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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 endings. . Make-Your-Own-Grim-Reaper! . . Fully
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I'm really only writing this in reaction to the current (negative) top review
I'm really only writing this in reaction to the current (negative) top review. I got the Utopia ending on my first playthrough, so I genuinely don't understand the complaints about keeping parameters balanced (I ignored them almost entirely!) or decisions not mattering. Just read the descriptions and you'll be fine.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.5
- Story4.5
- Value3.5
One of my best buys this year
This game, along with Papers, Please, taught me something deeply profound and depressing about myself: I love games about paperwork. Death and Taxes lacks the overbearing urgency and deep depression of Papers, Please, however; while the decisions you make are far more overt in that rather than permitting or denying someone a chance at survival you are deciding outright whether they live or die, you are allowed to do so at your own pace, and your potential victims are not standing before your desk, begging you to consider their families. In fact, you can delay your decision as long as you please, playing with the widgets you can buy for your desk. Listen to the radio while you incessantly spin a fidget spinner. Nobody cares. Time means nothing here. The humor is quiet, but solid. The music is charming, but mostly subtle. The replay value is there, at least for me. I intend to do my best to complete the full list of achievements--which isn't something I normally do--because Death and Taxes has completely charmed me.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.0
- Value4.0
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