A Healer Only Lives Twice

A Healer Only Lives Twice

Released Jun 2016

All You Need Is Heal! Monsters have cornered you in the dungeon corridors. As a newly hired Priest, your duties are to use your magical abilities to heal your comrade, a Knight on the front-line, and provide support during battle. Will these two brave souls live to see the light of day again?

80% positive · 239 reviews
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

A Healer Only Lives Twice launched on June 2, 2016 as a self-contained indie strategy-RPG. The store description presents it as a complete, finished game with a defined gameplay loop (dungeon runs, upgrading the healer, crafting). There is no DLC, no season pass, no announced expansions, and no roadmap of any kind. The developer news feed for this game is almost entirely PLAYISM publisher-wide sale announcements unrelated to this specific title. The one [development_status] post (June 12, 2019) is a community manager farewell notice — a general message posted across all PLAYISM titles, not specific to this game. There have been no game-specific updates, patches with new content, or developer statements about future content at any point since launch. The game launched as a finished product and has received no post-launch content cycle. The last store metadata update timestamp (December 2022, inferred from the asset URL) appears to be a cosmetic image update rather than a content addition. This game shipped complete on release day and no additional content has ever been announced or delivered.
Evidence
Store description presents a fully self-contained game with no mention of DLC, expansions, seasons, or future content plans.
store metadata · Jun 2, 2016 source content shipped
medium
PLAYISM announced the release of Giraffe and Annika — a different game entirely. The post was published on A Healer Only Lives Twice's Steam page as a publisher-wide announcement, not a content update for this game.
news post · Feb 19, 2020 source ambiguous
low

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
PLAYISM
Achievements
13
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

About Game

All You Need Is Heal!
Monsters have cornered you in the dungeon corridors.
As a newly hired Priest, your duties are to use your magical abilities to
heal your comrade, a Knight on the front-line, and provide support during battle.
Will these two brave souls live to see the light of day again?

Game description

This is a command-select strategy game. Quickly choose the skill you need
in order to revive your ally's HP, raise the effectiveness of their abilities,
and dictate the flow of battle in real time.

Another important role is advising your ally which opponent they should attack next.

Gather items and resources for crafting. Level up to become stronger, as you fight
your way through increasingly strong monster tiers. Some monsters will surprise you
with their bizarre attacks!

However, you do not have time to defeat all your enemies. There is only a limited
number of torches for lighting up the dungeon, and you must make your way to the
next tier before they burn out. A red ball item which can be found at each tier will
help you save time. When you use it, the Knight will unleash a single, powerful
attack which will take care of all remaining enemies! Only, enemies defeated with
this attack will not relinquish any items or experience points. It takes more than
a day to become a professional Knight or Priest, after all.

・Annihilate the enemies with your Special attack! (EXP/items will be gone, too...)

Publisher's Voice

This game cannot be finished in a single playthrough.

You need to try your adventure many times to earn the points,
then upgrade the healer from "UPGRADE" of the top menu.
For the first few times, you might get confused what to do,
but after a couple of trials, now the real fight begins.

・An example of UPGRADE. Power the healer up while he is taking a nap.


Playable with any kind of Controller / Keyboard / Mouse.
(You can find the same manual in your steam game folder, or the "quick ref" link on the right of this page.)
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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