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Action-focused gameplay anchors Have a Nice Death, a 2023 release from Magic Design Studios. It has 10,627 Steam reviews with 86% positive sentiment, rated Very Positive, and is published by Arc Games at an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Have a Nice Death is a 2023 Action game developed by Magic Design Studios and published by Arc Games. On Steam it has gathered 10,631 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Magic Design Studios with publisher Arc Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 415,000 to 967,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Have a Nice Death can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,631
Positive
86%
Steam appid
1740720
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0415K to 967K
units (median: 691K)
≈ $5.9M to $13.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Have a Nice Death at roughly 415,000 to 967,000 copies, with a median around 691,000, derived from its 10,631 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $14.14Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.14 to $24.99, averaging $23.52 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.14 on 2026-06-01.
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Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Have a Nice Death sold?
- indielist estimates Have a Nice Death has sold between 414,609 and 967,421 units (median 691,015), derived from its 10,631 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Have a Nice Death?
- Have a Nice Death was developed by Magic Design Studios and published by Arc Games.
- When was Have a Nice Death released?
- Have a Nice Death was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Have a Nice Death have on Steam?
- Have a Nice Death has 10,631 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Have a Nice Death within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Magic Design Studios's other releases and Arc Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Have a Nice Death sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Have a Nice Death page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.