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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Discounts
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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 | 7.9Kreviews | 86% | — | $2.6M |
| $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
I bought the game expecting a "Papers, Please"-like experience, and it mostly delivered. DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE FOOLED BY MOST OTHER REVIEWS! The choices you make DO matter! You just wont be able to notice it until the very end of your first run. Oh, if you intent to 100%, be prepared.... You´ll need to do AT LEAST SIX RUNS and you WILL need to find a good guide and stick to it, because there just are that many options. Regarding other similar complains I´ve seen, many can be "fixed" by buying widgets from Mortimer´s in-game shop. Im not here to defend the game. If a player didn´t enjoy their time, I can see why, but many don´t seem to give it enough time, in my opinion. The real fun comes after the first run with the "new game +" mode. To resume this yapping: if you plan on buying and playing the game, please have in mind you´ll need to dive 3 hours give or take to actually enjoy a playthrough...
上班模拟器，真是给我玩累了
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Every market we collect.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 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% |
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| $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
I really liked the game, and honestly, I have no negative comments; I hope everyone who buys and plays it has a great time.I really liked the game, and honestly, I have no negative comments; I hope everyone who buys and plays it has a great time.
Really cute game that's more about death than taxes. If you're a softie like me, you may have a hard time choosing between the profiles. I did enjoy that you get to see the consequences of your actions via Crawker, sometimes things happened that I totally didn't expect to. Might finish my New Game+ run being a murderhobo this time...
This is a pretty fun game! I think this'll be a good game for completionists that like to have a laugh such as I, since there are so many routes you can go down to get the various endings. The characters are interesting, and I must give a huge round of applause to the voice actors, as they did a fantastic job breathing a unique sense of life (or death??) into the story. Also, #MortimerGang... I'd be a part of his scallywag crew any day - I almost feel bad for intending to wipe out his entire catalogue to reach 100%
I wanted to like this game, and I was quite interested as I first dived into it. However, after about thirty minutes, it got boring and repetitive. The idea and art style is very cool and unique, but the game itself isn't as fun as it seemed on the store page. I liked Fate's character, but overall didn't care for the others and the dialogue didn't interest me much. I hate when all the characters are pretentious and talk at you. Not to mention how the usage of gender neutral pronouns on all the profiles of the humans made them feel shallow and the text was awkward to read.
我觉得还蛮好玩的一开始，不过也就是个比较小的游戏，有些时候仔细研读做出的选择还是难以意料（有一些要结合新闻来看），不过玩了两周目就有点 没有意思了
Обычно инди хочется закрывать на 100%, эту -- не хочется Вторична во всех смыслах, не особо смешная, не особо интересная. Скоротать часок-другой, посмотреть как ты всех угробишь -- можно, но дальше, после одной завершённой катки игру видеть не хочется. Второе прохождение? Новая игра+? -- Не, чёта не хочу, пока Лучше Паперс плеазе купить или любую другую из её многочисленных клонов
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ESTOU ADORANDO
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