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Placeholder Gameworks · 2020 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 86 % positive of 7,028 reviews, as of Oct 18

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!

24 games that play like Death and Taxes and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: A Date with Death, Trainee Death Simulator and Not For Broadcast.

Player tags

  • Choices Matter
  • Story Rich
  • Simulation
  • Point & Click
  • Multiple Endings
  • Strategy
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Puzzle
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Plays and looks like Death and Taxes

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Death and Taxes

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

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  1. Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)40 % positive of 187Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Point & Click
  2. Death of the Reprobate96 % positive of 511Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Point & Click
  3. Have a Nice Death86 % positive of 9,939Shared: Indie · 2D · Singleplayer
  4. Reventure94 % positive of 9,224Shared: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure
  5. The Test: Hypothesis Rising97 % positive of 5,893Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Simulation
  6. PEPPERED: an existential platformer95 % positive of 372Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Multiple Endings
  7. Yog-Sothoth’s Yard94 % positive of 11,705Shared: Story Rich · Simulation · Multiple Endings
  8. Beholder 287 % positive of 7,143Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Simulation
  9. Storyteller87 % positive of 7,411Shared: Choices Matter · Point & Click · Multiple Endings
  10. Heavy Rain84 % positive of 19,707Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Multiple Endings
  11. House Party86 % positive of 14,988Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Simulation
  12. Choice of the Deathless91 % positive of 327Shared: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction

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Looks like Death and Taxes

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

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  1. PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse94 % positive of 2,754
  2. PRICE94 % positive of 5,094
  3. Living Cell96 % positive of 200
  4. Last Light83 % positive of 186
  5. Interrogation: You will be deceived79 % positive of 344
  6. Pandemic Love93 % positive of 234
  7. The Incident at Galley House93 % positive of 4,784
  8. Whateverland88 % positive of 159
  9. PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo95 % positive of 5,190
  10. Staffer Reborn96 % positive of 703
  11. Tangle Tower95 % positive of 5,243
  12. My Lovely Daughter69 % positive of 1,261

At a glance

What games like Death and Taxes have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Death and Taxes: Choices Matter (19 of 24), Story Rich (16) and Simulation (12).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 13 of them after Death and Taxes (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- (98 % positive of 2,586).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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