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Death and Taxes — это игра-история в духе «Papers, Please», «Reigns», «Beholder» и «Animal Inspector». Вам предстоит стать Мрачным жнецом, одним из безликих сотрудников Загробной канцелярии (громоздкого и погрязшего в бюрократических дрязгах учреждения). Работая под началом неумолимого Рока этого мира, вы будете вершить судьбы людей. Кто достоин смерти? Кому сохранить жизнь во благо вселенского Равновесия? Выбирайте с умом, Жнец. И помните — ваши решения, отношения с начальством и стиль игры определят судьбу планеты! Спасут её… или обрекут на хаос, войны и разрушения.Вы встретите незабываемых (странноватых, а порой и вовсе безумных) персонажей потустороннего мира. Вскроете коварный план по уничтожению всего живого. Вы даже… сможете сделать карьеру и стать МЕНЕДЖЕРОМ СРЕДНЕГО ЗВЕНА (вау!). Всё в ваших костлявых руках!
Особенности Death and Taxes:
- Решения действительно на что-то влияют
- Нелинейный сюжет с секретными концовками
- Вам будут платить зарплату
- Полная озвучка персонажей (на английском)
- Приятный саундтрек (можно слушать на работе)
- Рисованная акварельная графика
- Варианты ответов в диалогах
- Куча улучшений для рабочего места (продаются в магазине)
- Twitch-интеграция для стримеров
Что можно делать в игре:
- Ходить на работу как на праздник
- Дискутировать с боссом о смысле жизни
- Покупать краденые вещички у Мортимера (кто это?)
- Украшать рабочий стол
- Перебирать бумажки, изображая кипучую деятельность
- Гладить котейку
- Болтать со своим отражением в зеркале
- Преодолевать экзистенциальный ужас
- Не преодолеть экзистенциальный ужас и всех убить
- Вершить судьбы людей
- Слушать ту самую музыку в лифте
- Приодеть Жнеца и выделиться из серой массы
Поддерживаемые языки: english, portuguese - brazil, russian, simplified chinese, traditional chinese, turkish, spanish - spain
Системные требования
Windows
- 64-разрядные процессор и операционная система
- ОС *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
- Процессор: i3 or equivalent
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
- DirectX: версии 9.0
- Место на диске: 2 GB
- 64-разрядные процессор и операционная система
- ОС *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
- Процессор: i3 or equivalent
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
- DirectX: версии 9.0
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Mac
- ОС: macOS 10.12+
- Процессор: i3 or equivalent
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
- Место на диске: 2 GB
- ОС: macOS 10.12+
- Процессор: i3 or equivalent
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Linux
- ОС: Ubuntu 16.04+ or equivalent
- Процессор: i3 or equivalent
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
- Место на диске: 2 GB
- ОС: Ubuntu 16.04+ or equivalent
- Процессор: i3 or equivalent
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Integrated graphics or GPU with atleast 512 MB of VRAM
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Отзывы пользователей
It's a fun game, but devs think that libertarianism can only bring chaos(hilarious)
I think this is one of the games that has replay value. I can see how people get bored with multiple runs to get all the achievements and I totally agree with that. However, if you read through the first run carefully, you'd find the next couple runs really fun and fast. People are comparing this to Paper, please, and I'd say don't compare, both these 2 games have very different mechanism and are good on their own.
Great character customization, some witty dialogue, and the concept is awesome!
However, this game is a slog to get through. Extremely repetitive game play loop. I struggled to finish one run at all.
Fun but can be challenging to make choises that affect the game either badly or goodly. but fun!
Its a good game. It just takes a while to pick up. The main issue is that the gameplay doesn't evolve over time. So the first 5 mins of gameplay are still the same as the last 5. The story also takes a while to pick up. A lot of stuff is hinted at but you don't know if its actually implied are you are just imagining things.
It's the type of game you want to play the newgame+ of and experience more of after knowing what just happened.
After the first few days you realise that this is all there is to the game. It gets really stale very quickly.
I can not recommend this game enough. I bought it on sale because I love undeath especially when that theme is clashed with the mundane. Ala Dead Like Me, at first I found it be a charming but short little indie. Then with each new game plus I got more and more sucked into the story. HAD to keep going to try and find the best outcome. Even though I have I know there's still more endings im missing. Each playthrough makes the game better, truley a work of art.
Death & Taxes is an interesting little game that will keep you busy for an hour or two, or more if you are willing to try and see more than one ending. It's worth a shot if it goes on sale or if you fancy yourself a completionist, but 12 bucks is a bit steep for this short an experience. In many ways, it reminds me of a flash game, simultaneously carried by its ambition and limited by its framework.
It falls squarely in that peculiar category of games that use mundane routine tasks as a frame to tell a story. However, even when the game attempts to break away from the routine or subvert it, it often remains quite predictable and the actual gameplay never really pushes itself past a simple binary choice. Two hours might not seem like a whole lot for one run, but two hours of clicking the same live/die buttons gets old fairly quickly and the game needed more spice to keep it interesting.
The writing is fairly evidently inspired by Terry Pratchett's work and the game wears this influence on its sleeve. There's a good bit of stuff that's accounted for depending on your choices. It fits nicely in the framework of literature likening the afterlife to bureaucracy and although it doesn't quite break away from that mold, it does do well with it.
Decide who gets to live and who gets to die, just that simple. Game with personality, you might get bored a bit with long lists of papers.
A simple game with lots of humour that clearly rides off the fame of "Papers, please", but isn't worse off for it. It's a game with a lot of personality, great voice-acting and cohesive world-building. It's a game where you are meant to go through a few play-thorughs to get the full experience, but it doesn't get repetitive until you've completed the main endings and are going for 100% achievements, and even then, it's still interesting to play, just getting a bit monotonous.
I like the morbid humor, and little challenges in this game. It's a lot like Papers Please, but the differences make it compelling in its own way
overall a fun game, after second run-through it gets kinda boring
Worth getting it on sale. It has a pleasant art style and sound. I did 2 runs, spent more than 5 hours.
Incredibly repetitive gameplay. Sucks to achievement hunt in because of it.
A fun indie game that shows Death as a pencil pusher. Really interesting, fun soundtrack and something you can play for 20 mins and get back to later. Grab it on sale, as it usually drops in price massively.
Not really my bag, honestly could not wait for my play-through to finish. Voice acting while excellent quality felt slow and made the experience drag. Interface was frustrating to use. If you are really patient and detail oriented and like reading go for it but not for me.
It was fun and has a FANTASTIC story! The characters and art are also AMAZING!
On the first glance it is funny game, but gameplay is boring and mundane
I had hoped this was a Papers, Please-like experience. It's not.
Game seems to lack purpose and polish across the board. You could forgive the quite lacking gameplay had the game some great art and sound design. Just as with the writing, this is unfortunately not the case.
The setting screams for some interesting world- and character building, but it's just not there.
It's possible the game picks up later on. I wouldn't know as I was bored out of my mind within the first hour.
Sadly not as good as expected. A text quest meant to be replayed for fuller experience. Like a visual novel, but you can't save at a moment to replay it several times, you can't skip texts, you have to repeat manual monotonous point and click daily routine. Things to choose and to interact with don't bring much change. So may be good if you want to get an idea of a boring work, but I came for actual funsies. And there are no taxes even!
Playable with mouse only, so can be played fine from phone + steam link, and should work fine with native touch screens too.
It's a fun little Papers, Please clone that's worth maybe a fiver if you can get it for that.
Reason i'm not recommending it is just liken Papers, Please there aren't any accessibility options.
For such a simple game that relies so heavily on reading to not have any way to change font size nor support for text-to-speech, is pretty bad. It does work with Microsoft's in-built magnifier tool (not the text-to-speech function) but that is a workaround for my specific case, not a solution. It doesn't even have a dark mode, making extended squint sessions very uncomfortable.
You play a reaper.
Your job is to kill people based on rules and quotas.
It a bit meaningless, as the story is. (Story-rich? Ha!)
As a non-English native speaker, I was a bit puzzled at first by the use of plural to speak of single individuals.
Since I didn't care about the story for very long (too obvious, too ridiculous) it didn't bother me a lot.
When all is said and done, the game isn't very interesting and is pretty short.
i fw the style, and it's a nice chill game. a great break from overwatch going against a FUCKING mauga, bap, weaver, bastion and venture.... i hate that game... so much. I much rather be the reaper
Really good, near perfection, its almost magical how truly good this game is, but it lacks a few things that could've made it better. SPOILERS (Play this game if you're reading this and you're considering it, it's really good!) ->
I wanted to 100% this game, but after the third run the game starts to get really tedious and the immersion is broken: The first run feels like an interactive story, the next runs just feel more and more like any other game, not because of the story or anything, its very well made and the characters are very endearing, but the gameplay loses its magic and you're no longer thinking about moral dilemmas but instead just calculating numbers, i get it, it makes sense because of the corporate theme of the game, i did not miss the point, but if you're trying to be moral and save the humans it feels very wrong, and very very tedious as i said before, that is the main gripe. The gameplay was only truly fun and engaging on the first run because of the stakes and because everything was new. I could be wrong and these are just my thoughts, but I personally think the newgame+ runs should be easier, shorter or both, they should also have more diversity with gameplay mechanics in my opinion, just to keep it fun and engaging so players don't get burnt out or bored before getting the endings or content they want, besides that it's a truly amazing game, really really good, devs did a great job
I like the art direction and overall vibe of this game, but unfortunately the core gameplay just isn't fun. Every day is the same. Read some profiles, decide who lives or dies, follow the rules (or don't). The trouble is, all the profiles are completely uninteresting, so I have no reason to care who lives or dies. Apparently my actions have consequences, but the game doesn't do a good job communicating those consequences to me, just an unhelpful headline: such and such person dies. I can't find any coherent story to keep me interested. Is this whole experience supposed to be a metaphor for the boredom and meaninglessness of life? I'd rather play games that help me escape from such feelings.
It's not the best game in the world but it's fun and worth at least 2 play throughs which is about 4 hours
like papers please if you took out everything that made it good
I feel like the music really makes this game. Coupled with the art style and flow of the game, you get a smooth adventure that feels pleasant to experience. The story makes you wonder what will happen next, like a good book.
Scenario and dialogs are total failure. I urge you to finish it fast and refund, because most of the things doesn't affect anything at all
Programmers and voice actors did a good job though
I was expecting a game about Taxes not the grim reaper. How am I supposed to learn how to avoid paying taxes now?
kinda confusing, but once you get the hang of it its fun
Wouldn't recommend at all, got it really cheap but still not worth it.
Really enjoyed this game, I liked the story and the avenues you could take, but I also just liked the monotony of being a grim reaper (like having a 9 to 5 job but I get to be judge-y for pay).
Workin’ 9-5, even in death.
You’ve assumed the role of the Grim Reaper - unfortunately, you are not unique and this is an office job. Your main responsibility is to decide the people who live and the people who are going to die. Don’t worry, you don’t have total free will, since there are certain quotas and criteria you’ll need to meet. However, there will be consequences, good or bad, to your decisions.
I was excited to pick this one up, but was left very disappointed. Your boss, the creator, has made a decision about the human population and the world that you may or may not agree with. It’s your decision on whether you betray him or go along with his plans. The decisions you make will earn you points in different categories. These are technically hidden stats, but I think this is what’s missing from the game. At the end of each day, I would have liked to have seen different maps of each category and how your decisions affected them - similar to the game “Plague”. I understand that there were news articles with how your decisions affected the world, but they didn’t really contribute to anything for me. I also felt that the criteria could have been a little more challenging to decipher, making the game more engaging.
I did enjoy the character customization, collecting different items, organizing the desk, and going through the files - but I found myself trying to rush through the game. I wasn’t engaged in the story and hiding the stats that you are actually working toward until the end of the game didn’t feel rewarding. I know there are different endings, but I will not be replaying to discover them.
There is something here in terms of an overall game, but it felt lacking for me. I know this is a game that is on sale often, so if you still want to experience it for yourself, I would wait for one of those sales.
Become The Grim Reaper and Decide the Fate of humanity
Fun game with good characters and a great narrative
Multiple different endings and secrets to find
Great artstyle, voice acting and music
Totally recommend for a casual fun time
I like ice-cream
This game has been one of my favorites for a while. I love how unique it is, with aspects I hadn't really seen before. I love the different paths you can take, which not only affect you but everyone around you as well.
Fun absurdist humor. You'll quickly realize that the choices given are not straight forward, you could easily worsen the world accidentally!
Great game! Fun, things to purchase, drinks, lots of characters, stories, fun gameplay, not too hard to finish the game surprise endings. 10/10
You can relax by matching the characters you need to kill as people you don't like. Hehe. No but for real fantastic, beautiful and smart game. Thought-provoking.
A decidedly enjoyable game about deadly bureaucracy with some unexpected twists, expected turns, and rather high replayability. Absolutely do recommend.
At first I thought I would get bored to death (pun intended), but it actually was really interesting from the begining to the end to the end+.
Fun, tragic, smart, but with lots of self-derision, it tastes like cringey emo teenagers reading NIetzsche meeting irresponsible mid-life crisis dads. Love it !
Awesome and chill game. Many funny moments but also a lot of pressure :D
Honestly a really good game but only really good for one or two replays
I'll be honest I Found this game rather boring and patronising.
While i enjoyed the concept of the game it desperately needs accessibility settings, fonts are not easily readable and are very small, need options to change them to easily readble and increase size.
Similarly some of the items don't seem to add any information and seem pointless. Having dialogue skip would be advantageous. Not sure what the bar patrons are supposed to add to the game or why they can only be spoken to once.
I would like to see these improvements and some sort of stat tracker for replayability.
Boring and repetitive. Gameplay doesnt offer much of a challenge and overall pretty underwhelming.
great story and artstyle! the voice acting and music really add up to the atmosphere
Voice acting is very annoying and keeps playing even when you exit dialogue trees.
It feels like none of the mechanics make any difference to the gameplay (e.g. the phone, the bar, choosing live/die).
Great game, but too short.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Placeholder Gameworks |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 87% положительных (3323) |