Noobs Want to Live

Noobs Want to Live

Released Feb 2023

Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!

89% positive · 4,976 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Noobs Want to Live launched on February 13, 2023 as a complete roguelike game at a low price point ($4.99). Following launch, the developer shipped two major content updates: v1.1.0 on March 16, 2023 (adding new characters, stages, skills, monsters, and bosses) and v1.2.0 on April 26, 2023 (adding an Endless Mode, new skins, and events). After that burst of post-launch activity, the developer continued with bug fix and maintenance patches, the last recorded one being v1.2.4 on October 10, 2023. In December 2023, the studio participated in a cross-promotional bundle with another game, but this was not a content update to the game itself. There have been no developer communications of any kind since December 2023 — over two and a half years as of June 2026. No future content has been announced, no unreleased DLC appears in the store listing, and the developer has not indicated any ongoing development plans. Given the game's very low price, its self-contained roguelike structure, and the long silence following the final patch, the game appears to have shipped as a complete product with a modest post-launch content cycle that concluded by late 2023.
Evidence
v1.2.0 major update launched: new Endless Mode with 30+ events, new character skins and comics, new achievements.
news post · Apr 26, 2023 source content shipped
high
v1.1.0 major update launched: new characters (Snappy Bobcat, Foxy Lady), new stage difficulty, 5 new monsters, 9 new bosses, 24 new synergy skills, and more.
news post · Mar 16, 2023 source content shipped
high

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Details

Publisher
Lightning Games
Achievements
124
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

We have it all (or some)! The sword master hero, the fireball totting maiden, a mechanically adept summoner, a great yellow canine who literally creates gold, a master of bacon... Well, each character is unique, to say the least!

Finely crafted cardboard cutout characters give the game a unique and fun feel as you fight your way to godhood! Come and give the monsters a whack as you blow up the screen with fireballs and black holes, and then some!

Master specific skills that create synergies with one another to cause mayhem and destruction. In Peachville, 1+1 is not 2, it is at least 4.5! What devastating synergies are there, you ask? You'll just have to figure that out for yourself! How many synergies can you find today?

Rabbits, ducks...... strange and interesting poultry have a hundred skills with armed evolution and treatment suppression both.

Each upgrade may be what takes you from wimp to hero! Spend gold to reroll your skill selections! Oh, and gain meta-progression in the shape of talent points to make your runs easier as you progress!

Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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