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Life Goes On: Done to Death cover art

Life Goes On: Done to Death

Infinite Monkeys Entertainment Ltd. · k-Critical · 2014-04-17

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 23, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), May 17, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Apr 17, 2014 (Mac), Apr 17, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 17, 2014 (Linux)

A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.

Life Goes On: Done to Death is a $12.99 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2014, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (96% of 2438 reviews).

2
playing now
96%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
4.23★
PlayStation Store rating (283 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (160 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 61k–146k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,438 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
15015020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-14 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
861Apr 2014Oct 2025Apr 2014 — avg 20 · peak 57Aug 2014 — avg 1 · peak 14Dec 2014 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2016 — avg 12 · peak 49Dec 2016 — avg 4 · peak 14Apr 2017 — avg 6 · peak 47Aug 2017 — avg 6 · peak 17Dec 2017 — avg 5 · peak 15Apr 2018 — avg 6 · peak 20Aug 2018 — avg 50 · peak 411Dec 2018 — avg 8 · peak 20Apr 2019 — avg 7 · peak 19Aug 2019 — avg 10 · peak 30Dec 2019 — avg 17 · peak 64Apr 2020 — avg 7 · peak 29Aug 2020 — avg 5 · peak 14Dec 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2021 — avg 4 · peak 11Aug 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 9Dec 2022 — avg 4 · peak 10Apr 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$12.99$1.942015-01-012021-03-152015-01-01 — best price $7.792015-06-11 — best price $6.492015-08-28 — best price $8.702015-11-25 — best price $6.492015-12-22 — best price $6.492016-02-05 — best price $6.492016-05-17 — best price $9.742016-06-23 — best price $9.742016-07-25 — best price $8.702016-10-17 — best price $6.492016-11-23 — best price $6.492016-12-22 — best price $6.492017-01-16 — best price $4.412017-04-24 — best price $4.412017-06-22 — best price $3.892017-10-09 — best price $4.412017-11-22 — best price $4.412018-01-04 — best price $3.242018-02-15 — best price $4.412018-03-12 — best price $5.192018-07-05 — best price $2.592018-08-05 — best price $2.592018-10-22 — best price $5.192019-01-04 — best price $2.592019-01-25 — best price $3.892019-02-04 — best price $12.992019-03-11 — best price $3.892019-03-18 — best price $12.992019-05-24 — best price $12.992019-07-22 — best price $12.992019-12-17 — best price $12.992020-02-02 — best price $12.992020-03-02 — best price $12.992020-07-20 — best price $12.992020-10-12 — best price $12.992021-01-18 — best price $12.992021-02-15 — best price $12.992021-03-15 — best price $2.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
89%
earned "Meet Jeff"
2.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)4995%20

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyIndieCasualComedyPuzzleFantasyPhysicsAdventureDark HumorPlatformer

Census log

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

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