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Noobs Want to Live

元气弹工作室(GD Studio) · Lightning Games · 2023-02-13

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!

8
playing now
89%
positive of 5.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 53 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,246 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 100k–224k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,983 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Fanatical (2025-12-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 39 of 64 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.1k2.1k20232026Week of 2023-02-01: 2,069 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 177 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 763 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3102026-08-07 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 13 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 22 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 8 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 17 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 29 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 19 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 18 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 13 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 24 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$2.492023-02-142026-08-262023-02-14 — best price $4.242023-03-16 — best price $4.192023-06-28 — best price $3.842023-09-25 — best price $3.842023-12-21 — best price $3.742024-02-27 — best price $4.692024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-08-05 — best price $4.992024-11-12 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-03 — best price $3.662025-03-03 — best price $3.492025-04-14 — best price $3.492025-05-27 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-07-27 — best price $3.892025-08-22 — best price $3.892025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-11-04 — best price $3.992025-11-27 — best price $3.982025-12-12 — best price $3.242026-01-10 — best price $4.992026-02-04 — best price $4.992026-02-25 — best price $4.992026-03-18 — best price $3.242026-04-01 — best price $3.892026-04-19 — best price $4.992026-04-25 — best price $4.992026-05-19 — best price $3.982026-06-08 — best price $3.242026-06-25 — best price $3.242026-07-15 — best price $3.892026-08-26 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.8%
earned "Silverring Exterminator 1"
73.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Player tags

2.5DActionCasualCombatRelaxingTop-DownAdventureAction RPGRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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