I Am Dead

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.

Matching smart (if simple) puzzle thinking and intricate exploration, I Am Dead's Shelmerston is well worth visiting.

A delightful puzzle adventure full of charm, personality, and satisfying ghostly X-ray vision mechanics.

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.