Adventure · February 20, 2020

Death and Taxes (2020)

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In this small Indie, short narrative-based game, you take the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. Your choices will affect the world around you. Keep the chaos away or foil plots to destroy the world and rise through the ranks of Reapers all the way up to MIDDLE-MANAGEMENT, wow ! Death and Taxes is a game in the vein of narrative-based indie titles, such as 'Papers, Please', 'Reigns', 'Beholder' and 'Animal Inspector', to name a few. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation! Have a.. totally normal.. office job Talk to your boss Get monies Buy stuff from Mortimer’s Plunder Emporium(?) Decorate your desk Do some paperwork Pet the cat?? Stare in the mirror and talk to yourself Don’t let the existential dread set in DONT LET IT SET IN (ONLY THE FATE OF HUMANKIND IS IN YOUR HANDS, IT'S 100% OK) Listen to that one really catchy tune in the elevator Features: Meaningful choices Branching storyline with multiple [SECRET] endings Make-Your-Own-Grim-Reaper! Fully voiced NPCs Original Soundtrack Original artwork featuring watercolour graphics Dialogue options Upgrade shop Twitch integration!

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Choices Matter · 265
  • Story Rich · 260
  • Simulation · 256
  • Point & Click · 249
  • Multiple Endings · 229
  • Strategy · 225
  • Choose Your Own Adventure · 218
  • Puzzle · 216
  • Replay Value · 215
  • Casual · 214
  • Interactive Fiction · 204
  • Dark Comedy · 196
  • Narrative · 193
  • Adventure · 189
  • Indie · 188

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume7.0k Steam reviewsTop 34% in Adventure
Positive rating87% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 66%
Engagement hours3 h averageTop 83% for session depth among Adventure

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (7)

  • English volume_up
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Turkish
  • Spanish - Spain volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Spanish - Spain

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateFeb 20, 2020
DeveloperPlaceholder Gameworks
PublisherPlaceholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games
Base price$1.94 -85%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External links[email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

3h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

2h

Typical completion time

Achievements

60

Steam unlocks available

Reception Metrics

Steam community

87%Very Positive · 7.0k reviews

6.1k positive · 914 negative

Curator recommendations

7.0k

Content Notes

The game talks about difficult topics in philosophically and helps people deal with topics around death. Mentions of death, suicide in written text.

Editions & Packages

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