- 64/100
- Metacritic5 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 41/100
- Player reviews
- 77% positive177 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$5.59
Where to get it
2025 · Terrible Toybox · Beat 'em up · Adventure
Death by Scrolling
Welcome to Purgatory, now under new management! Death by Scrolling is a rogue-like vertically scrolling RPG where you kill enemies, collect gold, and avoid the Grim Reaper long enough to pay the Ferrymanʼs exorbitant river-crossing fee to the afterlife.
- Released
- 28 October 2025
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 5WindowsXbox Series X/SmacOS
- Genres
- Beat 'em upAdventure
- Developers
- Terrible Toybox
- Publishers
- MicroProse
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- Action
- Age ratings
- PEGI 7ESRB T
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Features
- Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievements
- Time to beat
- 0.5hmain story2hcompletionist
Players say
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