I Am Dead is a delightfully quirky game about the afterlife, presenting a unique world with a rich history inside of it, all with a tone that’s a perfect level of light-hearted. While you may be able to breeze through certain parts of it, the whole game makes for a memorable experience, filled with enjoyable puzzles to solve, colorful tidbits to uncover and interesting characters to learn about.
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If you are looking for a charming little puzzler and hidden object game then you cannot go wrong with I Am Dead. The story experience can be swept through in a few hours, and they will pass quite quickly, but it's an unforgettable journey.
I Am Dead, with its ghosts, its world of objects, large and small, curiosities charged in some ways by the people who owned them, speaks to this very clearly, for me at least. It speaks of the ways that conversations with the dead go on.
I Am Dead does a fantastic job of forcing us to look at our lives, and reminds us that those who are gone are still alive in the memories we hold dear. The puzzles are fun, and the island of Shelmerston is beautiful.
I Am Dead is a delightfully quirky game about the afterlife, presenting a unique world with a rich history inside of it, all with a tone that’s a perfect level of light-hearted. While you may be able to breeze through certain parts of it, the whole game makes for a memorable experience, filled with enjoyable puzzles to solve, colorful tidbits to uncover and interesting characters to learn about.
A charmingly offbeat exploration and object finding game which is at least as much about its characters and their stories as it is the mechanics of your search.
It makes for a game that is mature yet whimsical, exploring known and unknown impressions left on a community by those who have passed on, and the complete tale is a fulfilling one with a creative narrative finale. For such a high concept game mechanic, it’s frustrating that the controls aren’t as intuitive as could be, but it’s nothing that compromises I Am Dead’s colorful portal into North Atlantic island life.
The additional bits like Grenkins and Mr. Whitstable, while amusing, don’t really do enough to add to that core experience in my opinion outside of being an extra challenge for the puzzle-minded, but the story is well worth the romp. I Am Dead is a veritable search-and-find like no other I have ever seen before with a charming world to match. I don’t know when my time will come, but when it does, I should hope any possible afterlife might be a little something like this game.
The love is deep in their very bones, and it makes you love it too. For the six to eight hours it took me to reach the end credits, it even fooled me into thinking I liked my own hometown, which is not true. I hate where I’m from. That’s okay though, because I choose to be from Shelmerston now.