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Kawaii Deathu Desu
Developer Pippin Games
In Kawaii Deathu Desu, supernatural beings find themselves incarnated as cute japanese idols! Pick a supernatural idol and beat the hell out of - no pun intended - as many overzealous fans as you can in this addictive beat'em up as you work your way up to claim the throne of the underworld! From the Steam store page
133 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
56
Mixed
73 positive · 57 negative
95% range 48–64%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
225 of 339 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 133 · most liked firstI was expecting something that required a bit of reaction and thinking, like One Finger Death Punch, but instead I found this game to be nothing but mashing. You can beat anything by just killing your fingers. Then I figured "if it's so mindless, I might as well put up a macro recording to play the game for me." So I did. That was a lot more interesting. I actually got quite a kick out of figuring out some kinks that a macro recorder has. So after one day and one night just letting this fancy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: - Simple and somewhat fun gameplay - Original music - There are skins for all of the characters that you can buy using souls that you've collected - Pixel-art is pretty decent - Low price for the game Cons: - Lack of content, there is not too many stages in game (Only 9 stages total) - Playing on insane difficulty that is supposed to be end game content gives like NO SOULS i mean what the hell??? It's totally not worth doing compared to normal and hard as far as farming souls is…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never have I ever played more grindy game in my life. The game is fun and all for about 1/2 hours but once you want to get all the achievements, you'll spent all your time playing the same map over and over again just to get the souls to buy/upgrade characters. I would go as far as to say, it's borderline impossible to finish this game without using an autokey script unless you enjoy working at the sweatshop or like extremely repetitive things. Considering it's meant to be a rhythm game,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Addictive game full of cute pixel anime girls!" + Point : Sometimes simple gives the best fun. ヽ(=´▽`=)ﾉ Intro Kawaii Deathu Desu. It is a 2D side-scrolling beat'em up game made by Pippin Games and published by Top Hat Studios. In this game, the player becomes one of the supernatural beings to decide who can claim the throne of the underworld. Interestingly, it is a Japanese style anime idol girl competition contest! You aim to be the final winner by reaping the souls of countless fans…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kawaii Deathu Desu is basically the sum of its parts. It is about as straight foward as a game can get. If there is an enemy to the left, attack left. If there is an enemy to the right, attack right. It really is as simple as that. There has been a lot of comparisons to One Finger Death Punch and I can understand where people are coming from but there is one crucial difference: One Finger Death Punch (OFDP) insists that you don’t button mash. You won’t directly lose if you do, but you will be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very disappointing, as the artwork looks great. It turns out the game is a button spam game with remarkably unreasonable grinding required to unlock even the next stage. From a game play perspective, this is one of the worst game I've ever played. It is not a beat em up, there is no rhythm; there is only mashing A and D. Using auto hot key proves that spam left and right is all the game expects. There is no skill - it's just mashing input. Most importantly, if you have any type of repetitive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is like if they saw One Finger Deathpunch and thought "Yeah, I want to do that!" but didn't know what made OFDP fun in the first place. The entirety of the gameplay goes down to mashing the left and right arrow keys until you either die or finish the level. If you want to murder your fingers in a boring and mindless way then this is your perfect guillotine.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am glad that I got this on a boundle with the studio's other works, and that applies doubly so to the fact that I played this one last. First of all, the character design is as charming as the other games... and that's about it. There is no story so nothing to speak there and while the actual gameplay is as polished as can be, if you can trully screw up a game where the only gameplay is MASHING 2 buttons then we would have a bigger problem. Yeah, this studio's other games feel a bit…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An extremely grindy and brainless button masher with cute sprites. I'm sure there some people that would enjoy this but i'm clearly not the target audience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⣿⣿⡻⠿⣳⠸⢿⡇⢇⣿⡧⢹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡐⣯⠁ ⠄⠄ ⠟⣛⣽⡳⠼⠄⠈⣷⡾⣥⣱⠃⠣⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⠽⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢢⠏⠄ ⠄ ⢠⡿⠶⣮⣝⣿⠄⠄⠈⡥⢭⣥⠅⢌⣽⣿⣻⢶⣭⡿⠿⠜⢿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠄⠄ ⠄⣼⣧⠤⢌⣭⡇⠄⠄⠄⠭⠭⠭⠯⠴⣚⣉⣛⡢⠭⠵⢶⣾⣦⡍⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⣿⣷⣯⣭⡷⠄⠄⢀⣀⠩⠍⢉⣛⣛⠫⢏⣈⣭⣥⣶⣶⣦⣭⣛⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣎⢩⠌⣡⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠄⠄⠄ ⢸⡿⢟⣽⠎⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠄⠄ ⣰⠯⣾⢅⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠄ ⢰⣄⡉⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄ ⢯⣌⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢸⣇⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢸⣟⣧⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⠈⢹⡧⣿⣸⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠗⣈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄ ⠄⠘⢷⡳⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⢀⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠄ ⠄⠄⠈⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠄⠄
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you love cute idols? Do you feel like your a idol yourself and want to bash the brains out of your fans that chase and adore you? Like to vent and bash stuff? Then this is totally for you. Yet I cannot. For simple reasons along with health reasons and lastly as well as creative reasons. Why am I mentioning health issues? Well, listen to what I say and I will explain. (Health is the most important and will come first, more will be later.) This game solely focuses on one thing and one thing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →💀 DEATH-CHAN STEP ON MY SOUL! 💀 REVIEWED ON: (GeForce GT 1030/i7-3770 ) -I've never sliced the hearts of so many Simps and fans hungry for Idol pantsu in my laifu! This game is nothing special, and for those wondering it's a simple button-mashing experience. It's one of those games that is worth keeping installed at all times until you've finally beat it. And also great if you want to waste some quick time when doing other things, like torrenting games. After a while I even muted the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So much effort with these games goes into creating 'waifus' that they tend forget about the underlying game. My issue isn't the visual style nor the music, but rather with the very shallow experience it offers. It doesn't require any skill, any memorisation or timing, just the spamming of two ("A" & "D") buttons... ad infinitum. Why? To slowly accumulate intentionally small amounts of points to level up characters that require dramatically increasing amounts of points with each level in order…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one finger death punch but bad button mashing simulator
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is like one finger death punch if you removed everything good about that game. namely the combo system. here you'll just button mash the 2 directions to fill your power gauge in hopes your special will help you surviving the timer to the level as the game spawns as many enemies as it feels like on you. attacks do hit every enemy in range though some do doge or take a few hits. there are unlockable characters each with unlockable outfits and level ups but its all just to justify the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So grateful for my gamepad with Turbo functions. If doesn't have it, your fingers will be destroyed. YUBI-YUBI This game is really long way to unlock all the characters. But I'll forgive it all, because kawaii. <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While DLSS5 hasn't arrived to influence game art direction just yet, take advantage of the Pippin Games sale on Steam ! 🔥 Maiden Cops – 33% off 💍 Wife Quest – 75% off 💀 Kawaii Deathu Desu – 70% off www.pippingames.com Grab them now while the discounts last! 🎮✨ #IndieGames #PippinGames #pongrn
unlabelledView post →Considering the entire game consists of pressing “left” or “right”, the gameplay is pretty fun. A lot of manic button mashing, and cute over the top animations. This game reminds me of Vampire Survivors or Brotato if they were played on a 2D plane. However, this game is doomed because of its insanely slow progression. If a game is this simple, it better have quick upgrade paths so you feel like things are changing, even if it’s only a tiny bit at a time. Kawaii Death Desu goes the opposite…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crap. It's basically an auto attack game where you grind souls to upgrade stats to unlock more characters. Press 2 buttons and just spend hours on end till you unlock everything. It is not a traditional beat'em up like it's marketed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice little game to play after a bad day at work and destroy your keyboard. The game looks like an anime version of One Finger Death Punch, and the sprites and music are good. But it's just a button mashing game literally. There's no rhythm or reward/punish when you hit/miss the enemies. Just mash until time runs out. It's a very grindy game as it forces you to play the same level multiple times in order to progress, the earnings for upgrades are quite low and there's really no difference when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If i had 1€ for every time i played this game, i would have no money because i spent them on new keyboards. 10/10 game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't even qualify as a game. Just a mashing simulator. Just play one finger death punch if you any challenge. No timing No real design except it's harder because they have mor health and spawns more. Don't buy this, even for a dollar
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game so bad it made me wish for deathu upon myself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🎤 A cute little time killer, with nice graphics and good music. There's enough content to unlock, but be prepared for a VERY long grind. The arenas are varied, but it would be better if there were more of them, as they can be completed in a couple of hours (if you invest in LVLing, not cosmetics). In any case, the game isn't even close to bad, because it's made at a decent level for the genre. This is a story about how monster girls decided to save on stage security, which wasn't a very good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It honestly just plays like a worse version of One Finger Death Punch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its like this one game called One finger death punch, but worse in every way
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not One Finger Death Punch with anime girls, which is a real shame because that would have been a better game. Kawaii Deathu Desu uses the same "fight enemies from two sides" gameplay as One Finger Death Punch, but it is not able to copy the same satisfying gameplay, there's no satisfaction in precisely making your attacks to defeat the enemies on screen, in fact if you try to play Kawaii Deathu Desu like One Finger Death Punch you are going to have a bad time. I was only ever able…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So this game is about spamming two buttons. And I mean literally spam. You spam these buttons, proceed to next level where there are enemies with a bit more hp so you need to spam faster. You gain a special attack after killing x enemies for few seconds, but basically what it does in this game is that you can chill for a bit and spam a bit less for a moment. There are two types of enemies in this game (aside from just having less or more HP): One that just runs at you, second that runs at you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Welcome to my gameplay demonstration:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm only giving this a yes because if you have a sick imagination like I do, you'll see each area of the game being the following; >Weeaboo genocide >Hong Kong 97 >Twitters wet dream >Brazil Jokes aside, the game is ok. They just really need to up the amount of souls you get as 100%ing the game takes five forevers and if you're like me, you will fall asleep grinding this for minutes on end.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ow my wrist. It's One Finger Death Punch, but take away bosses, brawlers, thrown weapon interactions, and fundamental design decisions that made One Finger Death Punch require the player to actually pay attention such as the vulnerability threat of missing and never having enemies overlap each other. The game ends up becoming just a button masher that, overall, takes much less brainpower than OFDP while keeping the gameplay repetitive by having each stage play out roughly the same way. I like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is basically a weeb version of One Finger Death Punch but with the absence of everything that made One Finger such a fun game. I mean even the developer itself admitted that Kawaii Deathu Desu was heavily inspired by it and at first glance it's the same indeed. You are in the middle of the stage and enemies are approaching from left and right, so you have to do the left or right attack at the right time to beat them up. Thats what i thought at least. In reality, while playing the game,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you can beat any level of a game with your eyes closed and the sound off, it's probably not very good
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Went into playing the game with no expectations. Cute character design and a cute concept. Quickly became addicted to playing. The different music levels get progressively harder, but not too hard that you can't beat them with enough practice or leveling up the characters.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →go play One Finger Death Punch instead. One Finger Death Punch is better in every way.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What can I say, this game is fun but a grind. Emphasis on the grind aspect. You will see reviews here that say negative things about it being a button mashing game with only two buttons which I agree it is a button masher with two buttons but from my experience it doesn't take away from the fun. If you have trigger finger or carpal tunnel then this might not be the game for you. I managed to 100% the game in within 10 hours or so. I believe it's worth it. I bought it for under 5 USD. Enjoy and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The characters are cute and the music is good, but this requires basically zero effort to win in and gets repetitive very fast
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kawaii Dethu Desu is a game that plays similarly to 'One Finger Death Punch' albeit with more simplified gameplay mechanics and less variety in on-screen animations. You basically play as 'anime waifus' or 'idols' as they're known in Japanese culture. *pushes glasses back to top of nose with glint of light reflecting implied smugness in knowledgeability* The super kawaii waifu idol babes *cue nose bleed and steam from ears* each have a supernatural side to them which they use when attacking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best game I've ever laid my hands on. I love killing fat fan boys or whatever they are. 10/10 would recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kawaii Deathu Desu is a console ported 2D retro pixel ripoff of One Finger Death Punch, and if you know what that is, you'll know this is an incredibly dumbed down 2-button rhythm/QTE game pretending to be a brawler/beat 'em up (but it isn't). Press one of two buttons to attack to the left or right as fans try to kill you (so you kill them instead) or something... with a technical implementation this bad, and with game design this lazy, there's no point getting into the "plot" (not that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was completely surprised by Kawaii Dethu Desu. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would! Even though I didn't know the characters before I started playing, I thought they were all cute, cool, and different enough that the game never gets boring. Some of the characters' fighting styles are a little gross, but in the cutest way possible. Some reviews called it a "button masher," but I thought the gameplay was much more interesting. It's not too hard to get through the levels, but to really…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you think this game is just "button mashing" then you're wrong, you will never become kawaii, you're weak and pathetic. This, this right here is the pinnacle of videogames, this is worse than crack cocaine, videogames cannot get better than this, its impossible. The anime girls wont be the only thing that will get you going ALL NIGHT, the soundtrack. THE. SOUNDTRACK. I've never listened to a better piece of art than the beautiful melodies BLESSING my ears while I play this. Billions must…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kawaii fun!!!! ദ്ദി •⩊• )
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Funny ... Yes 🐢
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cute artstyle doesn't help the fact that it really feels as if the devs may not have really understood what makes similar games like One Finger Death Punch work. They're strict, but it's what makes the gameplay easy to learn, yet hard and really fun to master. With KDD, not only is button mashing totally fine, you pretty much have to do it. It ruins the point of this gameplay style, and makes it feel like you're not really playing a game, just testing your keyboard's durability. I'd imagine…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kawaii but repetitive gameplay. Play it when you have nothing else to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is amazing!!! i love it sm u can also get it on switch ^_^ i never though i would enjoy such a simple game like this so much! i definitely reccomend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would recommend it to those who have fans and wish to murder them and to relieve their stress.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →killing your fans is the most metal thing you can do
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →mass murder on stage
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One Finger Death Punch but with cute anime waifus. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While nothing wrong with the game itself. This is far from a beat em' up. Essentially it is a hyper version of Kung-Fu for the nes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why is this so simple yet so addictive ???
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →awesome brazilian game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the characters you unlock in the game is a "Loli". That alone ruined the fun for me. I really have zero tolerance for that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun and adorable 2 button beat'em up. The graphics are cute and gameplay is simple. Later levels do have a steep difficulty spike in my experience but I still found this an enjoyable game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you hate your fingers or ur keyboard/controller feel free to play this 2 button smashing simulator
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is NOT a rhythm game. it's a button masher, you just spam left and right, also it's REALLY grindy. its fun for 15 minutes, that's it to be fair it's kinda cute (hell i bought it because it looked cute), it's well animated and the songs arent absolute unlistenable crap. This seems to be the developer's first game, so I really hope they have put all this effort into a more interesting game (which apparently they did! Wife Quest and Maiden Corps are better reviewed than Kawaii Deathu Desu)
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