Genre SimulationReleased Feb 20, 2020
Death and Taxes
Developed by Placeholder Gameworks · Published by Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games
-87%
View on Steam$1.68
$12.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$1.01M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$706.6K
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
148.7K
≈ 17 sales per review
Reviews
8,612
Very Positive86% positive
Playing now
34
14-day peak 56 · low 20
New reviews, last 14 days
+24
≈ 2 a day since Oct 4
History
Oct 4 – Oct 18
8.6K8.6K8.6K8.6K
Oct 4Oct 11Oct 18
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Simulation →Against the 120 most-reviewed Simulation games on Steam
Outearns 17% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$21.32M
120,475 reviews
Top 10% start at
$116.57M
This game
$1.01M
Fewest reviews of the group
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
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!
- Developer
- Placeholder Gameworks
- Publisher
- Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games
- Genre
- Simulation
- Released
- Feb 20, 2020
- Steam app ID
- 1166290
- Data updated
- Oct 18, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.