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Breath of Death VII

Zeboyd Digital Entertainment LLC · 2011-07-13

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 13, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 22, 2010 (Xbox 360)

Resurrect the classic era of RPGs with the retro parody RPG, Breath of Death VII: The Beginning. Join Dem the Skeleton Knight, Sara the ghost historian, Lita the vampire techie, and Erik the zombie prince as they explore an undead world in search of the secrets of the past. Laugh! Cry! Laugh some more!

0
playing now
84%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
56/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Breath of Death VII: The Beginning is an indie turn-based role-playing video game developed and published by Zeboyd Games. It was released on April 22, 2010, for Xbox 360 under the Xbox Live Arcade service, and on July 13, 2011, for Windows. It was later bundled with its spiritual successor, Cthulhu Saves the World, as a compilation pack. Despite the title, the game is standalone and unconnected to any other games. A parody of 8-bit Japanese role-playing games, it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which humans have gone extinct. The main character, an undead skeleton knight named Dem, is accompanied by other undead party members in a quest to stop an evil force. Breath of Death was positively received by critics, who commended its gameplay, story and low price, but also called it overly basic and generic. On December 12, 2024, a 16-bit-style remake was released as Breath of Death VII: The Beginning: Reanimated on Steam, developed by Shadow Layer Games.

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  • · Top 20% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 59k–117k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,465 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.442015-01-012021-02-152015-01-01 — best price $0.982015-02-09 — best price $0.472015-04-13 — best price $0.442015-06-11 — best price $0.442015-06-29 — best price $0.442015-09-28 — best price $0.442015-10-29 — best price $0.442015-11-25 — best price $0.502015-12-22 — best price $0.502016-02-05 — best price $0.502016-03-14 — best price $0.982016-04-28 — best price $0.982016-06-23 — best price $0.982016-07-25 — best price $0.982018-06-22 — best price $0.982018-07-30 — best price $0.982018-10-01 — best price $0.982018-10-30 — best price $0.502018-11-21 — best price $0.892018-12-20 — best price $0.892019-01-07 — best price $1.192019-02-04 — best price $0.892019-05-13 — best price $0.982019-06-26 — best price $0.982019-10-28 — best price $0.592019-11-26 — best price $0.892019-12-19 — best price $0.892020-01-23 — best price $1.492020-03-02 — best price $1.492020-06-25 — best price $0.502020-10-05 — best price $1.192020-10-29 — best price $0.592020-11-25 — best price $1.192020-12-22 — best price $1.192021-01-25 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $1.492021-02-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGFunnyIndieRetroShortComedyFantasyParody

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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