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A Way To Be Dead cover art

A Way To Be Dead

Crania Games · 2021-07-23

Steam

AdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 23, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A Way to be Dead is an asymmetrical multiplayer (up to 5 players) horror game. Players can take on the role of killer, the victims, or even the undeads. Escape | Kill | Eat...

70%
positive of 94 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 84% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (37 reviews).
  • · Top 68% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 94 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.04 at Steam (2025-07-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
202020212026Week of 2021-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$1.042021-07-232025-07-102021-07-23 — best price $6.992021-12-18 — best price $5.942022-06-28 — best price $3.012022-07-06 — best price $2.922022-07-19 — best price $2.892022-08-23 — best price $5.662022-08-30 — best price $5.702022-09-06 — best price $5.662022-09-14 — best price $5.682022-09-24 — best price $5.512022-09-29 — best price $5.522022-10-05 — best price $5.682022-10-08 — best price $5.542022-10-19 — best price $5.612022-10-25 — best price $1.742022-11-03 — best price $5.592022-11-07 — best price $5.652022-12-23 — best price $5.962022-12-30 — best price $5.992023-01-06 — best price $5.912023-01-14 — best price $6.092023-01-25 — best price $6.122023-02-02 — best price $6.192023-02-06 — best price $6.062023-02-13 — best price $6.002023-02-23 — best price $5.962023-02-27 — best price $5.932023-03-22 — best price $6.052023-04-10 — best price $6.132023-04-17 — best price $6.172023-05-08 — best price $6.192023-05-12 — best price $6.132023-05-19 — best price $6.052023-05-29 — best price $6.022023-06-16 — best price $6.152023-06-26 — best price $6.132023-07-13 — best price $6.992024-03-14 — best price $2.302024-06-27 — best price $1.392025-07-10 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

ActionHorrorStealthZombiesFightingSurvivalAdventureAtmosphericPsychedelicEarly Access

Census log

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

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