21 Dec 2023Developer post

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 (

21 Nov 2023Developer post

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!

15 May 2023Developer post

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 u

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 selecting a contract with Jocelyn
Now weapons in training room could be sorted by rarity

BALANCING

Add a new modifier to the difficulty system to rebalance the change to Injuries done by enemies. At Crisis 4, enemy should now deal the same amount of injuries they did at launch
Now crisis give points when dying (Default = 15 points, Crisis X = 500) to encourage people playing in Crisis modes.

ENEMIES

Harakola

-> Changed the movement of the basic attack. Now, itl moves less during the first hit.

Will Hung

-> Add Feedback to strongest attack

Heisenberg

-> Changed Spinning Kick Movement Curve
-> Added visual feedback when launching attack

Waldo

-> Fix a collider during several attacks that hit further than intended

Catherine Imamura

-> Fix a collider during an attack that hit further than intended
-> Change color of attack feedback to make it more easily distinguishable

Final Boss

-> Cape and spell not removed against life phase 3 now
-> In phase 3, the boss starts with more HP 2000>2500
-> Starting Crisis XIII, the boss deletes Curses and weapons

WEAPONS

Parasol 1.0

-> Changed cancellation of ground combo attacks. Should be way more responsive

Void Rift

-> Changed the delay of the spell, making it hit earlier

CURSES

Added many new icon to curses Status on player
Added new curses to upgrade the effects:“Transfer”, “Counterparty”, Life Insurance”, “Inflation”.
Moved the curses “(Very) Irritable Boss Syndrome”, “(Really) Irritable Boss Syndrome”, “(Very, very) Irritable Boss Syndrome”, “Imposing Scythe”, “Noble Scythe” to Blue Tree
Moved the curses : “Polish”, “Sharpen”, “Hone” to green tree.
Buffed several Periodic Curses to make them trigger faster

BUG FIXED

Missing items in the Shop.
“Dig Your Own Grave” curse doesn’t work properly.
In the save selection menu, "Game Time" indicator does not increment.
With the red curse “No Brakes” activated: if the player gets hit while attacking with a weapon, the hit animation is played and the one for the attack is canceled BUT the player still finishes his movement.
In some Intriguing floors, teleportation doesn't work if damage taken during corner triggers.
If the player gets a second weapon with the same status than the one equipped, the second weapon will not trigger the status.
Every time the player starts the game, the loading time of reaching the first breakroom is much longer than normal.
An asset of a car in the Natural Disasters Department is clipping when the camera zooms in or zooms out. The issue is notable during the arenas.
The Control room transformation cannot be used.
The run timer does not take into account the last chunk where the player died (also happens if he wins the run).
A malus curse may appear bugged if the player has already too many of them.
The spell Wishtorm’sound doesn’t have good timing.
Rarely, a curse tree can be too long for the menu, because of the possibility to get multiple high rank curses.
The "bubble" dialogs allow the player to move around. If the player leaves the dialog area without completing it, the sound that is turned down at the beginning of the dialog is not turned up.
If the players use the fast-forward during the ending cinematic of Major Pliskhan, two issues appear:During the explosion screen, a white fadeout appears, then the same picture re-appears.The player can control Death during the cinematic.
No SFX when the player is healed in the Breakroom by the Easy mode modifier.
There is no SFX on the slam attack of Brad in difficulty mode Crisis XIII.
Death slips after a victory in an arena (overlapping animation problem).
In the Control room, when the player transforms the scythe “Sickles' ' to “War Sickles' ',it will use many Prismium if the player has more than one.
Some entries in the codex are missing when loading a save from an older version of the game.
The mini moskitos do not die when hitting the player if he gets damage at the same time, leading to the enemies staying stuck on the player.
The dive’s animation of crows is played too soon regarding the attack’s behavior.
When the player chooses a contract to Jocelyn then cancels it, the contracts are rerolled.
The timer doesn't stop when the player is choosing a level in the elevator.
Sickles damage buff on dash is only calculated once even on multiple stacks.
Some projectiles from Infuse status don’t appear.
Jabelin weapon breaks the player's controls when used to leave the training room.
Using the space bar doesn't fast forward the credits.
When the player is far enough from Camille Flage (Thanager) to let her walk for a long time, she may “slide” (the animation is frozen) to the player until being in attack’s range.
The Player is able to pass through some doors in the Natural Disasters Department.
Spells that track enemies sometimes lose their focus.
“Morthral Enemy”curse targeting issue during Mr. Gordon Grimes fight.
Enemy projectiles won't destroy and get stuck against colliders.
Can't rebind the left and down inputs in the options
Some quests that weren’t trigger are now accessible: The Rumor
First dialog of the quest about Pumpquinn’s school bag coming back after finishing the quest.
Some duo random dialogs have some missing speaker or wrong NPC spawned.
Some issues with the fridge UI in Breakroom
Health upgrades and weapons appear against Imamura if taking the boss elevator
Secret rooms map icons showing even when the room is not open
The same pickable lore item could be found in the same floor
Some images from the worker guide were too pixelized or blurred
Easier to reach the max number of the soul counter (acceleration of display speed)

KNOWN BUGS

Sometimes, the invocation of the Ulcermonner not appear. It leads to the arena staying locked, even the security does not trigger. The issue occurs more often when you hit the enemy with the kunai and the curse “Infuse: lightning strike” while he summons.

REMINDER

Some crashes may occur with Integrated graphics (GPU built into the processor), particularly Intel.

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13 Apr 2023Developer post

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 regul

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 Espresso Koffee instead of Short Koffee (WAY BETTER !)

Anima Fountain
-> Decreased price per increase from 20 to 15

Floor rewards
-> Changed possible reward in Anima Deposit (more animas !)
-> Changed possible reward in Curse-Reroll Department (player can now find Anti-Malus)
-> Changed possible reward in Intriguing Floor

Thanagers reward
-> Player can now will get either one golden anima or 2 blue anima

HP upgrade
-> Now, player heals by the same HP amount that it increases instead of staying on the same ratio
( 1 / 65 HP => 1 / 85 HP and now 1 / 65 HP => 21 /85 HP )

Shop
-> Added the Acetaminopain to possible item to buy

Added new feedback to enemy that can counter

ENEMIES

Hara-Kola
-> Reduce the projectile spawning on death by 1

Imposter
-> HP from 300 to 225

Smoker
-> HP from 225 to 172

Stormy
-> HP from 120 to 100

Rockster
-> HP from 175 to 120

Magmaboy–X8
-> HP from 1200 to 800

Flambush
-> HP from 600 to 300

Sparky
-> HP from 120 to 70

Drowned
-> HP from 250 to 145

Tempestilent
-> HP from 250 to 175

Tempus
-> HP from 1500 to 1000

Pendulus
-> HP from 450 to 250

Kookoo
-> HP from 150 to 125
-> Change the curve of the projectile

Destinatus
-> HP from 425 to 380
-> Change feedback when attacking

Dustin
-> HP from 275 to 210

THANAGERS

Omega Pump Quinn
-> Fix pumpkin bomb that could be attacked before being formed

Will Hung
-> Reduce damage of attacks
-> added some feedbacks that were missing

X4–H
-> Reduce damage of attacks

Richard John Barron
-> Added some feedbacks to attacks
-> reduce damage to 15

Camille Flage
-> Added some feedbacks to attacks

Horace Sinistrocirrus
-> HP from 7500 to 5500

The “Bridgets”
-> HP from 13500 to 9000

SORROWS

Brad
-> Reduce damage to deal either 10 or 15 damage

Barnaby Proudfoot
-> Reduce damage to deal either 10 or 15 damage

Mr. Hector Krank
-> Reduce damage of some attacks from 30 to 25

Ms. Catherine Imamura
-> HP from 11000 to 9000
-> Reduce damage ( on par with the Major)

Time
-> HP from 20000 to 15000
-> reduce damage to deal 30 in Phase 1
-> reduce damage to deal 35 in Phase 2

Life
-> HP from 20000 to 17500
-> reduce damage by 5

WEAPONS

Poisoned Gift
-> Buff default duration from 7 to 8 s

Rebalance the charge attacks
-> Increase the duration of the invincibility

Billhooks
-> Reduce the Upward attack timing

Shake Spear
-> Change rarity to uncommon
-> Buff modifier Ground damage from +15% to +25 % and +30% to +50%

Jabelin
-> Change modifier when upgrading it
-> Now raise damage of All common weapons

Daggust
-> Buff frenzy damage 5 to 30

Murray of Crows
-> reduce duration of the attack

Beasteel
-> reduce CD from 5 s to 3.5s
-> Buff damage from 75 to 100
-> added some air control to the jump

Boulderain
-> Change the contract to unlock it to make it a bit harder to unlock ( making Proudfoot appear a bit later)

Frostbreeze
-> Buff damage from 15 to 20

CURSES

Buff MANY CURSES

BUG FIXED

When the “Stuck” status is applied on a flying enemy, this one can deal damage to the player without attacking
The spell “Focus” frenzy's buff is disabled after taking a hit and creates more issues
Status stacks multiple time when hit many time at once
Miscellaneous options are not saved in the splashscreen, except the language

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11 Apr 2023Developer post

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 s

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 has been listening to the various feedbacks toward the game (both internal and from you), and I want to maybe explain them in detail here.

One of the big change that we are have made is change to the Natural Disaster Department. Previously it served as the final world but with the addition of the new Department we now have runs that might a bit too long, so we are moving the world to be an alternate world to the War Department. But don't worry, of course we have adapted the difficulty of the world to be the same of the War Department. So now, except with the first Department and the last one, you will always have a sideworld to choose.

Secondly, we have decided to give more buffs to the Easy Mode. A lot of our players are not that experienced with difficult games but we want them to at least have a chance to finish the game if they want to. This means some new modifiers to it like Decreased Boss HP, Decrease Enemy damages and so on. It isn't that big but it might make a difference.

Thirdly, there are several new improvement for comprehension / UX. We have added some indicators to Jocelyn contract for instance, so that the player can at least how far along they are until completion.

Finally, a lot of balancing as usual! The various weapon buff / Curse buff but some bigger changes such as decreasing enemy permanent damage to the player in order to make blue Anima a bit more useful. We also have fixed some bugs that made some items not drop during Arena or Floor rewards, so runs should appear a bit more varied / lenient.

And to conclude, thank you everyone. I don't have a lot of word left to express what everyone at Magic Design is feeling. We are glad you were there and we hope you enjoy our game.

Simon
Lead Game Designer

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21 Mar 2023Developer post

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 Earl

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. This new department is packed with deadly goodies, including new bosses, mini-bosses and enemies, the ending of the game’s main storyline, “quality-of-death" gameplay improvements and much more. At Death Inc., rumor has it that there are several secrets to uncover in this department as well...

Below is a detailed list of game features for the 1.0 launch version of Have a Nice Death, available March 22nd at 9:00am PT:

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

New World: Inevitable Time Department (after Natural Disasters Department)

5 new enemies: Destinatus, Pendulus, Tempus, Dustin, Kookoo.
1 Miniboss: The Bridgets
1 Boss: Time

Boss secret & endings

When a player defeats the Inevitable Time Department boss, 3 lockers appear in the next run: One in the shop, one in the breakroom, and one before entering a mini boss room.
Opening these lockers will give an artefact.
The player has to collect the 3 artefacts and kill Time to reach the new secret boss.

New intriguing floor to several worlds

New weapons

3 new spells: Nihillaser, AnvilLauch, Void rift
3 new cloaks: Vampire battery, Beaststell, Excavore

More than 30 new curses

Some new curses make your INFUSE evolves, for instance: Burn will now trigger an explosion at the end of the duration

New option in the menu: Hide damage number

New UI feature: Contracts’ progression.

After selecting a contract with Joe, the player can see the progress of this ongoing contract during the run: a message insight will pop up while entering the breakroom or Death office (lobby).

New Gameplay Elements (GPEs) & Pickups

Temporal platforms in World 8 (Inevitable Time Department)
Spectral Coverage: Negate the next attack the player receives.
Remove Ibuprofane pick-up: We felt the intent of the pickup wasnt interesting enough and preferred to remove it
Quantum Soulary: Gives the player Soulary if he manages to reach the elevator without getting hit
New food items: Artichoke - Raspberry Jello - Collecting soulary have a chance to heal the player
Added mysterious lockers to open

More than 600 new lines of dialogs

New storyline quests: The strike, Air conditioning conflict, It’s pretzel day and more.

New worker guide entries

Finally: Achievements

BALANCING

Re-balancing the overall economy, Weapons, Curses

Forge

Change price of forge upgrade
50 / 100 / 150 to 50 -> 125 -> 250
We felt like it was way too quick to completely upgrade a weapon

Shop

Increase price of Legendary Weapon from 30 soulary to 50 soulary
Increase price of Curse in shop from 50 to 75 soulary

Enemies

Change the health value & attack damage of several enemies:
Natural Disasters department:
Rockster: 230 -> 175 HP / Damage from 20 -> 15
Magmaboy–X8: 1500 -> 1200 HP
Flambush: 800 -> 600 HP / Damage from 30 -> 20
Sparky: 150 -> 120 HP / Damage from 25 -> 20
Drowned: 275 -> 250 HP
Tempestilent: 325 -> 250 HP

Bosses

Mr Hector Krank: 4000 -> 5000 HP
Maxx: 3900 -> 4500 HP
Waldo: 3000 -> 3400 HP / Damage raised (deal either 15 or 20 damage depending attacks)
Ms Catherine Imamura: 12500 -> 11000 HP (rebalance damage, some attacks deal more, some less)

Miniboss

Camille Flage: 4700 -> 6100 HP

Base Scythe

Buff Charge attacks - Damage from 35 -> 45 & 50 -> 85
Buff charge dash - Damage from 15 -> 35 & 35 -> 70
Forge Lvl1 Damage from +2 to +5
Forge Lvl2 damage from +5 to +8
Forge Lvl3 damage from +10 to +15

Diss Scythe

Forge Lvl3 damage from +8 to +10
Cotation damage per cent reduced

Parasol 1.0

Finisher damage from 15 -> 30
Forge Lvl1 defense from +3 to +2
Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to 15 / Defense from +3 to +5
Forge Lvl3 damage from +25 to +20 / Defense from +5 to +8

Sickles

Tweak the movement during 4 & 5th attack
Forge Dash cooldown from 0.1 to 0.15
Forge Lvl3 damage from +8 to +10

Twinsie

Added one hit during 3 attack
Forge Lvl1 damage from +5 to +10
Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to +15
Forge Lvl3 damage from +20 to +25

Selenite

Forge Legendary damage from +75% to +50%
Forge Lvl1 damage from +5 to +10
Forge Lvl2 damage from +8 to +15

Behammorth

Forge Lvl1 damage from +50 to +75
Forge Lvl2 damage from +100 to +125
Forge Lvl3 damage to +150 to +200

Brutumhammer

Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to +20

Arashi-kunai

Increase base damage by 1

Slaymore

Increase base damage to 85

Death Star

Increase base damage to 65
Increase Frenzy damage to base 50
Forge Scythe damage from +8 to + 15 & +10 to +20

Shake Spear

Shorten the windup of the frenzy by 0.6s

Jabelin

Shorten the windup of the frenzy by 0.6s
Forge damage from +15 to 25 & +35 to +55

Murray of Crows

Increase base damage to 30

Whirl Dagger

Increase base damage to 30
Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to +20

Raparrier

Increase base damage to 35
Forge Lvl1 damage from +5 to +10
Forge Lvl2 damage from +15 to +20
Forge Lvl3 damage from +25 to +30

Fire Arrow

Forge damage from +10 to +15

Dark Talons

Forge Lvl1 damage from +5 to +10
Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to +25

Explosion

Bonus damage on upgrade now in % ( scale better on frenzy)
Forge mana cost from -15 to -10 & -30 to -25

Poisoned Gift

Reduce number of projectile during the frenzy
Forge bonus now apply to frenzy
Forge Lvl3 damage from +8 to +10
Forge Poison bonus stack from +2 to +3

Shockwave

Forge mana cost from -15 to -25

Spitfire

Forge Lvl1 damage from +5 to +10
Forge Lvl2 damage from +7 to +20
Forge Lvl2 damage from +8 to +35
Forge Burn bonus duration from +2 to 3 & +3 to +5

Poison Mist

Forge Manacost from -5 to -15

Boulderain

Forge Lvl1 damage from +5 to +10
Forge Lvl1 damage from +10 to +20
Forge Lvl1 damage from +15 to +35

Bees

Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to +7
Forge Lvl3 damage from +15 to +10

Spiteful Chomper

Modify the movement of the projectile
Increase base damage to 10
Forge Damage from +7 to +10 and +15 to +20

Voracious Burst

Increase base damage to 45
Forge damage from +5 to +25 and +15 to +50
Forge bonus lifesteal reduced ( to accompany the upgrade in damage)

Ganglion–X4

Increase base damage to 25

Frostoxic

Add bonus damage when upgrading the weapon (+5 & +10)

Frostbreeze

Increase base damage to 15

Sepulchral Ray

Increase base damage to 20

Troublecross

Forge Lvl3 damage from +20 to +15

Lyberis Skulls

Increase base damage to 30
Forge Lvl2 damage from +10 to +15
Forge Lvl3 damage from +25 to +30

Tornadmin

Decrease damage to 15
Rework movement of the spell, now capture enemy

Many curses have been tweaked: We have buff base stats curses offering HP or Mana for instance. Many infuse builds have also been buffed such as BURN damage curses taking a big UP.

KNOWN BUGS

We are aware that crashes occurred on specific integrated graphics cards and our devs are working to find a proper fix. The problem seems to be an issue with Intel's GPU drivers and DirectX11. Please, before playing, check if your drivers are up to date. And if you still have the issue, we added compatibility with DirectX12 which seems to fix the problem on some GPUs. This option can be activated by adding the following command in the "Game Launch Options" of the game on Steam: -force-d3d12
Under certain conditions, some enemies can spawn in double in the arenas.
The timer of the pickable items with status doesn’t stop during loading between floors.
Some animation issues may occur on Sorrows if the player has the curse “Short Fuse“.
In the elevator of the lobby (Jocelyn), if the player chooses a contract and cancels it, the visual icons of the contracts are duplicated in the menu.
The VFX of GPE lockers in Break room are activated even if the player has no anima.
SFX or animation issues can occur during cutscenes when speeded up.
Narrative items from storyline quests are not visible when spawned.
If the player gets a food item from the break room, then runs through a department and gets the same food a second time before the end of the 1st one, the timer of the status is not reset.

FIXED ISSUES

Floplexil codex entry shows only after killing a flying Pill
When the player triggers the temporary effect of a weapon, the timer never reappears after the first time it disappeared.
NPC Hariet is in the foreground in relation to Spookman enemy during the combat tutorial.
Player’s dash is reduced when the player is against a wall and the avatar flips and the player is pressing the dash button rapidly.
NPC Pump Quinn may be spawned in the air in the Physical Diseases Department.
The UI of the upgraded Selenite displays the raw damages added to the bonus damages.
Leaving the Upgrade Tree GPE's Menu causes the Esc/B button to play a sound on each press.
Bubble dialog does not spawn after getting a curse with NPC Mr O’Shah.
Thanager X4-H’s “bounce attack” locked against the wall.
Upgrading the Shop plays "failure" animation and SFX if the player has one Prismium.
Focus spell’s basic effect doesn’t work.
Description of the Lvl3 upgrade of the Mordicine does not match with the in-game effect .
Description of Mordicine spell does not match with the real effects
The 'Tineidagogue' curse launches crows instead of Butterflies. Now the curse is named “Covus Nefas”
The Infuse status does not work on some weapons which have Infuse statuts in their kit.
FPS Performance decrease occurs when a few factors are mixed together: spells with several VFX, numbers of enemies etc.
Jerry’s idle animation is missing on frame and is invisible.
Some visual and text elements are missing in the worker guide menu.
An entry in the Codex is written in Spanish in the Portuguese version of the game
The dialogue window during the conversation with Waldo shows the wrong name speaker (“Major Warren Pliskan”) in the last quote.
Dialogues are missing during the fight with B. Proudfoot) starting with the third attempt and onwards.
The curses “Power Nap” and “What Do You Mean,Running Late?” don’t work.
Breakdown XIII is written as Breakdown XII in the Run History.
Food items (Sticky Pineapple, Death Burger,Club Sandwichazord) are missing the bubble art in the Lobby Gallery.
Josianne’s gift does not directly offer certain weapons after purchasing them.
The player could lose the multiple stacks earned in a floor if he goes to another floor.
The Imposter enemy stays in the air for a short period of time before falling down.
Upgraded Cloaks show base statistics after being dropped, instead of the upgraded ones.
Multiple entries in the worker guide seem to be impossible to unlock.
The Dirty Dagger’s frenzy attack cooldown does not reset properly if a second frenzy attack is launched.
Inconsistent dot placements in the descriptions of Curses in the Curse Manager menu.
When the Waldo Box enemy grabs the player, the distance of the player movement will be the same.
Dengue King Dengue's fast attack does not follow the direction of the FX.
Buying 5 item slots upgrade to Joe without unlocking the previous only gives +1 slot.
Fire Arrow and Revelation Bow are blocked by skeleton hands obstacles, even if they have been eliminated.
Some texts are untranslated.
Some enemies inflict a knockback effect in the opposite direction of the attack.
“Profit Sharing” Curse has no effect on the Arena Reward.
Frenzy attack has no effect when the player Swaps weapons.
Curse reroll does not retain after re-open the menu of Mr O’Shah.
The longer worker guide entries cannot be rewound by any input from the keyboard and mouse.
Dirty Dagger didn't work properly.
Some curses are incorrectly placed in the encyclopedia according to the rank order.
A visible gap may be found in the floor in the Lobby.
Some weapons who apply status lose it when they are upgraded.
"Self-Fulfillment" promotion system level does not have a little arrow in the UI.
Harriet may not appear next to the Scythe Selection gpe.
Multiple issues with art and UI present in the Credits.
Death's HP stays the same after defeating a Boss on easy mode.
Curse "Anima Lambic" has a confusing description.
The UI lines for level 7 and level 10 of the permanent upgrade are written twice.
The Bridgets weaver didn't have the lowlife feedback.
White square offset in boss health bar.
The curse “Daredevil” is refreshed whenever the player enters a new floor. This allows the player to trigger the curse multiple times per run.
Breakdown 15 modifier suggests that the HP will be set to a negative value.
Short Koffee item description is inconsistent with other injury heals.
ManaPower item description is incomplete and might confuse new players.
Hypothermia has an incorrect description.
The timer of a food item is not reset when the second time this same item has been picked up.
In the Industrial Pollution Department starting rooms, a “line” that “split” the art is visible.
The pure healing provides but the easy Mode only works in the Hall of Eternity world.
When the curse “Short Fuse” is applied with the Infuse, the animation of the Sorrow has some issues.
If players buy a curse with a danger in the shop just before a boss fight, they can get a danger related to the current world. The danger becomes ineffective.
Player game over screen animation does not play properly.
When skipping the miniboss and boss cutscenes, some sound issues appeared.

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

As you can add your feedback/bugs on the Steam forum of the game, you can also join The official Have a Nice Death Discord. You will meet a bunch of nice people who can help you with the game and who are more than ready to discuss ideas and critiques about Have a Nice Death with you.

We were amazed by the quantity AND the quality of your chef-d’oeuvre during all Early Access and this the last major update. In total, we count about +500 fanart from our community (Discord, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit etc.). That’s insane! Of course, we can’t share all of them, but here’s a glimpse of talent:

https://twitter.com/oraii_/status/1603341597948538880

https://twitter.com/slapjak1/status/1630288209312612352

https://twitter.com/peanutbou/status/1603787421425999875

https://twitter.com/gelatin_draw/status/1606666030977515521

https://twitter.com/gelatin_draw/status/1607405657246027776

https://twitter.com/ThePvZArtist/status/1636195580472086536

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrTvNYeaEAAowsC?format=jpg&name=large

https://twitter.com/yaoyouguoji11/status/1607043415845502982

https://twitter.com/dom_do0m/status/1604842425700098049

https://twitter.com/SmilyCupcake_/status/1610740521559011328

https://twitter.com/mchwnzichun1/status/1616827877181517824

https://twitter.com/Lars_lattery/status/1610930657617915905

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20 Mar 2023Developer post

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 f

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 behavior to make them more reactive, reworked some pickups... quite a lot of things than can go unnoticed but should amount to a better final experience.
Then, the best part of the patch will be geared toward the END. Yes, finally you will be able to discover who is behind all of the trouble at DEATH INC and doesn't want Death to go on vacations?

Maybe you have already figured it out, as there have some clues in the game. The discord was very active and shared some ideas. But, do you think you're right?
In any case, you will discover a brand new world: New Sorrow, new Thanagers, new enemies and surprises. We are also adding as expected new cloak weapons, new spells and much more! Another thing we have been working on (you can stop asking for them now) are Achievements!

There are many more stuff being worked on, but we will let you discover them by yourself :)

To finish, and not wanting to sound like a broken record, Thank you for your support during this Early Access. The team is really thankful to the players and we are glad we could make this game together.

See you on March 22!

Simon

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03 Mar 2023Developer post

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. Guara

15 Feb 2023Developer post

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. ha

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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 Chief of Security, gets back to work!

Department 2: Industrial Pollution

Sorrow: Mr. Gordon Grimes
Since the Industrial Revolution, this department has really blossomed and shows no sign of stopping. Head of Industrial Pollution, Mr. Gordon Grimes, dove headlong into his work… and into a vat of the most toxic substances possible.

Department 3: Physical Illness

Sorrow: Mr. Hector Krank
The department that some try to avoid with extremely annoying exercise, the Physical Illness Department has seen spikes in recent years, no doubt in part to Mr. Hector Krank’s over-the-top efforts.

Department 4: Addictions

Sorrow: Maxxx
A secretive but all the same devastating department, Addictions is run by Maxxx, the enigmatic and unsettling Sorrow.

Department 5: Modern Warfare

Sorrow: Major Warren Pliskhan
A department of less conversation and all action, Modern Warfare has been a catastrophically constant performer at Death Inc., but Sorrow Major Warren Pliskhan has his sights on even more bloodshed.

Department 6: Toxic Food-Processing Department

Sorrow: Waldo
A relatively new department in Death Inc., that’s shot up the ranks. Waldo wears a smile, but he is all work and no play… because his play is his work.

Department 7: Natural Disasters

Sorrow: Ms. Catherine Imamura
A department that has existed since time immemorial and shows no sign of downsizing, Natural Disasters is run by the powerful and confident Catherine Imamura.

Department 8: Time

Sorrow: CLASSIFIED/REDACTED.
Time and time again, he's made the department quite complicated to understand, hiding his incompetence as a majority shareholder...
Inevitable Time Department is a Category Alpha quantum aberration built around a time paradox. It is a maze-like vessel filled with sand, dust and tic-toc sounds, that is difficult to represent and always busy due to the nature of the universe. Its existence is millennia-old and its work creates complications. There's a mysterious Sorrow who runs the department.

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06 Feb 2023Developer post

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,

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 loved in the Early Access version of the game. Additionally, it will introduce a haul of new features, including one new world filled with new bosses, mini-bosses and enemies, along with new story content that will bring the epic conclusion of the main storyline. Players may also find new clues about the culprit behind all of Death's woes. Mortals who have played the Early Access version will be able use their save file(s) for the 1.0 release of the game.

Below is the detailed list of features for the launch version of Have a Nice Death releasing on March 22:

Welcome to Death Incorporated – Discover and explore the seven 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 are always willing to share the latest office gossip.
Reap What You Sow –Sharpen your skills (and scythe) through fast-paced hack n’ slash combat, utilizing over 70 unique weapons and spells you can find and upgrade to create devastating combinations.
Death Never Sleeps –Since Death can’t die, use what you’ve learned and earned to overcome the numerous minions and bosses in each department of Death Incorporated... over and over. A performance review after every run guarantees that you’ll unlock interesting items and upgrades that will help you progress on your journey.
When Life Gives You Curses – Taking more power for yourself is a controversial move in Death Incorporated’s company culture. For instance, adopting a Curse upgrade for yourself might result in the Labor Inspector granting your subordinates enhanced powers, or worse, raising the cost of koffee and other items that are vital to your work output.
Prove You’re the Best Underworld Boss – After completing your first adventure across Death, Inc. there's still work that needs to be done to prove you’re the best boss there is. From completing special challenges and trying out recently-unlocked difficulty modes that feature unique modifiers to earning rewards to complete your Pitbook by getting all the weapons, spells, curses and upgrades – your “to-do” list is far from completed.
You Call the Shots – Make your playthrough the most optimal experience that’s right for you, boss. With various accessibility options at your disposal, including adjusting sound and language settings, and full controller remapping functionality support -- you’re free to fully customize your experience before hacking’n’scything away.

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Updates & announcements

QUALITY of DEATH IMPROVEMENTS

BALANCING

ENEMIES

WEAPONS

CURSES

BUG FIXED

KNOWN BUGS

REMINDER

BALANCING

OVERALL

ENEMIES

THANAGERS

SORROWS

WEAPONS

CURSES

BUG FIXED

WELCOME TO THE AFTERLIFE!

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

BALANCING

KNOWN BUGS

FIXED ISSUES

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

Department 1: Hall of Eternity

Department 2: Industrial Pollution

Department 3: Physical Illness

Department 4: Addictions

Department 5: Modern Warfare

Department 6: Toxic Food-Processing Department

Department 7: Natural Disasters

Department 8: Time