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We Who Are About To Die cover art

We Who Are About To Die

Jordy Lakiere · 2022-11-14

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

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!

We Who Are About To Die is an Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $21.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Very Positive (88% of 8354 reviews).

18
playing now
88%
positive of 8.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$21.99
steam price (US)

18 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

We Who Are About To Die trailer thumbnail

We Who Are About To Die - Official Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 18 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 5% of 27,786 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 167k–376k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,354 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 6 of 12 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

52102026-09-15 13:00 — 24 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 28 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 20 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 37 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 51 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 25 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 16 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 31 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 35 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 21 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 35 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 36 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 14 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 36 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 31 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 21 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 40 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 42 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 25 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 39 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 43 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 27 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 18 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
88636Nov 2022Aug 2026Nov 2022 — avg 886 · peak 1,683Jan 2023 — avg 251 · peak 697Mar 2023 — avg 140 · peak 301May 2023 — avg 73 · peak 154Jul 2023 — avg 112 · peak 227Sep 2023 — avg 155 · peak 489Nov 2023 — avg 194 · peak 577Jan 2024 — avg 105 · peak 331Mar 2024 — avg 63 · peak 172May 2024 — avg 81 · peak 268Jul 2024 — avg 236 · peak 485Sep 2024 — avg 157 · peak 385Nov 2024 — avg 239 · peak 1,619Jan 2025 — avg 127 · peak 251Mar 2025 — avg 73 · peak 190May 2025 — avg 55 · peak 106Jul 2025 — avg 179 · peak 357Sep 2025 — avg 82 · peak 156Nov 2025 — avg 74 · peak 158Jan 2026 — avg 104 · peak 273Mar 2026 — avg 52 · peak 98May 2026 — avg 65 · peak 152Jul 2026 — avg 39 · peak 81Aug 2026 — avg 45 · peak 109
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

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…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-11-14 (Steam store data)

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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