# Death and Taxes Summer DB entity ID: 294b81f3\-9122\-447f\-bee1\-f6ae9ee43363 Steam App ID: 1166290 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\! ## Game information - Type: game - Developer: Placeholder Gameworks - Publisher: Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games - Release date: Feb 20, 2020 - Coming soon: false - Free to play: false - Parent Steam app: Not collected - Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy - Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Family Sharing - Platforms: windows, mac, linux - Website: Not collected - Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_0ec1aad19f8f3bd4a66bc6de3c07cb50e8dcbfbc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_1aa0e49c43ea837caa84e80e7f31d246de64fa3e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_9948ae31eb0926dfe1004e1224de6ba4bda727f6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_a5ac4083874bd3e31a39632b387f64d8c39ecfb1\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_2cc3339bf8073f3f10805f271c34d6dd3f12c3db\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_7998794ddc3d52f29935a445730452125762442a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_30f5ff350e1e448a6ff0563ec8d071cf090a98b5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_e90eaa355b4dcb4f7e3380457abe503a332a0932\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_67907c2ca852f69f58405e5c34c721707500ca8b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1166290/ss\_658b48997c6e9fd7cda01049b044854c3e78d49c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1776015823 - Price: 1299 minor units USD; discount 0% - Price country: US ## Observed metrics - Current players: 17 - Steam review count: 8572 - Steam positive reviews: 7356 - Steam negative reviews: 1216 - Steam positive percentage: 85.81427904806347% - Summer DB rating: No native votes Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\} ## Player history [Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/294b81f3-9122-447f-bee1-f6ae9ee43363/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/294b81f3-9122-447f-bee1-f6ae9ee43363/player-metrics?days=7) Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown. ## Sources and freshness - Catalog membership: store\_catalog - Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00 - Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T12:55:00\.525683\+00:00 - Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T12:55:03\.860374\+00:00 - Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T12:55:03\.54968\+00:00 Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/1166290/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/1166290/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=1166290","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/1166290"\},"price":"2026\-09\-24T12:55:00\.525683\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-24T12:55:00\.525683\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-24T12:55:03\.860374\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-24T12:55:03\.54968\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"24313954\-f9cf\-45e0\-badf\-51a5d0df2e94","catalog":"0496e50e\-7eb0\-4955\-a201\-2d64885e3477","details":"765e46b5\-ea04\-443a\-b27e\-a7b94a04e045","players":"dc3ff391\-bee2\-46b2\-b731\-e6d34c82fa93","reviews":"9d9c8772\-72e8\-4524\-ad13\-dd4570ebcf5b"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\} Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"294b81f3\-9122\-447f\-bee1\-f6ae9ee43363","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\} Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted. [Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166290/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/294b81f3-9122-447f-bee1-f6ae9ee43363)