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Death by Scrolling

Terrible Toybox NZ · MicroProse Software · 2025-10-28

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Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 28, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 28, 2025 (Linux), Oct 28, 2025 (Mac), Apr 16, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Apr 16, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 16, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

Welcome to Purgatory, inc. now under new management! Death by Scrolling is an action game where you kill enemies, collect gold, and avoid the Reaper long enough to pay the Ferrymanʼs exorbitant river-crossing fee to the afterlife.

77%
positive of 191 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (70 reviews).
  • · Top 57% of 11,582 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.8k–8.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 191 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
494920252026Week of 2025-10-28: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese

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