Death and Taxes

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!

Death and Taxes is a story rich, simulation and choices matter game developed by Placeholder Gameworks and published by Placeholder Gameworks and Hawthorn Games.
Released on February 20th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 6,194 reviews of which 5,415 were positive and 779 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.39€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Death and Taxes into these genres:

Story Rich Simulation Choices Matter Point & Click Strategy Multiple Endings Choose Your Own Adventure Puzzle Replay Value Casual Interactive Fiction Dark Comedy Narrative Adventure Atmospheric Indie 2D Conversation Character Customization Singleplayer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
Processor: i3 or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS 10.12+
Processor: i3 or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
Storage: 2 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 16.04+ or equivalent
Processor: i3 or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Aug. 2024

First time I had fun working behind a desk and didn't get a burnout and the desire to scream and cry, curled up on the bathroom floor. (Story is totally made-up and I haven't experienced it /sarcasm)

June 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

May 2024

What a beautiful piece of Art! Yes, I do get the reviews that complain this is maybe a bit of a tedious and repetitive game because, after-all, being “The Reaper” is a 9-to-5 office job where you read reports on a daily basis, etc. etc. But there is so much more to it! Like: Lots of character customization items, dark humor, freedom of choices, personality tests, a cool bartender, real-life cocktail recipes (no kidding!), talking plants, and wide variety of possible outcomes amongst other things. Even the day-job of reading reports and deciding who gets to live and who must die (all this while not disappointing your ‘Boss’ and/or his cat ) is quite entertaining if you really get into it. Maybe not a game “to die for” (pun intended). But absolutely one to try, even if only for the nice artwork and very unique gameplay it has to offer. Alright now, before you leave, don’t forget to give this review a ‘thumbs-up’! ....Otherwise remember: ‘I’ will be the one making the final decision when your ‘file’ gets on my desk! ;p

March 2024

The game has its merits, despite the premise being a bit basic and the writing not that great. Voice acting was incredible, that much has to be admitted. The main demerit I would say is the grinding aspect. You can read the profiles you have to mark as carefully as you want, but even then, the only 'real' way to get the good endings is by mindlessly going through a few playthroughs until all profiles are marked automatically for you, at which point, why bother? It was fun the first few couple of times, when you're figuring everything out and the twists happen, but after that, it's just pretty boring grinding. I still had some achievements to go, and they were fairly easy, but it would require some more mind-numbing marking of profiles in specific ways with no mystery added. I don't know how the game could even be fixed. It depends on its repetition to learn lessons of the past, but the dullness of the gameplay once you run out of new text to read can be pretty damning. Still, a fun experience, and for the amazing discounted price I got it for, very much worth my money. Don't expect too much, and you'll do fine.

Feb. 2024

I thoroughly enjoyed my first playthrough, and plan to get all of the achievements. One playthrough is about 3 hours, and I would say that the game is replayable, especially if you already like management mechanics. I love how many achievements there are, some are quite easy to get, but it's not possible to get them all or even half in one playthrough. One last warning; do not give the cat the gerbil. Maybe do it for the achievement once, but it's not worth the moral agony.

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-80% 11.99€ 2.39€

8.5

5,415

779

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Developer

Placeholder Gameworks

Publisher

Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games

Release 20 Feb 2020

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