From Death’s Door to Grim Fandango and even Kentucky Route Zero, it’s become more commonplace for videogames to depict the afterlife as a macabre bureaucracy. Have A Nice Death’s rendition of the hereafter, then, isn’t quite as imaginative as it would like to think it is – for better and worse, it’s LucasArts’ adventure of which we’re most often reminded here. Yet this handsomely crafted Roguelike is glossy, taut and refined, even if it’s lacking a little light at the end of the tunnel.
In this corporate afterlife, the Grim Reaper is a CEO presiding over a company now falling well out of his control, due to both his own negligence and that