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Death Tales

Arcade Distillery · 2020-10-01

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jan 06, 2021 (PlayStation Vita), Oct 01, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 03, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 23, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Feb 23, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

Play as a new reaper, completing quests, collecting spells, and gathering equipment to fight through hordes of enemies in this grim but whimsical 2D adventure!

0
playing now
73%
positive of 51 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 14:00 UTC (census sample)

"For as long as she can remember, Death has worked tirelessly to take the lives and souls of humans. Constantly ending the lives of innocents and corrupt alike began to take its toll on her and she soon grew lonely and depressed. Eventually, she fell in love with a mortal man. After much debate with her sisters, she chose to disobey them and granted her lover immortality and in doing so, created the first Reaper. His newfound immortality and thirst for power corrupted him to the core and he soon left her. Death, heartbroken, was too devastated to continue her task. She withdrew from the world(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 78% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.0k–2.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2026-01-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.892020-10-012026-03-262020-10-01 — best price $5.992020-10-08 — best price $9.992020-10-23 — best price $4.992020-11-03 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $5.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $4.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-03-22 — best price $4.992021-03-29 — best price $9.992026-01-03 — best price $0.892026-01-10 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGCo-opIndieActionColorfulNarrationAction RPGPlatformerLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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