Who are we?

Placeholder Gameworks OÜ is a small Estonia-based indie game company that makes serious games.

What make us stand out?

“We make neat lil’ games where the story is central to gameplay and your choices matter.”

We believe in video games as a great storytelling device and try to push our projects in directions that haven’t been fully explored by the industry. Our first bigger project, Death and Taxes, was released on 2020 February and we are currently working on a game called Broken Alliance.

Company size

4+ employees

Death and Taxes

Genres

Indie,2d

Release date

20 February,2020

Steam link

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166290/Death_and_Taxes/?curator_clanid=42606850

About the game

In this small Indie, short narrative-based game, you take the role of the Grim Reaper… on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. Your choices will affect the world around you. Keep the chaos away or foil plots to destroy the world and rise through the ranks of Reapers all the way up to MIDDLE-MANAGEMENT, wow!

Death and Taxes is a game in the vein of narrative-based indie titles, such as “Papers, Please”, “Reigns”, “Beholder” and “Animal Inspector”, to name a few. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

• Have a.. totally normal.. office job
• Talk to your boss
• Get monies
• Buy stuff from Mortimer’s Plunder Emporium(?)
• Decorate your desk
• Do some paperwork
• Pet the cat??
• Stare in the mirror and talk to yourself
• Don’t let the existential dread set in
• DONT LET IT SET IN (ONLY THE FATE OF HUMANKIND IS IN YOUR HANDS, IT’S 100% OK)
• Listen to that one really catchy tune in the elevator

Features:

• Meaningful choices
• Branching storyline with multiple [SECRET] endings
• Make-Your-Own-Grim-Reaper!
• Fully voiced NPCs
• Original Soundtrack
• Original artwork featuring watercolour graphics
• Dialogue options
• Upgrade shop
• Twitch integration!

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper… on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Broken Allience

Genres

Strategy,Rpg

Release date

Q4,2024

Steam link

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1704180/Broken_Alliance/?curator_clanid=42606850

About the game

Broken Alliance is an indie turn-based adventure strategy game with strong RPG elements, inspired by old school classics such as Heroes of Might and Magic, Age of Wonders, Master of Magic and Disciples… with a twist. Broken Alliance features a card combat system that allows each faction for unique gameplay.
Choose your faction, expand your kingdom, build up your army, train your Heroes and make or break alliances to save your people from a collapsing world. Build up your deck from your Champions and Artefacts you find during your adventures!

• Go forth into battle! Capture, raid or visit epic locations, subdue or convince other factions to join your cause or die trying.
• Solve ancient puzzles, collect magical plants, and unearth mighty artifacts to help you on your quests.

• Earn the loyalty of your Heroes, guiding them down their own personal quests to bring them to the apex of their potential, or have them make the ultimate sacrifice to have a chance at salvation.
• Rally the various peoples of the world, enlisting them to your cause by forging alliances to serve in your armies as your Units, but at a cost. Earn their trust to upgrade them to be even more formidable!
• Gather resources and refine them into Mana to cast extraordinary Spells that may decimate entire battlefields or landscapes, permanently scarring the environment or focus on the restoration of the land, earning the favour and boons of the Earth Mother for your kingdom.
• Unlock the secrets of your ancestors, discover the motivations of your Heroes and meet a

Play as one of 4 distinct factions, harnessing the vast power of magic to save your dying world. The way you play determines the sacrifices and consequences you have to endure, shaping your personal storyline.