Have a Nice Death — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Have a Nice Death is 60% off now! | 2025-11-25 | 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/JoinDeathIn |
| Have a Nice Death is on Sale Now | 2024-11-27 | 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 |
| We are now Arc Games | 2024-04-08 | 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 | 2024-03-20 | 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 | 2023-12-21 | 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 | 2023-12-01 | 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! | 2023-11-21 | 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 | 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 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 w |
| Hotfix - 2023/04/13 | 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 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 -> Increase |
| A Note From Simon #6 | 2023-04-11 | 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 |
| Have a Nice Death is available NOW! | 2023-03-22 | 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 |
| Launch Update Notes | 2023-03-21 | 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 |
| A Note From Simon #5 | 2023-03-20 | 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. |
| Gameplay Overview | 2023-03-17 | 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 | 2023-03-03 | 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. | 2023-02-15 | 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 dead |
| Have a Nice Death Launch Price | 2023-02-06 | 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. |
| Life in the Afterlife: Your First Day as CEO | 2023-02-01 | 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 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 |
| Early Access Hotfix - 2023/01/24 | 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 Breakdown XV, the player can go to the training room to regain the missing HP The time stops running during boss fights if the player takes the Boss elevator (reception area) When the player reaches the following sorrows: Mr. Gordon Grimes, Mr. Hector Krank, an |
| Early Access Hotfix - 2022/12/22 | 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 contracts Transformed Twinsie's description not displaying the modifications Issue with Death behavior when keeping pressed the Scythe button during a loading Issue with the camera in the Physical Illness Department Omega Pump Quinn's mines not exploding every time In |