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A Date with Death

Two and a Half Studios · 2023-12-07

Steam

IndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

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.

A Date with Death is an Indie, Simulation, Free To Play game released in 2023, priced as free-to-play, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (98% of 14846 reviews) sentiment.

116
playing now
98%
positive of 15k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

116 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 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
  • · 116 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 2% of 49,583 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

238842026-09-15 12:00 — 129 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 147 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 127 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 103 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 197 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 180 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 84 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 124 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 121 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 125 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 133 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 157 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 96 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 155 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 195 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 149 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 145 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 176 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 149 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 175 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 187 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 158 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 116 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
69596Dec 2023Aug 2026Dec 2023 — avg 695 · peak 2,866Jan 2024 — avg 334 · peak 588Feb 2024 — avg 182 · peak 316Mar 2024 — avg 140 · peak 232Apr 2024 — avg 156 · peak 305May 2024 — avg 131 · peak 226Jun 2024 — avg 145 · peak 237Jul 2024 — avg 125 · peak 185Aug 2024 — avg 108 · peak 171Sep 2024 — avg 102 · peak 172Oct 2024 — avg 96 · peak 175Nov 2024 — avg 113 · peak 193Dec 2024 — avg 379 · peak 2,046Jan 2025 — avg 279 · peak 518Feb 2025 — avg 261 · peak 421Mar 2025 — avg 268 · peak 487Apr 2025 — avg 205 · peak 329May 2025 — avg 179 · peak 293Jun 2025 — avg 191 · peak 300Jul 2025 — avg 196 · peak 295Aug 2025 — avg 156 · peak 236Sep 2025 — avg 136 · peak 211Oct 2025 — avg 141 · peak 228Nov 2025 — avg 146 · peak 234Dec 2025 — avg 179 · peak 315Jan 2026 — avg 177 · peak 286Feb 2026 — avg 163 · peak 266Mar 2026 — avg 146 · peak 236Apr 2026 — avg 243 · peak 750May 2026 — avg 253 · peak 411Jun 2026 — avg 217 · peak 320Jul 2026 — avg 195 · peak 274Aug 2026 — avg 171 · peak 242
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2023-12-07, latest 2024-12-09 (Steam store data)

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

AnimeFunnyOtomeLGBTQ+RomanceDating SimStory RichText-BasedFree to PlaySupernatural

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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