5 reviews
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.
Details
- Released
- October 28, 2025
- Developer
- Terrible Toybox
- Genres
- Action · Roguelike · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure
- Publisher
- MicroProse
- Platforms
- PC · Switch · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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Death by Scrolling Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Putting a very nice twist on the auto-attacking roguelike genre, Death by Scrolling tasks you with outrunning the apocalypse on a vertically-scrolling screen. It's an absolute delight, but with little variety from one run to the next, repetition can quickly set in.
Death by Scrolling is a top-down roguelite created by Ron Gilbert. Simple and straightforward, but with several gameplay aspects that could be improved.
Death by Scrolling is a functional game. It controls well, is feature complete, and is mostly bug-free, but it lacks the spark needed to make it truly compelling. Recent updates have added new content and breathed some life into the experience, but the core remaining so bare still makes it a difficult game to recommend, unless you’re specifically looking for a stripped-down, low-commitment take on the genre.