Death Tales

About

You play as a Reaper who ditched her job after a bad breakup. Guide her through a 2D world filled with enemies, quests, and tough decisions. Battle hordes with melee attacks and magic, upgrade gear, and team up locally with a friend in co-op mode. The combat mixes platforming and beat-'em-up action, letting you chain moves and experiment with abilities. Dialogue and choices shape interactions with oddball characters, though the story unfolds more through gameplay than lengthy cutscenes. The game balances gory action with dark humor, pairing brutal combat with quirky NPCs. Its art style contrasts moody environments with colorful character designs. While the story leans into tragic themes, the tone avoids being overly serious, think sword fights and spellcasting with a sideways grin. Available on multiple platforms including Switch and PS5, it’s a midlength adventure that prioritizes fast-paced gameplay over deep roleplaying. Player reviews highlight the co-op mode as a standout feature, though some note the lack of online multiplayer.

Storyline

"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 and hid herself away from everything and everyone. Discovering her failure to cull the human souls, her sisters captured her and grafted a sentient exoskeleton construct onto her body. With its power, her sisters enslaved her and forced her to return to her work. Death reluctantly accepted her cursed fate and set out to make sure she would never make the same mistake again. Using all of her power and will, she began to create a massive army of Reapers to do her bidding. With her gift of power also came great loss. She took the reapers memories from them and bound them in mortal bodies, so none could ever leave her side. Now she has become a cold and bitter husk of her former self, eternally a slave to her dark task."