Death Lease

Death Lease

kezbobicus · October 3, 2023 · Exploration, Simulation, Stealth, Walking Simulator, First-Person

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About Death Lease

Your brother is missing! Your only clue is the last message you received from him while he was checking in on your most recent lessees. Its now up to you to get in and get him out without getting gotten yourself.

Travel through the house while avoiding the spirits of the previous inhabitants. This can be done by listening and watching out for them and using the house against them. If you are caught, you are dead. So don't not get caught.

Use The House To Survive



Close doors and use lights to keep the enemies at bay while finding the items needed to save your brother.
Or just sit down for a bit, because that actually really does help.

This game features this revolutionary list of new and excited player actions:
  • Use
  • Pick Up
  • Put Down

By using your wits and skills, you can avoid the spirits and save your brother and continue being the best realtors in the business!

Alternatively


Do none of that and just sacrifice your entire head to him. He really likes them.

Death Lease — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Death Lease is a first-person horror game set in a supernatural house, but players overwhelmingly report frustrating and repetitive gameplay where invisible creatures repeatedly send them back to the start with little clarity on objectives or progression. Critics describe it as a poorly assembled asset flip with incoherent design, unpolished mechanics, and confusing detours like an out-of-place pool minigame, with the general consensus being that it's not worth playing regardless of price.

Not recommended Nov 16, 2024
What is the point of this game? You wander around aimlessly until you get jumped by some silly little creature and get sent back to the start over and over. Terrible. Rating: 1/10
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Recommended Sep 5, 2026
Death Lease is a compact first-person horror game that turns a seemingly ordinary property into a supernatural trap. The story begins with the disappearance of the protagonist’s brother, who was investigating the latest tenants of a house before suddenly going silent. His final message provides enough reason to enter the property, but the search soon reveals that something far more dangerous has taken control of the place. Developed and published by kezbobicus, the game focuses on supernatural survival, exploration, environmental interaction, and vulnerability rather than giving the player enough firepower to eliminate every threat. The house forms the core of the experience. Instead of functioning merely as a collection of creepy corridors and rooms, its ordinary features become part of the survival mechanics. Doors can be closed to create separation from hostile spirits, while lights can influence how safely certain situations can be approached. This encourages players to pay attention to their surroundings and think about how individual rooms connect. Moving carelessly can quickly lead to trouble, while learning the layout and recognizing useful environmental features gives the…
Not recommended Feb 16, 2026
I died and suddenly I was playing pool. Wtf is this game
Not recommended Dec 5, 2025
"Death Lease" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game, typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. This is your usual run of the mill Unity asset flip, a collection of mismatched, crappy assets assembled to make a "spooky house adventure" with odd jumpscares and painfully bad, unpolished and incoherent gameplay. So, the game might look better than you'd expect from an amateur project, but this is because it's partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Very little in this game is truly the creation of the "developer", it's just a bunch of rearranged assets. While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the other problem with asset flips is that when developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer ei…
Not recommended Jan 10, 2025
Not for me. Not fun. Not really that playable. At least there was pool.
Not recommended Nov 8, 2024
i tried to have fun in the silly house but stupid little creatures i couldn't see kept sending me back to the playing pool and listening to bad music zone. can't recommend it.

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