Tax Heaven 3000
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I want to know something about you that’s really personal… Like what’s your social security number?”
—Iris, game trailer
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Tax Heaven 3000 (Also known as TH3K) is a dating sim that is also tax preparation software for 2022 Federal Income taxes in the United States. It was released during tax season in 2023 by artist collective MSCHF.
Tropes used in Tax Heaven 3000 include:
- Anime Hair: Iris has long pink hair complete with ahoge.
- Author Tract: Against the American Tax Filing industry.
- Berserk Button: Iris does not like Turbo Tax.
- Dialogue Tree
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: Failed at this, resulting in removal from Steam prior to launch.
- Multiple Endings
- Punny Name: A few examples.
- The name of the game itself “Tax Heaven” is a play on “Tax Haven”.
- Iris sounds a lot like IRS.
- Revenue Enhancing Devices: The game was made available as a free download, but a $90 special edition came with a physical copy, instruction manual, and body pillow of Iris.
- Rose-Haired Girl: Iris
- Mundane Utility: For players working traditional jobs and filing singly with no dependents, the game really doe produce documents that assist in filing 2022 Federal Tax Returns. Of course, this ceased to be useful after April 18, 2023.
- Schmuck Bait: A few reviewers were highly skeptical of providing a real social security number to a dating sim.
- Target Audience: Visual Novel players filing their 2022 American taxes singally and with no dependants.
- One-Tract Mind: American Tax information is something Iris is very keen on collecting.
- Strange Girl: Iris bonds over collecting tax information.
- Widget Series: A W(H)AT. There is a slim niche of people in the USA who needed to file their 2022 tax returns singly, and had a desire to do so via a dating sim.