
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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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
Bro I don't know what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on and when I ask Fate he just basically shrugs. Like... ♥♥♥♥ off.
Complicated plot that I had to research after finishing the game, which is a good thing. But I still don't quite understand it, which I also think is a good thing? However the gameplay is a bit dull and replayability is not enjoyable. It doesn't make you feel like you have any impact on moral decisions.
画风喜欢,但玩不明白
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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% |
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| 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
6.5/10 对没有全成就要求或者仅仅游玩少数周目的玩家:好评 对全成就或多周目玩家:中评 游戏的可玩性勉强达到一般水平,全靠美术和音乐支撑我度过后期无比痛苦的游玩体验。美术风格特点鲜明,开头动画很有趣,生死档案消散时的粒子做了差分,配音符合人物性格。 优点说完了来说说缺点,越到后期游戏的问题就越明显: 1.Grim的换装除了在镜子对话和开头部分没有任何体现,平日里能看到的只有电梯里的小人(通过头部剪影区分)。 2.游戏的电梯设计索然无味,每次汇报要跑到最顶上去见Fate,除了酒馆和小卖部之外,中间的其他房间和最底下的档案室无法进入,设计了不如不设计(哪怕做个可以交互的内容也好,就像每周酒馆不同人物的对话一样)。 3.结局的高低混乱度似乎是以最高/最低混乱为标准的,有时候我处在良好阶段无法点亮对应内容。也可能是bug? 4.剧情方面emmm……只能说玩家反馈非常之奇怪。理解制作组想要反常规的想法,但当你像我一样为了刷结局把看似是坏人的角色毙掉之后属性值-1000水晶球疯狂起火,你也会崩溃的(‵□′)。 5.主题上没有我期待的点题方式,或者说深度不够。每周目开头提问的“充满官僚主义的来生”,Grim工作体现的不太多,反而是Fate有死气沉沉、不想上班的班味。标题“死亡和税赋”在和Fate的对话里点出,并有对应的彩蛋,不过这也是我最喜欢的部分(小幽灵万岁!)。光凭简单的数值加减很难引发玩家更多的深入思考,和宣传不太符合。 6.最累的一点,想要全成就很可能要反复打多个周目,但是每周目的差异不大,除了喝酒和听故事。我光是为了打彩蛋和打破规则成就重开的就有不下七次,正常的点亮结局也至少花了十周目,还是在参照攻略的情况下。加上这游戏的重复体验感非常之差,简直是地狱般的折磨。唯一的收获大概是Fate后来对Grim的称呼似乎代表着重开的周目数,比如“死神#21”就对应着你度过的周目数是21周目。 7.没有SL机制。和第6点紧密相连的一点,也是最严重的缺陷。一共28天的漫长操作里居然没有一个地方可以手动存档,这意味着你一旦操作失误,没有任何挽回的机会,只能从头来过。退出是什么界面回来就是什么界面,不要妄想通过回到主界面回档(x_x),这是完全不可行的。 综上所述,不建议全价购入,打折的话倒是可以一试。
6/10 目前体验 美术不错;文本量大;有些道具作用的引导不行,买来好像只是好看?;重复性高;有些重要道具没买游戏内容和体验都不在一个层次,但没啥指引; 总结就是不适合一口气打下去,但隔一段时间打又会忘了一些人物,挺尴尬的(
Similar to Papers Please many ways, but compelling enough to make it a worthwhile playthrough for fans of the genre. But if you haven't played Papers Please yet then absolutely play that first.
i talked about taxes to a cat ♥♥♥♥ this cat btw
Oyunun grafikleri tatlı ve hoş. Ancak hikâyesi oldukça kısa ve seçim çeşitliliği çok fazla değil. Ana hikâye yaklaşık 3 saat sürüyor, yan içeriklerle birlikte ise 5 saati bulabiliyor. Buna rağmen deneyimlenmeye değer bir oyun. Kısa olmasına rağmen keyifli bir deneyim sunuyor, fakat bir süre sonra kendini tekrar etmeye başladığı için sıkabiliyor. Bu yüzden benim puanım 6/10.
1/10 :]
Очень давно хотел пройти данный проект - и остался довольный! Классный проект задающая интересные вопросы (вот уж не много знаю игр где приходиться играть роль жнеца которая задают такое) Расслабляет, иногда можно похихикать с местного юмора - рекомендую
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