Death and Taxes
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$12.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9485% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 8,632
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 74% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.94 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3h
- To 100%
- 17.5h 5.8x the story
- Finish
- 20% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.68 January 2026
- Sale every
- 31d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Recent reviews
- 74% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
97% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 80 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2 ($6.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 11).
More about Death and Taxes
Steam's global achievement data puts about 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 74 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 1,172 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 5.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 13 and Nov 26, at about $1.68 (87% off). Predictions like this were right 78% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 42 days apart.
Last discount ended 20 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Halfway through the game I could not muster the energy to continue caring about what happened next. I guess it's nice to know that a majority of other players that finished probably felt the same considering 82% evidently all got the same ending. If you don't mind "Millenial Writing" and can overlook some of the real-world political biases in the game, then maybe you'll have an alright of enough time playing this.
1 more review, not recommended
This game gets boring very fast, I've tried getting into it twice over the years and only got around 2 hours in both times. I saw a lot of people comparing it to Papers, Please but, unlike that game, Death and Taxes doesn't get any harder. The instructions don't get more complex and, in the 2 hours I played, a significant portion of the days had the instructions "kill everyone whose profile is at X position". This...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Death and Taxes scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1166290/death-and-taxesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.