- Death and Taxes on the Daily Deal + CraftCraft Bundle! - 19 January 2026
Good tidings to you, Reapers!Happy to say that we are at a historic low price for Death and Taxes now! If you want to get some reaping done (hard work), then now is a great time to do so ^_^Additionally, if you haven't seen it yet, do give a peek at CraftCraft, our latest released game, which is also at a historic low price currently. And furthermore, if you do already own Death and Taxes (or CraftCraft) we do have a bundle where the two games are together, so if you own one of them the other one will be even cheaper!We also had a huge update to CraftCraft recently, doubling the amount of quests in the game with a lot of quality of life and stability fixes, too!Do keep an eye out for an update for Death and Taxes sometime this year hopefully as well ^_^What it may be, well, it's a bit of a secret.Much love,-Death and Taxes
- Death and Taxes at the Steam Summer Sale (and More ^^') - 27 June 2025
Good summer tidings, Grims!Oak here! Just wanted to give you a bit of an update on all things Death and Taxes.First of all, we're on the Summer Sale at a cool -85% off! If you already own Death and Taxes, do consider getting CraftCraft, especially since we have the Craft & Taxes bundle at an additional -15% off!And now for some general updates. As you may know, our latest localization project for Japanese has finished, and I hope you've had a good time with it. Some other localization efforts like French (45%), Polish (29%), German (19%), Ukrainian (16%), and Czech (14%) have been trudging along, but we can't say exactly when these versions would be done. We have seen a lot of requests for French and Ukranian versions, so as time goes by and our financial security is in a more comfortable spot, we'll see what we can do.As the entire Placeholder team has been quite busy with CraftCraft (…
- Patch Update + CraftCraft Bundle! - 9 June 2025
Hi everyone! Oak here.Here's a small little update on Death and Taxes for you!We've been polishing the Japanese translation for the game and we did notice that there were some font issues for the game popping up so I made a quick pass to make sure that all the languages fonts were rendering correctly. So, hopefully no more missing characters or strange invalid characters appearing!Meanwhile, we did release our new game, CraftCraft, and I would be truly grateful if you would check it out!We even have a bundle for it, meaning that if you already own Death and Taxes, CraftCraft will be available to you at an additional -15% discount in addition to our launch discount!Check out the bundle right HEREWhile we are still hard at work on polishing CraftCraft and adding additional content for it, rest assured Death and Taxes is not forgotten! We still have plans to add a stats screen for your dea…
- Death and Taxes - now in Japanese - at LudoNarraCon! - 1 May 2025
Greetings, Grims! Oak here with some fine news. I'm quite chuffed to announce that THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING SWIMMINGLY. We're now finally on track to release the first major update for Broken Alliance, and also getting on the final release track for CraftCraft (announcement for that soon, hopefully!) This also brings me to our beloved Death and Taxes. Meanwhile, we've been working on a lil' update, not as serious as the other ones, but important nonetheless. Death and Taxes is now available in Japanese! It might not be the update you've been hoping for (*cough*endlessmode*cough*), but it's something we have been cooking for the last 6 months or so, and are happy to share with you now ^_^ That being said, please enjoy Death and Taxes at a cool -85% off until May 5th :3 Once CraftCraft gets done though, I want to come back to Death and Taxes for a little bit and give it of extra love. Since…
- QUARTERMASTER MORTIMER IS BACK! - 20 February 2025
Hi Grims, This is a special short cross-game announcement for CraftCraft / Death and Taxes! Quartermaster Mortimer from Death and Taxes is back! And he will be your customer in our next game, CraftCraft... Here is a sneak peek of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcNWqSWiOU You can get to know him a bit more and see where your friendship leads you. :) We are happy to see our friend return and he is, like always, voiced by the gruff and warm sounding Isaak Wells! You can wishlist CraftCraft here, it will help us a lot! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/ See you soon! Leene
- Happy 5th Anniversary, Death and Taxes! - 20 February 2025
Happy Birthday to you, Grims! Creative Director Leene here and I just wanted to let you know that, today, 5 years ago, we released Death and Taxes and this calls for a moment of celebration! And to share some fun DnT stuff you might have missed plus a surprise in the end of the post.... wow, 5 years has gone quick! Let's go over the things that have happened! Well firstly, after 3 years of work, we released Death and Taxes in February 20th 2020. We did that with 0 budget, struggling team with revenue share and most people working on it part time on the side of their jobs. So completely bootstrapped and self published! If you are interested in seeing an Indie Developer documentary and want to see how our release week went and a bit behind the scenes, you can take look at this free documentary about a game dev co-living place in Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4oBSm3QJk4 After th…
- Death and Taxes Daily Deal! - 15 January 2025
Hi Grims! Oak here. Happy to see you again! We're delighted to announce that we're going deeper into the abyss with our discounts for Death and Taxes, now at a whopping -85% off! That being said, I also want to give you an update on what we have in store for y'all! We are finalizing our Japanese localization for the game, which should arrive quite soon! In fact, I had hoped that maybe we could finish it for this promotion, but alas, time ran out due to our other projects (Broken Alliance and CraftCraft) needing our attention. In addition, there are a few things I've been pondering and tinkering with, on the side. There have been many requests for an "endless" mode and a statistics screen for your deeds as a Grim Reaper. Again, time and other life events got in the way of those, and while these are still things that I would like to add to the game, they will have to wait for now. I do ho…
- Broken Alliance in Early Access and a bit of Death and Taxes News! - 15 January 2025
Hello Grims! It is almost 5 years from the initial release of Death and Taxes. We have been very busy making a new games, Broken Alliance and CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator... But we also have small updates to share for Death and Taxes! We are almost done with Japanese localization and also we are planning a small update to show more stats to the player! That will be soon, we'll let you know! And also Death and Taxes is on daily deal on a deep discount! Welcome new players if you are here for the first time! And on to the the big news, Broken Alliance is now out in Early Access today! The game is like a love letter to pixel art, old-school adventure games, mythical creatures and fantasy storytelling. So if you like that sort of stuff, check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1704180/Broken_Alliance/ Even though the game is in such a different genre than Death and Taxes,…
- SimFest Stream - 24 July 2024
Hey everyone! Oak here. I accidentally messed up the streaming settings for SimFest, but now it's live again! Have fun watching ^_^
- Death and Taxes @ SimFest... in Spanish! (Also, hats) - 24 July 2024
Hello Grims! Oak here. I love to be the bringer of good news and I'm proud to say that we have finally finished up the Spanish translation! Many, many thanks to all the people who helped get this done! Much love to: Luka Giacco María Geraldía Villar B-Retz ChrisDK Salvador Manuel Quezada Godoy Christine "Dottie" Dottle JoseB Kassiopeia Literally King Arthur (Vic) Lucia Razsher kasseto killunya Ramiro Cibrián Carrasco We finally made it. I'm so happy. I know many of you have been asking for a Spanish translation even before we released the full game, so, here it is! I hope you enjoy it. I can't stress enough how glad I am for us to have such an awesome community ^_^ On top of that, we're also participating in SimFest right here on Steam! Give the organizers (Fireshine Games, Stray Fawn, and Future Friends Games) and participants some love and be sure to check out all the cool games being…
- Hot Reaper Summer 2024 - 27 June 2024
Hello Grims! Oak here again, bringing good news and updates galore. Just recently we launched the demo for one of our new games: CraftCraft! Make sure to give it a whirl if you like... well, crafting. Additionally, we're on the final stretch of our Spanish translation effort, it's about 90% done now, and all we need to do is finish it up, proofread it, test it, and let it into the wild for y'all to play :) Once that's done I'll make a separate announcement. Also in more Death and Taxes related news, it's also coming to mobile phones (both iOS and Android hopefully). I will keep you posted about that, but it's already running on Android, and I will try to get it up on mobile storefronts as soon as possible. ALSO, as you may have noticed, Steam Summer Sale has finally started! Death and Taxes is a cozy -80% off, so it's pretty much the best time to get into the game if you haven't yet! I'…
- FREE DEMO for our new game OUT NOW! CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant SImulator - 24 June 2024
Hi Grims, Creative Director Leene here! We have been busy at work on our 2 new games and I am happy to announce that you can try the free demo of CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator now here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/ So excited for this milestone! Demo includes: *A quite varied character creation! (be a mysterious moth-person, or goth elf, or a whimsical cat-person or anything in between) *A desktop simulation like in Death and Taxes, but even more hands on! Express your creativity, make jewelry and smith in 2D Simulation! *Meet first 3 fully voice acted characters and sell jewelery and swords to them! *Death and Taxes fans might also recognize the music in CraftCraft from our awesome composer, Adam Bow. Try it out now and optionally tell us what you think. Looking forward to seeing some characters/jewelery you come up with too…
- Women-Led Games feat. Death and Taxes! - 7 June 2024
Hello Grims! Oak here. Since Leene was busy with CraftCraft, I took it upon myself to stream a bit of Death and Taxes for y'all! Tune in if you want to see a bit of behind-the-scenes stuff, and if you want to get some smol announcements as well ^_^ Stay Grim! Much love, -Death and Taxes
- Death and Taxes on XBox and PlayStation! - 7 April 2024
Hi Grims! Oak here. Excuse my terrible puns, but I have an announcement to make! Death and Taxes is available now on XBox and will be released on the 18th of April on PlayStation! If you have not taken the *grim* plunge yet, now is the time! Additionally, we are available also on the Nintendo Switch! If you've been waiting to enjoy Death and Taxes on consoles, this is the moment to do so! ^_^ That's it for now (yes we are still hard at work on the Spanish translation, it's getting there!). Much love, -Death and Taxes
- Death and Hatses - 9 March 2024
Hello Grims! 'tis the season again! Death and Taxes turned FOUR years old! Unfathomably cool to think about. As has been tradition, we try do take care of our first game, which means that occasionally we get the urge to just... put more content in the game. And we did. Again. We added hats into the game. I repeat: you can now wear *hats*. Also, we're a historic -80% off for 2 weeks to celebrate the occasion (big thanks to Valve for giving a helping hand in organizing this!) We had a whole bunch of ideas for accessorizing one's Grim Reaper, and it always felt that hats would be such a natural addition to everything. After having added them to the game, it really feels like they totally have belonged there from the start! You have 15 hats to choose from, out of 3 types and 5 variations for each. So uhh, yes! Try them! It'll be neat, I promise. Also, the Spanish translation is also coming…
- Death and Taxes -- Lunar New Year Sale - 7 February 2024
Hello everyone！ Death and Taxes is now participating in the Lunar New Year Festival 2024. Hope you like our game!
- Storyteller's Festival feat. Death and Taxes - 29 January 2024
Hello Grims! Oak here again! Long time no see ^_^ I'm happy and extremely proud to announce that Death and Taxes was selected to be a part of the Storyteller's Festival! If you are interested in narrative-driven games, this is your one stop shop to satisfy all those needs. Many thanks to Two and a Half Studios for hosting us! ADDITIONALLY! If you've got this far (I hope!) I'm also pleased to tease that there will be a teeny tiny little update coming for Death and Taxes soon. Something to do with the Grim Reaper's attire, perhaps? >_> More to come on that soonish, as we approach the FOURTH (holy heck) anniversary of Death and Taxes. Thank you everyone for sticking around so long X_X And last but not least, we are still underway with localizing the game into Spanish, so stay tuned for that! I will share more news about this as it comes by. Much love! -Death and Taxes
- Death and Taxes: Autumn Sale - 21 November 2023
Hi Grims, Please enjoy the Autumn Sale! Hurry amd get Death and Taxes at 70% off to start your reaping life!
- One Year of CraftCraft! - 30 October 2023
It's been about a year since we started work on CraftCraft, a Fantasy Merchant Simulator where you use your wits as a blacksmith to fight for the creative future of a town. To be honest, it's been an adventure. From interesting bugs to changes in look and style and adding new faces to the team . One of the most beautiful things about Game Development is that it's not a race, it's a journey. And we are so glad to share this journey with so, so many wonderful people. If you want to be the first person to know when the demo comes out, go ahead and wishlist CraftCraft on steam. Or, if you just want to see our progress, feel free to follow us here! Additionally, since it's the three-year anniversary of the Death and Taxes Halloween update, we'd like to take this moment to wish you all a Happy Halloween! If you haven't had the chance to play it through yet, we highly recommend you check it ou…
- One Year of CraftCraft! - 30 October 2023
It's been about a year since we started work on CraftCraft, a Fantasy Merchant Simulator where you use your wits as a blacksmith to fight for the creative future of a town. To be honest, it's been an adventure. From interesting bugs to changes in look and style and adding new faces to the team . One of the most beautiful things about Game Development is that it's not a race, it's a journey. And we are so glad to share this journey with so, so many wonderful people. If you want to be the first person to know when the demo comes out, go ahead and wishlist CraftCraft on steam. Or, if you just want to see our progress, feel free to follow us here! Additionally, since it's the three-year anniversary of the Halloween update, we'd like to take this moment to wish you all a Happy Halloween! If you haven't had the chance to play it through yet, we highly recommend you check it out. Our Creative…
