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Praise Dead

Praise Dead

Praise Dead is a roguelike auto-battler where you create zombies from the parts of dead villagers and monsters. Use your zombies to defeat waves of demons, and to harvest resources to improve and upgrade your village.

Released Dec 5, 2023 Developer Intrepid Marmot Platforms Windows RPGStrategyIndieTurn-Based CombatRogue-like
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-05-18)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

72.9%positive129 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“I'll be damned, the developer fixed the game. I would describe Praise Dead as Slay the Spire if it had an auto battler instead of cards. The challenge is in resource and zombie management. Praise Dead isn't the deepest game in the world. It can be kinda easy. And it can be an…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Fun and quick little game with a little of strategy and easily can become a time sink. I spent the first few rituals having a hard time, but then it clicked when I finally beat the first ritual and went into the endless mode. By halfway, I will say, the loop was pretty…”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“I don't know man. There's some cool stuff, but it's buggy. And one of the random events literally destroyed all my zombies and gear just 3 levels before the final boss. If I hadn't been already crushing it and able to buy back hundreds of random organs, it would have been game…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2024-10 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

57all-time peak
0 10 20 2024 No data collected for this period 11 avg · Jul 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

13achievements
14.5%median completion
5.8%rarest: Complete Ritual Level 9
57.7% of players 48.2% of players 46.5% of players 44.3% of players 27.6% of players 20.1% of players 14.5% of players 11.4% of players 9.3% of players 8.0% of players 6.8% of players 6.2% of players 5.8% of players 57.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
57.7%Defeat Unending Mistake — The priest may have ruined everything for us...
48.2%Defeat Pained Thoughts — The thoughts never leave his head...
46.5%Defeat The Final Sin — The sin will never be cleansed...
Rarest badges of honor
5.8%Complete Ritual Level 9 — We are going to need a bigger boat.
6.2%Complete Ritual Level 8 — You too blacksmith.. you too?
6.8%Complete Ritual Level 7 — They just keep coming.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 30, 2026
BUG FIXES!

This patch is almost entirely bug fixes, driven directly by your reports and reviews. Thank you to everyone who posted repro steps in the discussions — several of these were found because of them. Hig

Jul 27, 2025
Endless Revamp Patch (v1.3.3)

Endless Revamp Patch (v1.3.3) The title was not a typo. The latest patch focuses on completely reworking and overhauling endless mode. Not only is endless mode harder, it’s also been transformed from

Jul 12, 2025
Rarity Overhaul Patch (v1.3.2)

Today’s patch focuses on all things organ rarities, starting with a nice visual bar to display how likely each rarity is. As you upgrade your shop and unlock more rare organs this bar will update to r

Jul 08, 2025
Inventory Sorting Patch (v1.3.1)

Inventory Sorting Patch (v1.3.1) This patch adds sorting buttons to the worker screen, saving many clicks! Min-maxers be warned: it does not auto-assign workers to the slot that gives the most. Rather

Jul 06, 2025
Gates to Purgatory (v1.3)

With much anticipation the release of version 1.3, endless mode has now arrived! Test your mettle against waves of increasingly hard demons! The fate of the realm is in your hands. This update also br

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresCasual, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsRPG · Strategy · Indie · Turn-Based Combat · Rogue-like · Dark Fantasy · Pixel Graphics · Auto Battler · Tactical · Simulation · Rogue-lite · Zombies (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, German, Traditional Chinese *
Achievements13
Official sitehttps://www.intrepidmarmot.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10, Windows 11 Processor: 2.0 Ghz Graphics: 1Gb Video Memory Storage: 1 GB available space