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We Who Are About To Die
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“The sole title since the PS2 era's Shadow of Rome, a neglected classic unleashed over two decades ago, to profoundly quench my yearning for an authentic gladiatorial "sim". Truly superlative craftsmanship, Jordy! No other game is better suited to feature permadeath among its…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“i’m suprised to see folks reviewing the game saying it’s abandoned? they must not be on the discord. there are numerous updates and they are good at relaying of information on the progression of such developments. the game is a lot of fun especially for the price. it sits high…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“A fun game, a REALLY fun game... bogged down by a mountain of questionable decisions. The combat this game has is...excellent, genuinely. It's a beautiful system, though it has a few flaws here and there. My problems with the game are everything *around* the combat system. Why…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 10:17 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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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.
News: 1.0 Update + Closed Testing starting soon!
Ave Aspirants!It's time for a news update from Aegic Entertainment!The 3 of us are in the deep-end of the 1.0 Update but I wanted to share some news about the status. It's going to be a bit vague stil
WWAATD EA v0.88 Balancing Patch
AVE ASPIRANTS!WWAATD Patch v0.88 is out now!Changelog - BalancingDoubled Max Stamina Recovery (When you take damage, your Max Stamina also goes down, but recovers over time - twice as fast now)Minimum
WWAATD EA v0.87 General Patch (AI, Balancing, Bugfixes)
AVE ASPIRANTS!V0.87 is OUT NOW!v0.87 is primarily another balancing patch but we also addressed some of the more pressing bugs.From our testing, the difficulty and general flow of the new AI is in a m
WWAATD EA v0.86 Balancing Patch
AVE ASPIRANTS!1 day 1 patch! The Anniversary Update was released yesterday and met with a lot of kind words and valid feedback - thank you! On DifficultyI've been rebalancing the game (trying to avoid
CONTENT UPDATE: Anniversary Update OUT NOW! + 30% discount
Early Access v0.85 - Anniversary UpdateHello all! Today is a special day in the life of We Who Are About To Die, as well as in my life, to be honest. The game was in solo development for 7 years until
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Indie · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · Simulation · RPG · Action RPG · Physics · Swordplay · Gore · Replay Value · Perma Death (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Workshop · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese |
| Achievements | 3 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 / Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.66 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 670 Storage: 6000 MB available space