Press X to Not Die

Released: Oct 6, 2017
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 06 Sep 2026, 14:41 GMT

Updates & announcements

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23 Aug 2025Developer post
Wishlist our new game STAR SQUADRON today!
We know, we know, it's not Press X to Not Die 2 . But the good news is we're aiming even higher. While it may not be obvious, Press X to Not Die draws large inspiration from the Wing Commander series. From the dynamic debriefing dialogue of the first two games to, of course, the
28 Feb 2022Developer post
2022 Patch 3
New feature: Press Backspace to skip the current clip. Fixes for bug in Patch #1: Two fonts not displaying Russian characters.
New feature: Press Backspace to skip the current clip.
Fixes for bug in Patch #1: Two fonts not displaying Russian characters.
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26 Feb 2022Developer post
2022 Patch 2: The Big One
It's the Big One! Game updates: PlayStation button prompts option. By popular demand! We went into George Lucas mode and made minor changes to 10 clips to smooth out some remaining editing issues. Global Stats detailed breakdowns: Ever wanted to know how many other people also tr
It's the Big One!
Game updates:

PlayStation button prompts option. By popular demand!
We went into George Lucas mode and made minor changes to 10 clips to smooth out some remaining editing issues.
Global Stats detailed breakdowns:
Ever wanted to know how many other people also tried to watch Christina shower today? Now you can find out!
See how much you’ve contributed to the Global Stats! Note that it has only been recording properly for the last two weeks.
Steam updates:

The Soundtrack DLC has been updated to Steam’s new Soundtrack format.
New images added to fully support Steam’s new Library view. Our Library page is all spiffy looking now!
UPDATE 2/28
Now Patch #3 is out!

New feature: Press Backspace to skip the current clip.
Fixes for bug in Patch #1: Two fonts not displaying Russian characters.
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10 Feb 2022Developer post
2022 Patch 1
A Press X to Not Die update in 2022? It’s true! We’re working on cough something new cough and taking the opportunity to port some of the new features we're developing back into Press X to Not Die . This patch is happening now cause we wanted to get recording Global Stats out ASA
A Press X to Not Die update in 2022? It’s true!
We’re working on cough something new cough and taking the opportunity to port some of the new features we're developing back into Press X to Not Die. This patch is happening now cause we wanted to get recording Global Stats out ASAP, with cooler stuff coming later on.
In this patch:

As part of modernizing our dev tools, we’ve migrated the game engine from an FNA/XNA hybrid to an FNA/MonoGame hybrid. This fundamentally changes how the game handles all text and art assets so please let us know if you notice anything amiss!
Global Stats: We never got these working consistently before but now they are. Ever wanted to know just how many times people have died or tried to watch Christina shower? Well, unfortunately, we were only able to record those numbers about 9% of the time before but we’ll be recording them 100% of the time from now on!
Mouse makes more sense now. Ever click on one menu item and then the game opened a different menu item instead? Yeah, the old mouse code was weird and just kind of simulated a gamepad controlling the menus. Now it actually functions like how you’d expect a mouse to work!
1994 Mode: Now pixelates absolutely everything, including pop-ups.
Other bug fixes.
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23 Nov 2017Developer post
Mac and Linux support for DLC!
We noticed today that our DLC were still listed as Windows-only when in fact they work perfectly fine on Mac and Linux! We've updated their store pages!
23 Nov 2017Developer post
Mac and Linux support for DLC!
We noticed today that our DLC were still listed as Windows-only when in fact they work perfectly fine on Mac and Linux! We've updated their store pages!
09 Oct 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Oddball interactive movie Press X to Not Die released
Along with CD-Rs discarded in gutters and mod readme files, homemade movies offer some of my favourite weird looks into strangers’ lives. So heck yeah I’m interested in Press X to Not Die , a scrappy action-comedy interactive movie set in a town gone wild where you’ll have to fig
06 Oct 2017Developer post
Launch Day!
Press X to Not Die 's Full Release is upon us! Buy it! Buy it now! Buy it for yourself! Buy it for your friends! Buy it for strangers! To reiterate, here's just some of the largest additions to the game since our early days of Early Access: (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene
Press X to Not Die's Full Release is upon us! Buy it! Buy it now! Buy it for yourself! Buy it for your friends! Buy it for strangers!
To reiterate, here's just some of the largest additions to the game since our early days of Early Access:
(Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!) and the brand new Blooper Reel.
Localization into 7 languages!
Mac and Linux support!
With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/402330/Press_X_to_Not_Die/
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06 Oct 2017Developer post
Launch Day!
Press X to Not Die 's Full Release is upon us! Buy it! Buy it now! Buy it for yourself! Buy it for your friends! Buy it for strangers! To reiterate, here's just some of the largest additions to the game since our early days of Early Access: (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene
Press X to Not Die's Full Release is upon us! Buy it! Buy it now! Buy it for yourself! Buy it for your friends! Buy it for strangers!
To reiterate, here's just some of the largest additions to the game since our early days of Early Access:
(Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!) and the brand new Blooper Reel.
Localization into 7 languages!
Mac and Linux support!
With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/402330/Press_X_to_Not_Die/
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05 Oct 2017Developer post
Enter Juggalo, Exit Early Access
Our final and largest Early Access content update is upon us! What do you get? (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new cont
Our final and largest Early Access content update is upon us!
What do you get?

(Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
Blooper Reel – finish the game on Hard to unlock!
Last playthrough stats – An overview of everything that happened in your last playthrough.
Expanded Twitter functionality – Now the game can construct a custom tweet describing the details of your particular playthrough.
Press X to Not Die will be exiting Early Access on Friday October 6, 2017.
Here's a look back at just some of the things we've added to the game since those first days of Early Access:

Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!).
Subtitles! An entire subtitle system had to be implemented, which then paved the way for localization into an eventual 7 languages.
The switchover from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework proved to be a huge undertaking but necessary to resolve many compatibility issues players had encountered. Who knew playing video had so many compatibility problems! The switchover also paved the way for releasing Press X to Not Die on Mac and Linux!
With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!
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05 Oct 2017Developer post
Enter Juggalo, Exit Early Access
Our final and largest Early Access content update is upon us! What do you get? (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new cont
Our final and largest Early Access content update is upon us!
What do you get?

(Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
Blooper Reel – finish the game on Hard to unlock!
Last playthrough stats – An overview of everything that happened in your last playthrough.
Expanded Twitter functionality – Now the game can construct a custom tweet describing the details of your particular playthrough.
Press X to Not Die will be exiting Early Access on Friday October 6, 2017.
Here's a look back at just some of the things we've added to the game since those first days of Early Access:

Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!).
Subtitles! An entire subtitle system had to be implemented, which then paved the way for localization into an eventual 7 languages.
The switchover from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework proved to be a huge undertaking but necessary to resolve many compatibility issues players had encountered. Who knew playing video had so many compatibility problems! The switchover also paved the way for releasing Press X to Not Die on Mac and Linux!
With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!
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26 Sep 2017Developer post
Enter the Juggalo (Beta)!
The Beta is now over and the "Juggalo" branch retired. All new content is now in the game's main branch. Our final and largest Early Access content update is (almost) upon us! We encourage adventurous players to try out the new content by switching to the "Juggalo" branch of the
The Beta is now over and the "Juggalo" branch retired. All new content is now in the game's main branch.
Our final and largest Early Access content update is (almost) upon us! We encourage adventurous players to try out the new content by switching to the "Juggalo" branch of the game using the steps below:

How to switch to the "Juggalo" Branch:

Right-click on the game in Steam and select Properties.
Switch to the Betas tab.
In the drop down, select "juggalo" and close the window.
Allow Steam to download a game update to switch to the "juggalo" branch of Press X to Not Die. The update will be small as the new content is already preloaded into the main branch of the game.
You will know you have switched successfully if it says [juggalo] next to the game's title in Steam after the update.
Once completed, run the game!
What do you get?
(Spoiler Free Description) There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
Blooper Reel – finish the game on Hard to unlock!
Last playthrough stats – An overview of everything that happened in your last playthrough
As of Sept 29th, the new content is now available in all of our supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

Please let us know below if you encounter any issues!
Original post
26 Sep 2017Developer post
Enter the Juggalo (Beta)!
The Beta is now over and the "Juggalo" branch retired. All new content is now in the game's main branch. Our final and largest Early Access content update is (almost) upon us! We encourage adventurous players to try out the new content by switching to the "Juggalo" branch of the
The Beta is now over and the "Juggalo" branch retired. All new content is now in the game's main branch.
Our final and largest Early Access content update is (almost) upon us! We encourage adventurous players to try out the new content by switching to the "Juggalo" branch of the game using the steps below:

How to switch to the "Juggalo" Branch:

Right-click on the game in Steam and select Properties.
Switch to the Betas tab.
In the drop down, select "juggalo" and close the window.
Allow Steam to download a game update to switch to the "juggalo" branch of Press X to Not Die. The update will be small as the new content is already preloaded into the main branch of the game.
You will know you have switched successfully if it says [juggalo] next to the game's title in Steam after the update.
Once completed, run the game!
What do you get?
(Spoiler Free Description) There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
Blooper Reel – finish the game on Hard to unlock!
Last playthrough stats – An overview of everything that happened in your last playthrough
As of Sept 29th, the new content is now available in all of our supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

Please let us know below if you encounter any issues!
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04 Aug 2017Developer post
SteamOS and Linux support!
Press X to Not Die is now available on SteamOS and Linux! If you have any issues on SteamOS or Linux, please report them here:
04 Aug 2017Developer post
SteamOS and Linux support!
Press X to Not Die is now available on SteamOS and Linux! If you have any issues on SteamOS or Linux, please report them here:
05 Jul 2017Developer post
Mac Support!
And on the 8th day, there was Mac support. It is a very new build and we have limited Mac testing resources (Macs are expensive!) so if you have any issues, please discuss in our Mac discussion thread:
05 Jul 2017Developer post
Mac Support!
And on the 8th day, there was Mac support. It is a very new build and we have limited Mac testing resources (Macs are expensive!) so if you have any issues, please discuss in our Mac discussion thread:
16 Jun 2017Developer post
New FNA Build!
After months of work, we are pleased to announce that we have converted Press X to Not Die from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework. What does this mean for you? Glad you asked! Improved compatibility: The XNA Framework was incompatible with certain hardware including some mod
After months of work, we are pleased to announce that we have converted Press X to Not Die from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework. What does this mean for you? Glad you asked!

Improved compatibility: The XNA Framework was incompatible with certain hardware including some models of GeForce GTX graphics cards, rendering the game completely unplayable for a small percentage of users, frustrating them and us alike. Those users should now be able to play the game!
Faster video loading: The XNA Framework always froze the game momentarily whenever loading a video, making for a less than smooth experience when a lot of video switching was going on. FNA totally loads videos without freezing!
Native PS4 controller support: Plug and play, the way it should be, no third party software required! Note that the button prompts will still display Xbox button icons but, you know, Steam itself does that too... Will address in the future!
While we were at it, we also made a few tweaks.
Higher video quality: We had to re-render all the video to use with the FNA Framework which also gave us new render settings that we used to increase the video quality!
Improved crash handling to more easily give you the information you need to tell us that we need to help you! (That sentence made sense, right?)
You can now select options in pop-up menus with left and right on the keyboard!
A number of minor edits to videos to improve flow & correct some editing errors.
We've tested it thoroughly but of course we can only try a tiny fraction of the thousands of possible configurations out there so please let us know any issues you may encounter!
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16 Jun 2017Developer post
New FNA Build!
After months of work, we are pleased to announce that we have converted Press X to Not Die from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework. What does this mean for you? Glad you asked! Improved compatibility: The XNA Framework was incompatible with certain hardware including some mod
After months of work, we are pleased to announce that we have converted Press X to Not Die from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework. What does this mean for you? Glad you asked!

Improved compatibility: The XNA Framework was incompatible with certain hardware including some models of GeForce GTX graphics cards, rendering the game completely unplayable for a small percentage of users, frustrating them and us alike. Those users should now be able to play the game!
Faster video loading: The XNA Framework always froze the game momentarily whenever loading a video, making for a less than smooth experience when a lot of video switching was going on. FNA totally loads videos without freezing!
Native PS4 controller support: Plug and play, the way it should be, no third party software required! Note that the button prompts will still display Xbox button icons but, you know, Steam itself does that too... Will address in the future!
While we were at it, we also made a few tweaks.
Higher video quality: We had to re-render all the video to use with the FNA Framework which also gave us new render settings that we used to increase the video quality!
Improved crash handling to more easily give you the information you need to tell us that we need to help you! (That sentence made sense, right?)
You can now select options in pop-up menus with left and right on the keyboard!
A number of minor edits to videos to improve flow & correct some editing errors.
We've tested it thoroughly but of course we can only try a tiny fraction of the thousands of possible configurations out there so please let us know any issues you may encounter!
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18 Jul 2016Developer post
Press X to Not Die: Special Edition is here!
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