price $4.492016-09-08 — best price $4.492017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-05-05 — best price $4.992017-07-10 — best price $4.992017-11-13 — best price $4.992018-01-25 — best price $4.992018-05-28 — best price $2.992018-09-19 — best price $2.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-04-01 — best price $4.992019-06-03 — best price $4.992019-08-22 — best price $4.992019-11-10 — best price $1.492020-01-09 — best price $1.492020-02-27 — best price $1.492020-05-07 — best price $1.492020-10-29 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $1.492021-06-05 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.492022-01-27 — best price $1.492022-11-22 — best price $1.992023-01-16 — best price $1.492023-08-01 — best price $1.492024-02-01 — best price $1.492024-08-07 — best price $1.492024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-05-21 — best price $2.492025-12-04 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-08-06 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
71.1%
earned "Once"
17.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6778%13
PS4 (PlayStation)41814%13

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGCuteIndieCasualLinearFantasyCartoonyStrategySurvivalTactical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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