Death and Taxes overview

Overview

Death and Taxes comes from Placeholder Gameworks and is published by Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games. It arrived on Steam on Feb 20, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Death and Taxes's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 43 players at 3 October 2026 - 17:49:07 UTC, with a tracked peak near 780. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 86% positive across 8,235 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Death and Taxes is available in 8 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Death and Taxes has sold up to 257,000 units and has 7,873 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,800,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Death and Taxes overview details

Death and Taxes combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Wishlist our other games! 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!

SteamPulse editorial summary

Death and Taxes is listed as a game with $12.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 43 players at 3 October 2026 - 17:49:07 UTC, a tracked peak of 780, and 86% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Choices MatterStory RichSimulationPoint & ClickMultiple EndingsStrategyChoose Your Own AdventurePuzzleReplay ValueCasualInteractive FictionDark ComedyNarrativeAdventureIndie

Content descriptors

The game talks about difficult topics in philosophically and helps people deal with topics around death. Mentions of death, suicide in written text.

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Support and legal notes

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