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| Community | We are now Arc Games 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! Fol… | — | |
| Game update | Minor Hotfix - March 18, 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 res… | 13776105 | |
| Sale | Have a Nice Death is on sale NOW 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). | — | |
| Game update | Minor Hotfix Patch 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. | 12840895 | |
| Community | Steam Awards Game of the Year Nominations Now Live! 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! | — | |
| In-game event | Hotfix - 2023/05/15 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 yo… | 10995767 | |
| Game update | Hotfix - 2023/04/13 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… | 10830459 | |
| Community | A Note From Simon #6 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… | — | |
| Community | Have a Nice Death is available NOW! 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 underwo… | — | |
| Major update | Launch Update Notes 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… | 10383566 | |
| Community | A Note From Simon #5 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 th… | — | |
| Community | Gameplay Overview 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. | — | |
| Community | Life in the Afterlife: Tools of the Trade 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%. | — | |
| Community | Life in the Afterlife: Tour of Death, Inc. 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 Physi… | — | |
| Community | Have a Nice Death Launch Price 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 anoth… | — | |
| Community | Life in the Afterlife: Your First Day as CEO Prepare for your first day as CEO of Death Inc., where it's up to you to don your robe and pick up your scythe to show everyone who is boss. Have a Nice Death launches for Steam and Nintendo Switch on March 22, 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 afte… | — | |
| Game update | Early Access Hotfix - 2023/01/24 FIXED · When the player has upgraded the Billhooks to the second level, damage to the Scythe and the Cloak weapons will increase each time the player will leave the elevator · If the player starts a run, doesn’t dash, doesn’t talk to an NPC, and doesn’t let the Pyroghost hit him first, the player will become invincible · When the HP of the player is reduced by 30 from the modification of the Br… | 10206922 | |
| Game update | Early Access Hotfix - 2022/12/22 ADDED/UPDATED · Sounds on Crisis Flames VFX and Level Up Screen · Update Localization · Update floor colors FIXED · Issue where the player may have a broken death screen, due to the number of penalties (Thanks to **Big Jaekuk** for the clue) · Issue with some of Jocelyn's contracts not being counted when taking the new Boss elevator · Omega Pump Quinn not being counted for some of Jocelyn's con… | 10155084 | |
| Community | Steam Deck Issue & Workaround With the Executive Decisions Update, we encountered an issue on Steam Deck where Death stays in the Charged Attack stance preventing progress. The problem seems to come from the main attack key being held down with the keyboard/mouse controls, and only appears with the *7.0-6 version of Proton*. Here are two temporary workarounds that you can use while we work to resolve the issue: 1st option:… | — | |
| Major update | Executive Decisions Update - Notes Dear recruits, We are excited to announce the Executive Decisions update will be available 12/15 for Have a Nice Death in Steam Early Access. This new content drop marks the final major update for the Early Access version of the darkly charming roguelike before it launches on Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam and Steam Deck) on March 22, 2023. With tomorrow’s Executive Decisions update, Have a Nice… | — | |
| Major update | The Executive Decisions Update is LIVE! We are incredibly excited to announce the Executive Decisions update is available now for Have a Nice Death in Steam Early Access! This new content drop marks the final major update for the Early Access version of the darkly charming roguelike before it launches on Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam and Steam Deck) on March 22, 2023. With today’s Executive Decisions update, Have a Nice Death Early A… | — | |
| Community | A Note From Simon #4 Hello everyone, We hope you're all well. Winter is coming and it's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas! Let's dive right into what the team has been up to! Early November, part of our team (Meredith and myself) and the Gearbox Publishing team were at the PARIS GAMES WEEK to showcase Have a Nice Death to the public. We had a wonderful time, meeting people that were discovering the game but al… | — | |
| Community | Vote for Have a Nice Death in The Steam Awards! Vote to nominate Have a Nice Death for the Outstanding Visual Style Award in the 2022 Steam Awards! Vote here! Have a Nice Death is a passion project for us. The team was fascinated by Nicolas Leger's art (Creative Director/Animation Director on Have a Nice Death) and the universe he could offer. His art style was inspired by The Nightmare before Christmas and the overall imagery (color range,… | — | |
| Game update | Early Access Hotfix - 2022/11/14 New music for Halloween in the Break room · Art issues in the Hall of Eternity alternate level · Some voices were not present or not attached to the right character · No music when the player dies in the Natural Disaster department · Missing voice of Muriel in some dialogs · Bad positioning of some Halloween assets · Localization updated | — | |
| Community | Have a Nice Death launches March 22nd! Today, during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase, Gearbox Publishing and Magic Design Studios announced Have a Nice Death, the darkly charming 2D action roguelike, will leave Steam Early Access and officially launch digitally on Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam and Steam Deck) on March 22. Soon, millions of mortals from around the world will be able to take on the role of the Underworld boss himself,… | — | |
| Release | October Update - Notes Happy Halloween! Put away the pens, drop the late files... The moment is shivering, the evil is back in Death, Inc.! The company offers you a small aperitif dinner in the break room, to celebrate the festival of terror between employees. Darkness. Shadow. Darkness... will soon ring the hour of SACRIFICE. ADDITIONAL CONTENT A new event story: The Ritual · It’s Halloween! Pump Quinn seems very ex… | — | |
| Game update | Early Access Hotfix - 2022/10/18 Hello recruits, Thanks tremendously for your feedback and support regarding our Natural Disasters release! This patch makes several fixes based on initial reporting issues following this week. · Only the second chosen Malus is active on the Difficulty 10 · Player can choose a Malus outside of the array when choosing the second Malus on Difficulty 10 · NPC Muriel is not visible enough in the lob… | — |
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