
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
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Prices
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.43/day in the week to Aug 24 → 3.29/day in the week after.
About
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!
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $12.99 | 8.6Kreviews | 86% | — | $2.5M |
| $12.99 | 125ratings | 87% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 223 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
做全成就还是推荐看一眼攻略,可以大致安排一下路线,不会把垃圾时间拉得很长。 游戏的前面3周目体验感极佳,整个游戏的价值都体现在前面3周目,价格和质量可以对应,推荐购买。
Ta gra to fizyczny dowód, że pewne są tylko 2 rzeczy. Śmierć i PODATKI. *smuteczek
Disclaimer: I played this game on itch.io so please ignore Steam's reported playtime. -------------------------------------- Death and Taxes is a visual novel about being a cog in the spiritual bureaucracy of the afterlife. People need to die and that means paperwork and paperwork is your work. Follow the instructions of the higher ups, they know how to keep things running, that's why they're higher up. Don't go getting any funny ideas above your station, this is life and death stuff. Obviously there's more to it than that, a change of scenery isn't enough to make dotting "t"s and dashing "i"s interesting. Indeed as well run as the great beyond may be something funny is going on and you can, if you want, see if you can figure out what it is. Death and Taxes describes itself like Beholder or Papers Please but really it's more of a traditional visual novel than those games. Nothing wrong with that, obviously, but if you're looking for intense box-ticking action this may leave you slightly cold in that department. The choices you make mostly have an effect in a "changing the ending stat bar" way and aside from some little sub-narratives you can follow it's mainly decided via aggregate. No, Death and Taxes' gameplay is a vehicle for it's stellar writing. Funny, thoughtful and occasionally even a bit challenging, Death and Taxes delivers a satisfying story. It's not long so it ends before it can run out of gas. I'd highly recommend Death and Taxes.
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Every market we collect.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Spain, Japanese*languages with full audio support
| $1.69−87% |
| 53ratings |
| 70% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $12.99 | 47ratings | 84% | — | not modelled |
| $12.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 223 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
güzel sakin sakin oynayabileceğiniz bi oyun. bardaki ablayla nası evleniyoz çözemedim bence evlenebiliriz.
Крутая игрушка про то как исчадие отправили работать как только он родился
趣味性不高
Um jogo que brinca de forma brilhante com tudo o que imaginamos ou fantasiamos sobre a morte. A ideia de existir uma agência composta por várias “Donas Mortes”, cada uma responsável por uma coisa, um setor e um dever específico, é simplesmente genial. O universo do jogo é criativo, cheio de personalidade e consegue transformar um tema pesado em algo extremamente interessante. Mas o grande destaque é colocar você no papel de um funcionário responsável por decidir o destino das pessoas. Escolher quem vive, quem morre e, consequentemente, definir o rumo do mundo faz com que cada decisão tenha peso. É um jogo que constantemente faz você pensar nas consequências das próprias escolhas. É muito divertido tentar encontrar o equilíbrio… embora, aparentemente, eu não tenha sido muito boa nisso. Consegui condenar a humanidade umas 30 vezes. 😀 Recomendo demais.
cipsler ve cupslar
Работа клерком: скучная рутина или спасение мира? Честно признаюсь: я совершенно не умею играть в стратегии. Построение планов на долгосрок это вообще не про меня, мой мозг сразу начинает дымиться 😅 Но Death and Taxes зацепила меня еще на этапе постера со скелетом в пиджаке, а описание добило окончательно. Решила дать ей шанс, несмотря на жанр. И как же хорошо, что решилась! Сама концепция здесь просто блестящая. Вы новоиспеченный (причем в прямом смысле испечённый) Жнец, которому выдают стопку дел. Перед вами анкеты людей, и вам нужно решить: кто из них умрет сегодня, а кто поживет еще немного. И самое крутое, каждое ваше решение имеет последствия. Убережешь врача - он спасет десяток других завтра. Позволишь умереть мелкому воришке - запустишь цепочку событий, которая может привести к катастрофе мирового масштаба. Этот уставший офисный планктон с косой буквально держит мир на своих костлявых плечах, хотя, как оказывается, он не один такой. Кстати, было бы очень интересно увидеть такой сюжет в формате сериала! Но то, что заставило меня провести в игре много времени вопреки нелюбви к жанру это аудиовизуальный пир. Рисовка потрясающая: уютная, ламповая, комиксная, но при этом в ней всегда сквозит легкая жуть. А саундтрек... Это отдельный вид искусства. Музыка волшебная, она идеально попадает в тон игры. Местами напоминает работы Дэнни Эльфмана: вроде бы сказочно, карнавально и весело, но стоит прислушаться и ты чувствуешь холод пустоты за спиной. Композиции создают ту самую атмосферу «жуткого неизвестного», под которую невероятно приятно перебирать бумажки. Я даже поймала себя на мысли, что оставляю игру включенной в меню, просто чтобы послушать эти мелодии. За всю сессию игра ни разу не вылетела, багов замечено не было. Оптимизация отличная, ноутбук тянет без проблем, ничего не греется. Возможно, мелкие недочеты просто скрылись за прекрасной картинкой и музыкой, потому что техническое исполнение абсолютно не отвлекало от сюжета. Если вы тоже обходите симуляторы бумажной работы стороной - попробуйте эту. Она короткая, стильная, неглупая и оставляет после себя правильное послевкусие. Тот редкий случай, когда инди-игра сделана с огромным вкусом и любовью к деталям. Однозначно рекомендую добавить в библиотеку.
以满分100分来说,可以给个75分 首先扣十分给在班味很重,真的就是处理文书文件而且作为多周目游戏二周目内容极难撑起第二周目游玩。更何况是多周目。 再扣10分给在意义不明的台灯上,台灯用于看你的决定所带来的属性效果,但你决定下去前却不能看实际效果,导致很多看上去还不赖的选择其实全是负收益 接着5分扣在那意义不明的策反主角的人,纯意义不明,测试完主角后有后续剧情,但对结局却又完全不影响。根本不知道他存在的意义何在。 优点 音乐还行,各路配角角色性格鲜明,“命运”这一角色动机明确,但对于很多哲学思考深度不足,但不做更多要求。 小道具新鲜感十足,真的有帮助到主角的感觉。 毕竟是py上几块钱淘来的。
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
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Players also reviewed
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