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 if you would like to share!
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!
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
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 along nicely. Hopefully we will have more news about this quite soon ^_^
In addition, we're also joining a bundle with the games Orwell and CorpoNation, the Difficult Decisions Bundle!
Thank you everyone for your continued support! It's always a delight to see new players discover our lil' game. And if there's something that goes awry with the update, please let me know so I can start fixing it immediately >_>
But in any case, as soon as you get the mirror, you should be able to equip hats!
Also, don't forget that we're working on 2 new games! CraftCraft and Broken Alliance! Do wishlist them if they pique your ineterest ^_^
Death and Taxes -- Lunar New Year Sale
Hello everyone！
Death and Taxes is now participating in the Lunar New Year Sale 2024. Hope you can enjoy our game!
Storyteller's Festival feat. Death and Taxes
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
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!
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 out. Our Creative Director, Leene Künnap, will be playing the game **tomorrow** at 7pm EEST, or 1pm EST at https://www.twitch.tv/spelkollektivet !
To all fans of our previous game, Death and Taxes, and those excited for our next games: Thank you so much for all your support, from all of us here at Placeholder Gameworks. We can't wait to show you what else we have in store.
One Year of CraftCraft!
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 [Cut playthrough in] to changes in look and style [Composition of concept sketches, timelapses, etc] and adding new faces to the team [Chaotic conversation, maybe a meeting?]. 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 Director, Leene Künnap, will be playing the game **tomorrow** at 7pm EEST, or 1pm EST at https://www.twitch.tv/spelkollektivet !
To all fans of our previous game, Death and Taxes, and those excited for our next games: Thank you so much for all your support, from all of us here at Placeholder Gameworks. We can't wait to show you what else we have in store.
Hot Reaper Summer, Translations, Milestones (hi Visual Novel Fest)
Hello Grims!
I have a few cool updates for you (and a special hello to all our visitors from the Visual Novel Fest)!
First of all, we finally hit 300 000 copies sold on Steam! This is quite the milestone for us, especially considering that the game has been out for nearly THREE AND A HALF YEARS (unholy macaroni that's a lot).
We're still amazed at how the game is making rounds into new and more varied communities, which gives us a lot of hope for our other games as well (please wishlist Broken Alliance, CraftCraft and Artist Life Simulator) >_>
That being said, I want to extend our thanks from the entire team at Placeholder, because we couldn't be making games if it weren't for you. Thanks for being around ^_^
In other news, translation efforts are going well for Death and Taxes! We have reached 41% in French, over 80% in European Spanish and 22% in Latin American Spanish, and a recent addition, Ukranian, is plowing in strong at 11% done. A big, heartfelt thank you to all our translators!
Oh, and one last thing... we had a fanart contest in our Discord server, and here are the submissions!
Tadopole - Dead End
Urzula - Postcard
Sam - Atro on a Swing
Ladyybugg3039 - Suns Out Buns Out
Nerdy McFarland - Jack O Lantern Attack
Lienpixels - Horned Reaper on Beach
Mich - Away on Vacation
Stay tuned, because we will announce the winners soon! But until then, let us know which of these picture *you* like the most!
And that was it for this time! I hope you enjoyed this small update ^_^
