Everyday office life in the afterlife is gray.

He doesn't want to end either.

And if only it weren't for the paperwork!

In any case, the ravens are not to be envied, which eke out their existence day in, day out in the office halls of eternity.

The video game "Death's Door" sends the player as a nameless crow into a bureaucratic limbo, behind whose desks are other unfortunate crows who, despite their immortality in the afterlife, complain that they don't have the time.

Kira Kramer

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The only thing that cuts through the black and white monotony is the bright red blade, which suggests that we don't have to do a desk job after all. As an employee of the authority that calls itself the “Harvest Commission”, our first order is not long in coming. It is a matter of collecting or harvesting a soul in this world, as it is called in the game. Already a door opens in the checkerboard-tiled corridors of the commission and grants access to the world of mortals, in which we as the feathered grim reaper give the final escort - but also temporarily become mortals.

In this world the player is on his own.

Except for very brief explanations of the controls, no tutorial or map helps us to explore the world.

Instead, it is now dipped in color, which hardly makes it any more comfortable.

Because once the soul you are looking for is found and snatched from a four-armed do-it-all in the first boss fight of the game, a torn giant crow licks it away from us with a targeted hit on the head.

The paragraph riders of the harvest commission do not like such a failed order at all, so quickly after and save what can be saved - otherwise annoying forms wait.

Soul energy for the door of death

The search for the thieving crow leads us to all sorts of bizarre characters who seek to reduce our already scarce life points if we do not forestall them and stain the landscape with their magenta-colored blood. The giant crow that is tracked down finally reveals to us that it was once a soul collector itself a long time ago. She stole from us in order to use the “soul energy” to try to open a gigantic black door: the eponymous “Door of Death”. She was unsuccessful. The door remains locked, and our raven bird, who is apparently not too loyal to the authorities, can be harnessed to harvest more souls, with whose energy the door of death can be opened. Unsurprisingly, the head of the harvest commission met with little approval.So begins a journey through the world of the living, in which some people resist death.