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A Date with Death

Two and a Half Studios · 2023-12-07

Steam

IndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 07, 2023 (Linux), Dec 07, 2023 (Mac), Dec 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

229
playing now
98%
positive of 15k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
3h
to beat · completionist 8h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

229 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

A Date with Death is a 2023 freeware visual novel developed and published by Two and a Half Studios. It is built using the Ren'Py engine and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 229 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,701 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~338/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 18,161 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.7k2.7k20232026Week of 2023-12-01: 2,678 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,112 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 561 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 448 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 395 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 427 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 435 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 828 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 513 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 501 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 531 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 299 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 372 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 331 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2351242026-08-06 22:00 — 203 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 161 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 168 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 202 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 150 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 170 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 231 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 191 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 176 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 194 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 161 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 173 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 195 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 161 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 208 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 169 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 150 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 172 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 229 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 165 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 138 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 173 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 182 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 124 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 178 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 212 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 126 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 184 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 235 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 229 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

101272026-05-30 — 56 pageviews2026-06-02 — 73 pageviews2026-06-05 — 92 pageviews2026-06-08 — 101 pageviews2026-06-11 — 40 pageviews2026-06-14 — 38 pageviews2026-06-17 — 43 pageviews2026-06-20 — 40 pageviews2026-06-23 — 39 pageviews2026-06-26 — 51 pageviews2026-06-29 — 56 pageviews2026-07-02 — 42 pageviews2026-07-05 — 44 pageviews2026-07-08 — 56 pageviews2026-07-11 — 44 pageviews2026-07-14 — 39 pageviews2026-07-17 — 51 pageviews2026-07-20 — 43 pageviews2026-07-23 — 52 pageviews2026-07-26 — 39 pageviews2026-07-29 — 54 pageviews2026-08-01 — 37 pageviews2026-08-04 — 40 pageviews2026-08-07 — 33 pageviews2026-08-10 — 51 pageviews2026-08-13 — 39 pageviews2026-08-16 — 44 pageviews2026-08-19 — 34 pageviews2026-08-22 — 31 pageviews2026-08-25 — 42 pageviews2026-08-27 — 30 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

4502026-08-28 03:34 — 45 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 11 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 19 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 15 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 3 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
91%
earned "First Chance at Death"
46.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing4 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,76217%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

AnimeFunnyOtomeLGBTQ+RomanceDating SimStory RichText-BasedFree to PlaySupernatural

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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