Death and Taxes (video game)

Death and Taxes
Developer(s)Placeholder Gameworks
Publisher(s)Placeholder Gameworks
EngineUnity
Platform(s)
Release
  • February 20, 2020
  • September 10, 2020 (Nintendo Switch)
Genre(s)Puzzle, simulation
Mode(s)Single-player

Death and Taxes is a simulation video game by Leene Künnap, an Estonian indie game developer, and published through their company, Placeholder Gameworks, on February 20, 2020. The game has the player take the role of a Grim Reaper, who must bureaucratically decide the fates of humans, specifically whether they will live or die. The game shares its ideology with the death-positive movement.[1] On March 18, 2020, Placeholder Gameworks uploaded the game code under the MIT License on GitHub.[2]

  1. ^ Paprocki, Matt (2020-03-09). "'Death And Taxes' Puts The Grim Reaper In A Cubicle". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  2. ^ Dawe, Liam (19 March 2020). "Death and Taxes goes open source after selling 'pretty well' to help others". GamingOnLinux. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.