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We Who Are About To Die

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

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 works

  • Unique and skill-based physics combat
  • Addictive roguelike progression
  • Deep character customization and management
  • Active and passionate solo developer
  • Varied and immersive gladiator atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve for combat controls
  • Some ai stamina and balance issues
  • Camera and control awkwardness reported
  • Limited content and polish as early access
  • Lack of multiplayer and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Eternal Dread 3

  • Rencounter

  • Darkest Dungeon®

  • Star Renegades

  • Kenshi

  • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Less status-driven

Games that feels like We Who Are About To Die but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Rune Coliseum

  • WitchSpring R

  • Vultures - Scavengers of Death

  • ASTLIBRA Revision

  • Erannorth Reborn

  • Beneath Oresa

Choose your own criteria ->

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

We Who Are About To Die: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Cooperation, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026