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The Unliving

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App ID 986040
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Team17 Digital
Franchise RocketBrush Games
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unity Engine
Last Changenumber 29380847
Last Record Update 4 June 2025 – 20:58:47 UTC ()
Release Date 26 October 2023 – 17:00:09 UTC ()
😌 61.90%
835 reviews
9
In-Game

Raise the dead as a fearsome Necromancer in the dark world of The Unliving! Lead your undead armies into the endless fight in this rogue-lite action RPG game. Burn cities to ash with devastating magic spells, slay epic bosses and turn your enemies into morbid servants.

Additional Information

Developer RocketBrush Games
metacritic_name The Unliving
controller_support partial
community_visible_stats Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Team17 Digital
Store Release Date 26 October 2023 – 17:00:42 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.gg/QMzDEwE
https://www.facebook.com/theunlivinggame/
https://x.com/TheUnlivingGame
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0sfyyfeNiBrflMmK1qAxA/
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), Indie (23), RPG (3)
Steam Release Date 26 October 2023 – 17:00:09 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 25 March 2025 – 06:58:27 UTC () (1742885907)
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schinese亡灵法师
review_score 5
review_percentage 63
Detected Technologies (?) Unity Engine, SteamworksNET SDK, UnityURP SDK, Wwise SDK, cURL SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • Note: This game does not default to external Bluetooth/USB controllers on Deck, and may require manually switching the active controller via the Quick Access Menu
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  • Note: This game does not default to external Bluetooth/USB controllers on SteamOS, and may require manually switching the active controller via the Quick Access Menu
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 15 November 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 9885125
  • configuration:
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    requires_internet_for_setup0
    requires_internet_for_singleplayer0
    recommended_runtimeproton-7.0-5
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    requires_voice_files0
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
Early Access Release Date 7 November 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC ()
First seen on SteamDB 19 November 2018 – 13:32:49 UTC (), in changelist #5410668
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

11 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Portugal Yes

Tags

🎲 RPG 💥 Action 👤 Singleplayer 🗺️ Adventure 🧟 Zombies 🛡️ Hack and Slash 😈 Villain Protagonist 🏰 Dungeon Crawler 👻 Action Roguelike ☠️ Perma Death 😓 Difficult 👻 Roguelite 💥 Action RPG 🌆 Isometric 👻 Roguelike 😱 Horror 🔀 Procedural Generation 📖 Lore-Rich 👾 Pixel Graphics 🎨 Hand-drawn

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

Assets

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Trailers
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Steam charts

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  • 9 players right now
  • 11 24-hour peak
  • 1,168 all-time peak 7 November 2022
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  • 26,035 followers
  • #8947 in top sellers
  • 532 positive reviews
  • 303 negative reviews
  • 63.71% positive reviews

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  • 0 24-hour peak
  • 18,392 all-time peak
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  • 😌 Mixed
  • 61.90% SteamDB Rating
  • 532 63.7% positive reviews
  • 303 36.3% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
26 October 2023 – 17:00 Steam Release -
20 August 2024 – 15:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Diamond Collection: RPG and Fantasy Edition - Build Your Own Bundle -
28 October 2024 – 16:00 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2024) -

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The Unliving had an all-time peak of 1168 concurrent players on 7 November 2022.

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