A finite complex over a field $k$ is pretty simple: it's the direct sum of its homology with a split-exact complex. How complicated can a finite double complex be? Does it make a difference if $k$ is algebraically closed? It seems as though quiver representation theory may be relevant here, but since a double complex is a representation of a quiver _with relations_, I'm not really sure where to start looking. So my question is: **Question:** Let $k$ be a field. How complicated is the category of finite-(total) dimensional double complexes over $k$?