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Death and Taxes
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A short 2D narrative game about being the Grim Reaper in an office job, making life-or-death choices with consequences; chill but repetitive.

Peace, Death!
A compact pixel-art arcade simulator about playing the Reaper and sorting souls, with dark humor and escalating difficulty in a ~6-8 hour single-player campaign.
2017-03-24
- Comedy
- Indie
- Side view
- Simulator
- Arcade

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Thank You For Your Application

A compact, story-driven interview simulation about screening resumes and sending thank-you letters in a bleak corporate world, with engaging paperwork gameplay but a story that reviewers find lacking in humanity.

2026-06-19

Science fiction
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Speed Dating for Ghosts

A roughly six-hour afterlife dating sim with branching dialogue, ghostly love interests, and a sweet-spooky tone.

2018-02-13

Comedy
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Romance
Visual Novel

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PEPPERED: an existential platformer

A single-player existential platformer with dry humor, many choices, and a tight ~8-hour narrative about saving the world or serving the God of Death.

2025-04-07

Action
Comedy
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Trainee Death Simulator

A lighthearted choice-driven sim about a trainee Death harvesting souls to pay an endless debt, with cute visuals and a roughly 10-hour story.

2024-11-12

Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Peace, Death! 2

A darkly humorous single-player turn-based logic game about sorting souls in 2D pixel art, offering a relaxed pace and meaningful choices.

2021-10-07

Comedy
Puzzle
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Arcade
Point-and-click

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Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination

A darkly satirical interactive fiction RPG about corporate conspiracies and horrors, with a tight ~4-hour narrative shaped by reader choices.

2025-04-16

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Office Hours

A short, dark simulation of office paperwork at a mysterious pharma company, where brief desk chats gradually reveal hidden secrets.

2026-04-22

First person
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Point-and-click

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DEAD LETTER DEPT.

A short (~3–4 hour) atmospheric horror game about transcribing lost mail, where typing busywork gives way to creeping oddities and a Silent Hill–inspired mystery.

2025-01-30

First person
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text

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Papers, Please

A grim single-player dystopian document-inspection sim with moral dilemmas and family-management stakes; reviewer playtimes center around 8–11 hours.

2013-08-08

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Indie
Simulator
Text
Point-and-click

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The State of Nowhere

A dystopian bureaucratic simulation about serving products and enforcing state rules, with tense rule-checking and multiple endings.

2026-03-11

Indie
Simulator

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Employee 925

A darkly funny and unsettling psychological horror about workplace compliance and identity loss, playable in about an hour with branching endings.

2025-09-25

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Drama