- Get Have a Nice Death at 65% off now! - 25 June 2026
The darkly charming roguelike hit of 2023, Have a Nice Death, is on sale now as part of the Steam Summer Sale! Head over to Steam to get the hack’n’scythe adventure at 65% off. Don’t miss your chance to get this indie gem at 65% off before the sale ends July 7! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1740720/Have_a_Nice_Death/ Want to play the Steam version of Have a Nice Death on the go? Thanks to the power of GeForce NOW, you can stream Have a Nice Death, on any device and anywhere you want. Are you ready to fight to show Death Inc. who's boss anytime, anywhere? Check out more details on GeForce NOW here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/ Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@JoinDeathInc Follow: https://x.com/JoinDeathInc Like: https://www.facebook.com/JoinDeathInc Discuss: https://discord.gg/tv8gfSScSn
- Have a Nice Death is 60% off now! - 25 November 2025
The darkly charming roguelike hit of 2023, Have a Nice Death, is on sale now for 60% off! Don’t miss your chance to get this indie gem on sale at a massive discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1740720/Have_a_Nice_Death/ Want to play the Steam version of Have a Nice Death on the go with any device? Thanks to the power of GeForce NOW, you can stream Have a Nice Death, on any device and anywhere you want. Are you ready to fight to show Death Inc. who's boss anytime, anywhere? Check out more details on GeForce NOW here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/ Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@JoinDeathInc Follow: https://x.com/JoinDeathInc Like: https://www.facebook.com/JoinDeathInc Discuss: https://discord.gg/tv8gfSScSn
- Have a Nice Death is on Sale Now - 27 November 2024
The darkly charming roguelike hit of 2023, Have a Nice Death, is on sale now as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! Head over to Steam to get the hack’n’scythe adventure for 50% off. Don’t miss your chance to get this indie gem on sale before the holidays begin, as the sale ends December 4! Head to the game’s steam page to grab it for half off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1740720/Have_a_Nice_Death/ Want to play the Steam version of Have a Nice Death on the go with any device? Thanks to the power of GeForce NOW, you can stream Have a Nice Death, on any device and anywhere you want. Are you ready to fight to show Death Inc. who's boss anytime, anywhere? Check out more details on GeForce NOW here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/ Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@JoinDeathInc Follow: https://x.com/JoinDeathInc Like: https://www.facebook.com/JoinDeathInc Discuss: https://discord.gg…
- Little Kitty, Big City swats its way to Game Pass alongside Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and more new and returning titles - 30 April 2024
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- We are now Arc Games - 8 April 2024
We're very excited to announce that we are now Arc Games! We're the same team of passionate gamers that brought you many beloved franchises including the Remnant series, Have a Nice Death, Star Trek Online and Neverwinter. And we can’t wait to bring you even more exciting titles like Gigantic: Rampage Edition, Hyper Light Breaker, and more soon-to-be announced games for 2025 and beyond! Follow us @ArcGames and check out the #iiishowcase April 10th, 10am PDT for a new Hyper Light Breaker trailer! Follow us on Social Media: Facebook.com/ArcGames Youtube.com/@ArcGames
- Minor Hotfix - March 18, 2024 - 20 March 2024
CHANGES - The condition to unlock the achievement “Oh Shoo, O’Shah” has been modified: instead of getting all the curses AND penalties, you just need to get all the curses. BUG FIXED - We've also fixed a problem that could block certain penalties of a world if the player didn't go to the restroom after this world. The problem persisted even on subsequent runs if the player did not reach the restroom in question.
- Have a Nice Death is on sale NOW - 21 December 2023
The darkly charming roguelike hit of 2023, Have a Nice Death, is on sale now as part of the Steam Winter Sale! Get the hack’n’scythe adventure for 33% off. Don’t miss your chance to get this indie gem on sale this holiday season, as the sale ends Thursday, January 4 at 10am PST (6pm UTC).
- Minor Hotfix Patch - 1 December 2023
Hello New Recruits! We just released a minor hotfix addressing a bug you all had reported plus fxing some small issues with dialogues. Thank you for your continued support! BUG FIXES The curse “Fake It ‘Til Ya Make It” will now appear normally. General dialogue fixes.
- Steam Awards Game of the Year Nominations Now Live! - 21 November 2023
Thanks to all the support from the dedicated new trainees of Death Inc. This year's Steam Awards voting is live! Show Death he deserves a holiday!
- Hotfix - 2023/05/15 - 15 May 2023
QUALITY of DEATH IMPROVEMENTS New entries in workerguide: => The effects (get a curse to unlock), => The Thing in the Fridge (use the fridge in breakroom to unlock) Changed some entries in workerguide Tutorial for better understanding. Most of the curses have a better and understandable description Added icons to keywords Added correct icons to effects Tooltip on curses: when you choose a curse, a tooltip will display the value of your current statistics and the one you will have by taking the curse Changed Patrice/PumpQuinn dialog about Prismium Changed Patrice/PumpQuinn dialog (shorter) about GPE difficulty in lobby Changed GPE difficulty workerguide unlocking condition: Talk to Patrice about that in lobby OR open the GPE menu Changed food item lore description in Italic The conditions to unlock worker guide entries (description 2 and 3) are now explained Added etter feedbacks when se…
- Hotfix - 2023/04/13 - 13 April 2023
BALANCING OVERALL Change Natural Disaster Department order to pair with the War Department -> Unlocked once the player will beat Major Pliskhan -> Rebalance the economy of the game since there is now one less full world Rebalanced Injury/Permanent damages ratio did by regular enemies. -> From 50 % to 20 % (10 damages = 5 injuries that could be healed => 8 injuries that can be healed) Rebalance enemies’ drops to make them more occurring when player will kill more enemies Easy mode -> Increased the Heal after boss to 75 % of max HP -> Added new modifier -25 % HP to Boss & Miniboss -> Rebalanced the damage of Enemy Permanent Upgrades -> Increased the chances to find upgraded weapon Espresso Koffee pure healing from 25 -> 30 Short Koffee injury healing from 10 -> 15 Distribig® 462 -> Change base Soulary reward from 15 to 15/25 -> Change big Soulary reward from 25/40 to 35/60 -> Swap Espress…
- A Note From Simon #6 - 11 April 2023
Hello Everyone, It was quite a long road! For those who haven't heard about it, we just released HAVE A NICE DEATH out of early access not too long ago. Everyone here at Magic Design Studios is very happy about finally being able to show you our game we have been working on for several years. Thank you to everyone who has been with us for a long time. Your support was a great motivation to our team and your feedbacks were an integral part of what the game is now. To those who are just arriving, welcome. We hope everyone is having a great time with our game. :) So now that the game is released, what is in the future for HAND? To start, we are gonna release a big patch with a lot of improvement and fixes in the coming weeks. This will be our first post-launch update! But we're also working on another one that will come later. Some could even be considered big changes but the whole team ha…
- Have a Nice Death is available NOW! - 22 March 2023
Have a Nice Death is a hand-drawn 2D Action Rogue-Lite where you play as Death, Founder and CEO of Death Incorporated—a sprawling corporate empire that processes souls for the afterlife—who currently finds himself teetering on the edge of burnout. His top executives, the Sorrows, have been running rampant on Earth’s surface, blatantly ignoring company protocols, leaving him buried in an underworld-sized mountain of paperwork. Now, in order to regain control of his company and soul-ply chain, as well as secure a much-needed vacation, he will need to traverse the various departments of Death Incorporated and remind his unruly subordinates who’s boss. Welcome to Death Incorporated – Discover and explore the darkly-charming, procedurally-generated departments of Death Inc., where you’ll meet a diverse cast of memorable characters—like your affable pumpkin-headed assistant, Pump Quinn—who ar…
- Launch Update Notes - 21 March 2023
All of us at Magic Design Studios and Gearbox Publishing are beyond ecstatic for all mortals to finally jump into the full game and join Death Inc.! Development on Have a Nice Death has been incredible - from our big announcement at the Game Awards to releasing the game into Early Access - the support we’ve received means so much to us. We’d like to especially thank our Early Access players who have given us such valuable feedback – which helped us not only make the hack’n’scythe adventure we wanted, but what roguelike fans wanted as well. Whether you’re new to Have a Nice Death or you’ve been playing it since it launched in Early Access, we hope you enjoy your time at Death Incorporated! WELCOME TO THE AFTERLIFE! Thanks to the Launch Update that brings new content available for the first time tomorrow, you’ll find the eighth department of Death Inc., the Inevitable Time Department. Thi…
- A Note From Simon #5 - 20 March 2023
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! (Never too late to say that.) A new chapter starts for everyone, including at Death, INC. Let's dive right back to work then. Last December, we have released our last content patch which had a lot of various changes that the community and our team asked for. So far so good. Thanks to everyone that has played it since. It was a pretty major patch. The next one will be the end of the early access for HAVE A NICE DEATH. Finally 1.0 version! it was a nice trip with all of you and we are proud of everything that has been accomplished. From new Thanagers, rework of some systems, to finally DESTROYING the infuse mana curses... lot of changes. We hope you all are very excited for March 22. Since it is the 1.0 version, we have taken some step back and looked to polish everything that felt a bit wobbly. This includes some balancing changes, from tiny changes like enemy be…
- Gameplay Overview - 17 March 2023
Learn the ins and outs of everything in the darkly charming 2D action rouge-like, Have a Nice Death, and how to be the afterlife’s best boss! Launching on March 22, 2023.
- Life in the Afterlife: Tools of the Trade - 3 March 2023
Running Death, Inc. is hard work and takes special tools! With more than 70 different weapons - a variety of Scythes, Cloaks, and Pitbook spells - there’s something for everyone. Here’s a little sign-on bonus for our new recruits - some build ideas to get the blood flowing. Guaranteed to increase productivity by 1000%.
- Life in the Afterlife: Tour of Death, Inc. - 15 February 2023
In this new trailer for Have a Nice Death, you can take a carefree tour of Death Inc., your new home away from home... forever! Death Inc. is the Underworld’s leading mega corporation in charge of processing souls into the afterlife. As a sprawling corporate empire, Death Inc. has many morbidly-themed departments -- like the Industrial Pollution Department, which oozes with charm, and the Physical Illness Department that’ll take your breath away. Each department is run by a powerful executive, known as a “Sorrow”, but unfortunately for you, they've been running rampant -- leaving you with more work to do, so you’ll have to overcome their deadly abilities and show them who’s boss. Let’s take visit each department, shall we? Department 1: Hall of Eternity Sorrow: Brad To put things right in the Hall of Eternity before you get started on the misbehaving departments, make sure Brad, the Chi…
- Have a Nice Death Launch Price - 6 February 2023
Have a Nice Death is nearing the official 1.0 launch date of March 22, 2023! Throughout the Steam Early Access period, the game has expanded with tons of new content. Four major updates, including our recent Executive Decisions update, added new worlds, bosses, difficulty levels, and a slew of quality-of-death features. Death may be little, but his game is BIG. The 1.0 update will include another full world, set of features, and conclude the narrative journey of Death. As we get ready to move out of Early Access to release a full game, we're now announcing that on February 13, 2023 at 9:00am PT, Have a Nice Death will be available for $24.99. Any purchase made before that time will still get the full game at the Early Access price. The full release of Have a Nice Death will include all of the delightfully morbid content, including content from previous major updates, that fans have love…
