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Nobody Wants to Die

Critical Hit Games · PLAION · 2024-07-17

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 17, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 17, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 17, 2024 (PlayStation 5)

Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.

27
playing now
83%
positive of 7.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (76 ratings)
5.8h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 8.5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

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

Nobody Wants to Die is a 2024 adventure video game developed by Critical Hit Games and published by Plaion. It was released on 17 July 2024 for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 27 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,603 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~200/week).
  • · Review velocity up 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 147k–332k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 7,374 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.75-85%
GOG$3.75-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.75-85%
Humble Store$4.99-80%
Microsoft Store$4.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2026-02-18) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $27.94 · on sale 73 of 220 observed days · $0.01 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20242026Week of 2024-07-01: 1,189 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 188 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 37 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

140202026-08-06 22:00 — 88 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 48 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 77 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 82 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 63 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 99 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 104 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 55 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 140 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 89 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 48 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 103 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 78 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 38 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 82 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 63 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 38 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 95 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 96 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 33 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 42 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 54 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 36 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 57 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 64 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 26 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 27 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 47 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 27 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$27.94$3.742024-07-172026-08-302024-07-17 — best price $22.492024-09-16 — best price $21.242024-10-11 — best price $21.242024-11-18 — best price $21.242024-12-05 — best price $17.492025-01-20 — best price $16.242025-02-25 — best price $24.992025-03-21 — best price $18.742025-04-25 — best price $24.992025-06-03 — best price $18.742025-07-16 — best price $14.992025-08-26 — best price $9.992025-10-20 — best price $6.242025-11-18 — best price $27.042025-11-28 — best price $26.982025-12-10 — best price $27.142025-12-22 — best price $27.402026-01-05 — best price $6.242026-01-14 — best price $27.182026-01-26 — best price $27.612026-02-05 — best price $27.522026-02-17 — best price $27.592026-02-27 — best price $27.542026-03-11 — best price $27.022026-03-23 — best price $27.052026-04-02 — best price $24.992026-04-14 — best price $3.752026-04-24 — best price $27.322026-05-06 — best price $27.442026-05-16 — best price $24.992026-05-28 — best price $24.992026-06-11 — best price $26.922026-06-23 — best price $26.582026-07-03 — best price $26.712026-07-14 — best price $26.612026-07-27 — best price $3.742026-08-07 — best price $3.742026-08-15 — best price $3.752026-08-26 — best price $3.752026-08-30 — best price $3.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

187602026-05-27 — 101 pageviews2026-05-30 — 95 pageviews2026-06-02 — 70 pageviews2026-06-05 — 110 pageviews2026-06-08 — 112 pageviews2026-06-11 — 62 pageviews2026-06-14 — 107 pageviews2026-06-17 — 60 pageviews2026-06-20 — 80 pageviews2026-06-23 — 67 pageviews2026-06-26 — 62 pageviews2026-06-29 — 132 pageviews2026-07-02 — 170 pageviews2026-07-05 — 187 pageviews2026-07-08 — 115 pageviews2026-07-11 — 108 pageviews2026-07-14 — 114 pageviews2026-07-17 — 68 pageviews2026-07-20 — 73 pageviews2026-07-23 — 88 pageviews2026-07-26 — 66 pageviews2026-07-29 — 92 pageviews2026-08-01 — 104 pageviews2026-08-04 — 116 pageviews2026-08-07 — 92 pageviews2026-08-10 — 117 pageviews2026-08-13 — 117 pageviews2026-08-16 — 98 pageviews2026-08-19 — 117 pageviews2026-08-22 — 132 pageviews2026-08-24 — 110 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
85%
earned "Dark City"
38%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,97213%26
PS5 (PlayStation)4,71941%27
Xbox Series (Xbox)2,03013%26

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

3DNoirThrillerCyberpunkDetectiveNarrationDystopian Story RichConversationFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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