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Death and Taxes

Death and Taxes

|Poland, China|Visual Novel, Point-and-click

7.9 /10

Pretty good

Hot

8.5k ratings
Time to beat
Main + extras
3h
Rating sources
Steam · Player score8.6/108.5k ratingsIGDB · Critic score7.5/101 ratingsIGDB · Player score7.7/1036 ratings
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Why play it

In this 2D, 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!

Game highlights
Rating momentum

Pretty good: 7.9/10 across 8.5k ratings. Overall vibes are good; safe to add to your backlog.

Play style

Leans into Visual Novel, Point-and-click, Role-playing (RPG), with a main story around 3h. Check if that style and time commitment fit you.

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DestructoidAdzuken · 14 Sep, 2020
7.5/10

It's definitely a worthwhile game, especially if you're a fan of bureaucracy simulators. If you get stimulation from organizing, considering, and processing. Entrepreneurial pirate aside, the game is well written and delivered. The soundtrack is outstanding, the atmosphere is just so, and the replay value is nice. I'm not sure I'll be exhuming it for another playthrough anytime soon, but it was a decent experience before it was put to rest.

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Games FreezerCasey Roberts · 25 Jun, 2024
8/10

The only two things in life are certain

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NaviGamesVera Santiago · 30 Sep, 2023
8/10

Game with a simple approach and gameplay, with a fun 2D art and an immersive soundtrack that make us reflect on our moral compass and the reality of the butterfly effect.

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Gaming ProfessorsJan Pinc · 24 Feb, 2022
8/10

Death and Taxes offers an entertaining look at how bureaucracy works in the afterlife. The combination of simulation and visual novel elements blends well with the game’s attractive graphics, pleasant music, and witty dialogue. It’s just a shame that the mechanical nature of the gameplay carries over into the story, and unless you’re willing to thoroughly explore every detail, the game will likely start to feel repetitive pretty soon. Your first playthrough will be great, the second maybe even better, but any subsequent ones will probably be just for the achievements or alternate endings.

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Rapid Reviews UKRob Lake · 29 Sep, 2020
8/10

Death and Taxes is a puzzle game where you play as a newly spawned Grim Reaper. Set in an office building we are given the task of deciding who lives and more importantly who dies, through the admin of quite a lot of paper work. With a new quota of who lives and dies being set each day we can choose to either ignore these or follow them dutifully. However there are consequences…

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LadiesGamers.comPaula Moore · 22 Sep, 2020
8/10

As Death and Taxes is quite a short game its definitely worth your while to play through the game a few times to make the most of it and its different endings. I found the game to be enjoyable and funny. On my second play through I made different choices and got a completely different ending. While playing as the Grim Repear and dealing out death to unsuspecting humans may not be to everyones taste, Death and Taxes is a sarcastic, humorous take on a mundane office job with a twist!

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UnboxedAri Sadler · 14 Sep, 2020
9/10

If you want a story driven game that makes you question everything you know and think about yourself . If you want something with gameplay that isn’t too hard and that you can relax with, get this game. If you want something that narratively challenges you while respecting you as a person, then get this game. If you want a bang for your buck and one of the most underrated gaming experiences this year then please, for the love of god, get this damn game.

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TechRaptorCourtney Ehrenhofler · 28 Feb, 2020
8/10

Death and Taxes is a short, fun game with plenty of replay value and enough challenge to keep you reincarnating a few times over.

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Gaming FyxAndre Cole · 25 Feb, 2020
8/10

Death and Taxes is a pleasant way to spend an afternoon or two discovering the various ways your actions and choices can impact the world and find an outcome.

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BazimagSina Golabzade · 22 Feb, 2020
7/10

Good storytelling and voice acting is matched with colorful characters and nice visuals but the gameplay is very lacking in the fun department.

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