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Death and Taxes

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About the Game

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!

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User Reviews

Very Positive
86 user reviews
81%
Positive
12 hrs at review
Recommended

Death and Taxes is a simulation game, where you take on the role of the Grim Reaper. Everyday you make choices that shape yourself and the future of earth. It's got a Trolley Problem concept. It's got a very pleasing to the eye and unique art style and is a lighthearted indie simulation adventure game. It's got good replayability because your choices affect outcomes. It comes with achievements and is a single player game. ❤ Audience ❤ ☑ Beginner ☑ Casual Gamer ☐ Normal Gamer ☐ Expert ☼ Graphics ☼ ☐ Bad ☐ Alright ☐ Good ☑ Beautiful ☐ Fantastic ♬ Music/Sound/Effects♬ ☐ Bad ☐ Alright ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful ☐ Fantastic ☠ Difficulty ☠ ☑ Easy ☐ Average ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Hard ☐ Unfair § Bugs § ☐ Bugs destroy the game ☐ Lots of bugs ☐ Few Bugs ☐ You can use them for speedrun ☑ Nothing encountered ☯ Story ☯ ☐ There is none ☐ Bad ☐ Alright ☑ Good ☐ Fantastic ...

4 helpful
2 hrs at review
Recommended

fate is hot

2 helpful
39 min at review
Recommended

"Very funny, very cute, I don't quite get it, but cute" - Silvio Dante

1 helpful
8 hrs at review
Recommended

Great narrative game where choices matter and fully voiced acted.

1 helpful
4 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Alright game at first, but it gets pretty boring and repetitive. Especially if you're an achievement hunter this game has achievements that require you to complete the game multiple times just for 1 achievement. The story was alright but the characters and dialogue were just very uninteresting and i honestly couldn't get into it, the dialogue also is very lengthy and can take quite a while, i eventually just started skipping through it. When you're signing who to kill it has descriptions of everyone and what they do, which is completely pointless other than the game telling you specific people need to die, but once you've filled the criteria you can literally just kill or save anyone else and there's nothing influencing your choice other than getting in trouble for killing too many people, or sympathy for the characters, which is hard to feel when they're completely random people on a sheet of paper. The only other thing is the state of the world gets affected by who u kill or let live...

1 helpful
5 hrs at review
Recommended

An incredible Visual Novel / Papers, Please hybrid. This game should be one hundred times more popular and well-known. Buy it, and you're not only going to get a great experience, but you're supporting a small indie Estonian studio with a clever name and a great game. There are only two constants in life. 8/10.

1 helpful
38 min at review
Recommended

να πληρωσω τα κοινοχρηστα? ουοχι κυριε.

1 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

it's more like a mixed feeling rather than "not recommended", but the fact i don't feel the need to come back to this game, the way i was constantly just skipping dialogues, the way i didn't feel the need to progress in the "Plus" mode it gives when you finish it once, all those kinda say something idk i don't hate games that don't give a direction to the player, in fact i've liked many other cases where this happens, but it was very unclear how approving and denying (using Papers Please vocabulary since its inspiration was very clear, not a bad thing surely many other games have taken inspiration from there) each human affected the 4 main stats on the human world. certainly i have to find key-words on each description and judge on my own what stat goes up or down, but a lot of the human profiles felt rushed and/or unreasonable. i guess it was an okay experience for 1,5 euros thank god i got it on sale i would have mourned my money otherwise, the art style pulled me in very easily

1 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

there's a lot of existing media (games, movies etc.) out there that has its central theme based around the uncomfortable weight of responsibility that comes with making decisions that impact who lives or dies, directly or indirectly. so while the idea itself isn't novel and it's difficult to achieve a fresh interpretation of this idea in 2020, these aren't the reasons why I cannot recommend this game. Death and Taxes genuinely adds nothing to this already saturated space because it tries to achieve it in the most uninteresting way possible: the internal struggle of making such choices is literally the entire mechanic of the game, rather than being an underlying consideration that you may or may not have missed. instead of being thought-provoking, the moral dilemma is not much of a dilemma and just becomes routine operating procedure when you are literally the grim reaper so not only is it your one job, but the entire point of your existence. and because it's so short, it really fails t...

1 helpful
1 hrs at review
Not Recommended

I bought this game cause of its very good review. After playing, I wonder the purpose of this game and what the hell I am doing here. It's so boring and repetitive and meaningless and no technique, I start think why would such a game exists then I realise probably this is what the game is trying to show me, everything is meaningless

1 helpful 1 funny

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • 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

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
  • Processor: i3 or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

FAQ

How much does Death and Taxes cost?

Death and Taxes costs $12.99.

What are the system requirements for Death and Taxes?

Minimum: Minimum: 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 Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 Processor: i3 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 2 GB available space

What platforms is Death and Taxes available on?

Death and Taxes is available on Windows PC, macOS, Linux.

Is Death and Taxes worth buying?

Death and Taxes has 81% positive reviews from 86 players.

When was Death and Taxes released?

Death and Taxes was released on Feb 20, 2020.

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