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We Who Are About To Die

Jordy Lakiere · 2022-11-14

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 14, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!

61
playing now
88%
positive of 8.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$21.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Cooling
  • · 61 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 376 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~47/week).
  • · Review velocity down 48% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,497 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 166k–374k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,317 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.19 at Steam (2024-06-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $21.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.3k1.3k20222026Week of 2022-11-01: 1,331 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 831 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 389 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

98162026-08-07 00:00 — 43 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 30 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 37 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 38 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 28 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 38 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 45 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 33 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 57 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 52 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 27 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 33 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 50 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 21 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 37 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 29 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 40 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 56 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 40 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 30 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 42 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 51 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 49 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 50 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 43 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 67 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 75 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 61 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$21.99$13.192022-11-142026-07-092022-11-14 — best price $19.792022-12-22 — best price $17.592023-02-02 — best price $16.492023-03-16 — best price $17.592023-06-29 — best price $16.492023-08-03 — best price $16.492023-09-13 — best price $15.392023-11-14 — best price $16.492023-11-22 — best price $16.492023-12-21 — best price $14.292024-03-14 — best price $15.392024-05-13 — best price $16.492024-06-19 — best price $13.192024-06-27 — best price $15.392024-09-16 — best price $15.392024-11-23 — best price $13.192024-12-19 — best price $15.392025-03-13 — best price $15.392025-04-21 — best price $17.592025-06-18 — best price $13.192025-06-27 — best price $13.192025-09-15 — best price $16.492025-10-06 — best price $21.992025-11-28 — best price $21.992026-01-05 — best price $21.992026-01-26 — best price $21.992026-03-26 — best price $21.992026-05-20 — best price $21.992026-07-09 — best price $21.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

702026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)0—3

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

RPGGoreRomeIndiePhysicsDifficultSwordplayAction RPGManagementRogue-lite

Census log

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

Recent updates

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