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Near Death
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Let's get this out of the way. Near Death is an indie game and it is short. It is *very* short. I took my time, wandered about at the end, reloaded the ending a few times, toyed around Sutro station after campaign end and sat back and soaked in the menu imagery/soundtrack before…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Near Death is a survival-lite game, which means I was able to play and finish it. You can craft a dozen or so items total and you spend a lot of your time wandering around in almost pitch-black hoping to find a sealed off room that you can warm yourself in so you don't die of…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“The good: 1. The game is a well-designed maze (instead of a sandbox that is dominating the survival genre right now) which means you can left no stone unturned and feel good about it. 2. The game has a plot; it is nothing out of the ordinary but it is just interesting enough to…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2022-11 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Post-Launch Round-Up
A lot has happened in the world of Near Death since its launch, and we wanted to put all of the updates and improvements in one place to make it easy to see everything that’s changed. Here’s a list of
Post-Launch Round-Up
A lot has happened in the world of Near Death since its launch, and we wanted to put all of the updates and improvements in one place to make it easy to see everything that’s changed. Here’s a list of
Near Death 1.07: ¡Ya disponible en español!
Near Death is now available in Spanish! Version 1.07 also brings a few bug fixes and enhancements: Near Death is now available in Spanish! Updated physics settings on the long range antenna to help pr
Near Death 1.07: ¡Ya disponible en español!
Near Death is now available in Spanish! Version 1.07 also brings a few bug fixes and enhancements: Near Death is now available in Spanish! Updated physics settings on the long range antenna to help pr
Near Death 1.06: Effects, Effects, Effects! (Plus Bug Fixes!)
We just uploaded patch 1.06 of Near Death, which features a number of fun new visual modes for the game. Why? For no other reason than we had some free time and it looks cool! The new effects really l
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | First-Person · Atmospheric · Survival · Exploration · Female Protagonist · Walking Simulator · Snow · Indie · Soundtrack · Action-Adventure · Singleplayer · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Official site | http://neardeathgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit OS required) Processor: Intel Core i5 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent (64-bit processor required) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 with 1GB memory (or AMD equivalent) Storage: 1 GB available space