Stay Dead Evolution
Released Feb 2015
Be an action B-movie hero and defeat all your enemies in this intense fighting experience! Stay Dead Evolution is a unique arcade action game based on real life footage.
43% positive · 146 reviews
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Evaluation
Stay Dead Evolution launched on February 4, 2015. In the days immediately following release, the developer posted about trading card support (February 5, 2015) and then shipped a balancing and quality-of-life patch on April 22, 2015 — the last known communication from the developer. Since then, there have been no further news posts, announcements, DLC listings, or developer statements of any kind. The store description makes no mention of planned content, expansions, or ongoing development. The game launched as a complete, self-contained arcade fighting experience and has received no meaningful post-launch content. With no outstanding commitments and no developer activity since April 22, 2015, the game is best understood as a finished product.
Evidence
Store description presents Stay Dead Evolution as a complete product with a fixed feature set: 5 stages, 4 difficulty levels, and over 100 moves. No mention of planned additions, DLC, or ongoing development.
Developer shipped a post-launch patch improving difficulty balancing, adding WASD key mapping, and revamping the bonus stage. This is the last recorded developer communication.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Plug In Digital
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
At its core, Stay Dead Evolution is a 'round beat'em up' like Street Fighter with elements taken from rhythm games.
The brand new idea behind Stay Dead Evolution is to have a real time interaction inside a cinematographic scene, using the main character as if he would be a video-game character.
Stay Dead is the union of movies and video-games.
Finally, the sound and graphic quality of a movie joins effectively the interaction of a next generation video-game, creating a unique and involving game experience.
Using the video footage is one aspect of Stay Dead Evolution, but it's not the most important. Our focus is to let the player feels like using the main character in an actual movie, a movie with a real montage and a proper grammar.
Stay Dead Evolution is born refining Stay Dead, a game that in 2012 was well received by public and critique.
Even if the graphic is entirely shot in real life, you can move your character with a great degree of freedom and you can perform more than 100 different techniques distributed in 5 stages.
Use all the classic moves of the fighting games, just watch the result of your stunts with a never-seen-before spectacularity that just a real life shot with a cinematographic direction can provide.
FEATURES
- Fast arcade action
- 5 different martial arts
- 5 unique environments, different for look, feel and directing style
- More than 100 martial arts moves
- 4 difficulty levels
- Real time interaction in a movie
- Original concept for a groundbreaking approach to the genre
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Last evaluated Jun 19, 2026
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