Nobody Wants to Die Steam Charts & Stats

Six hours is all this game can offer you. This is not a detective game (Disco Elysium is way, way better in that regard): everything is linear. Also, you make choices that are often noted as "This choice will affect the future!" but in reality, only two dialog choices (quite random to be honest, you will never guess) affect the ending. The visuals are pleasing and interesting, but the gameplay is very restricted: you are just walking around with gadgets and holding buttons to make them work. The reconstruction tool (a thingy that lets you rewind time at the crime scenes) is cool, but for me it was bugged and always jumped from one moment to another, not allowing me to see normally the whole crime scene. The dialogues are suuper cheesy, it tries so hard to be noir and dark that I just cringed every time the main guy talked. The music is good, jazzy, but it is repetitive and often is not connected to what is happening on the screen. Quite weird when you're seeing someone explode and burn alive with some nice Saturday jazz playing. The story is just mid. The concept is very cool, but it has zero depth and only scratches the surface of morally challenging questions. All you'll get is "Rich people are bad, they exploit everyone else". The story does not develop; you never explicitly connect the dots of all the crimes, you never figure out what happens next, and your choices have no effect. If you enjoy noir, consider buying this game when it's on sale for the aesthetics. Otherwise, buy something else.

Great sci-fi story and beautiful graphics. A short but pleasantly immersive game.

This is a noir Detective game, i dont like noir detective games.... must be good enough to capture someone who doesn't like the style !!

Doesn't matter if you're running 1080p High or 2160p lowest possible, you'll go from steady 60fps to 3fps for no reason, thanks to the Unreal Engine. The street sequences with wide view and depth of field are very smooth, but those 50 square meters rooms where you have to do detective work will drop your fps down to 5. Regarding the game itself : I enjoyed contemplating the game's aesthetics and listening to the lore through the points of interests, but that's it. It's one of those stories that are visually ambitious and too expensive or risky to put on live action, so they end up being mediocre games with painful and uninteresting gameplay. I would rather have watched than played this game. I will have to watch the end anyway because I got stuck at around 80% of the game. I couldn't solve the puzzle despite trying every combination possible and looking at the solution on internet, which didn't work for me for some reason. I guess I encountered a game breaking bug, which is quite something. There's a lot of nonsense regarding the detective work gameplay. I can accept the time rewinding like in Detroit Become Human, but tracking blood stains with UV light from a fresh crime scene that nobody has touched because for some reason they're invisible is idiotic. You'll also track bullet paths in the air with X-RAY. And you'll also track hidden codepads by following their hidden electric cables with the X-ray machine (which makes sense thank god), but those codepads, once found, will just magically appear on smooth and uncovered wall surfaces. Next time let's write a book or make way better gameplay choices.

I have a lot of mixed feelings for Nobody Wants to Die. First of all, it has utterly gorgeous moments. The level designs are genuinely unique and immersive. Not all of the graphics of the game work, and there are some major framerate issues with the fire, but I love the world-building and the sense of immersion here. That said, this game is a walking simulator meets "find the difference" meets button masher, and in terms of "play," I really didn't enjoy it. The story also has some great points and the world-building is unique enough, but the story feels lacking overall, like this could have been a fantastic open world, 30 hour game, but instead it's vignettes of levels strung together along a fragmented story. I'd love to see the Devs do something bigger with this world, this protagonist, etc.

I love it, definitely could hold your hand a lot less, but fantastic visuals, and so far I am convinced this game is RAD

I played the game from start to finish and while I found the game visually satisfying the actual game play was boring. The story line was easily predictable, you spend most of the game either watching mini cut scenes or partaking in meaningless conversations in which you are simply pressing vocal choice 1,2 or 3 for what feels like forever just to end in another cut scene. The game also says you are the detective but then it shows you where everything is and exactly what tool to use for every job. It became boring and tedious to play in the end. The only reason i finished the game was because i personally cant leave anything unfinished. I will say I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this.

The trailer makes it seem more cliche than it is. Beautiful art deco cyberpunk design, compelling story, solid voice acting, and unique gameplay. An entertaining modern noir with an engrossing world. My one grief is the graphics could be more optimized.

Completion: 100% achievements Playtime: 5.6 hours After sitting on my wish-list for some time, I finally picked up Nobody Wants to Die during a 60% off sale—and I’m glad I did. I finished the game in two three-hour sessions and came away with plenty to say. Visually, the game is stunning, and the voice acting is top-notch—though it’s let down at times by oddly quiet audio that can make certain scenes difficult to follow. It nails the gritty cyberpunk detective vibe with confidence, and the atmospheric setting made exploration genuinely enjoyable. The unique world-building really drew me in. That said, I appreciated the short runtime, as the heavily narrative-driven gameplay starts to feel repetitive and overly linear toward the end. The experience leans heavily on the same three investigative tools, which become predictable and gradually lose their impact as the story progresses. It’s also extremely hand-holdy, with objective markers guiding you so directly that it discourages organic exploration. This works to the game’s detriment, as chapters are filled with unique items that, when examined, unlock exclusive dialogue—often missed if you follow the markers too rigidly. Without delving into spoilers, I found the ending meaningful, but oddly misaligned with the way the narrative had been building. As the credits rolled, I was left with a lingering sense of disappointment—as though the mystery that had propelled the experience faded away without a satisfying payoff. While it’s clear that closure wasn’t the intended goal, I still feel the story could’ve been delivered more completely and effectively. I unlocked all achievements and both endings in a single playthrough by consulting a guide beforehand, which made the process smoother. While I don’t regret that choice, it did highlight just how much the game leans on the illusion of meaningful choice. Overall, Nobody Wants to Die is absolutely worth experiencing, and I hope this review encourages others to pick it up and see it through for themselves.

While this game does have good characters and what seemed to be a pretty good story, it had some major gameplay issues that ruined it for me. The main problems were that when using the reconstructor, NPCs would push the PC around and sometimes get the PC stuck until time was rewound. Many of the tools were finicky and wouldn't respond to the first button press to activate them like the UV light and X-ray. The game-breaker for me was when the PC would regularly put evidence away right after it was picked up or right after dialogue finished. I did not get to see some of the evidence grabbed because the PC stashed it too fast or because I waited for the dialogue to end before trying to read it and it was stashed too fast. Additionally, the "detective work" part of connecting the clues is not hard at all and is quite literally just guess-and-check. Combine two clues until it turns green and then move on.... not a challenge, not a puzzle, not fun. If you can look past these issues then it is probably a phenomenal game with good graphics, good voice acting, likable characters, and an interesting story.