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Instant Death

Tayfun Zeytun · My Way Games · 2018-01-22

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 14, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), TBD (PlayStation 5), Jan 22, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 2024 (PlayStation 4)

Super hardcore first-person game.

Instant Death is an Action, Casual and Indie game released in 2018, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (71% of 109 reviews).

1
playing now
71%
positive of 109 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 109 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2022-05-23) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720182026Week of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.592018-01-232026-08-032018-01-23 — best price $5.392018-05-31 — best price $2.032018-08-14 — best price $5.992018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-21 — best price $2.692019-02-21 — best price $1.012019-06-26 — best price $3.592019-10-28 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-02-18 — best price $5.392020-04-21 — best price $4.402020-05-23 — best price $5.992020-10-01 — best price $2.392020-11-25 — best price $2.392021-04-10 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $2.392021-10-28 — best price $1.792021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-05-23 — best price $0.592022-09-06 — best price $1.492022-11-22 — best price $2.032023-02-27 — best price $2.032023-04-26 — best price $1.792023-06-30 — best price $0.592023-08-05 — best price $29.992023-11-03 — best price $29.992023-12-17 — best price $29.992024-01-30 — best price $29.992024-04-27 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-09-09 — best price $29.992024-12-18 — best price $29.992025-02-14 — best price $29.992025-05-04 — best price $0.842025-07-24 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-24 — best price $9.992026-06-20 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
4%
earned "First Death"
0.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieActionCasualParkourStrategyDifficultIlluminatiFirst-PersonSingleplayer3D Platformer

Census log

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

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