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Noobs Want to Live

2023

Should you play it?

Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!

What works

  • Unique and appealing art style
  • Humorous and quirky character design
  • Variety of skills and synergies
  • Good value for price
  • Accessible and light-hearted gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Heavy reliance on rng and rerolling
  • Limited map variety and content
  • Some balancing and translation issues
  • Short meta-progression and replay lifespan
  • Occasional bugs and technical issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Infinite Tao

  • The Braves

  • X Invader

  • Rocket Rats

  • Pixel Survivors : Roguelike

  • Murim Survival

  • Ketz: Galactic Overlords

  • Fray Fight

  • Little Witch Survivors

  • Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors

  • Twilight Survivors

  • Journey to the West Survivor

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™

  • Pizza Hero

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    Swarm Grinder
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    Magicraft

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Noobs Want to Live: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Leadership, Thrill.

Last update: 29/07/2026