Martha is Dead

"All in all, Martha is Dead, despite struggling to hold my attention at times, is a well crafted game, with incredibly detailed visuals and models, an interesting cast of characters, and an unsettling but highly intriguing story to tell. If …"

"Martha is Dead isn’t for the faint-hearted, though sadly that’s not for the right reasons. There are too many moving parts in this game that weigh the already poorly-paced story down. If this was a spooky investigative adventure that required …"

"Intriguing and often disturbing, Martha is Dead makes for a worthwhile narrative experience, barring some issues."

"Martha is Dead tells a deeply personal and complex story that strikes at some complex issues that are only held back from greatness due to technical struggles."

"While I enjoyed a fraction of my time exploring Martha is Dead&s;s gorgeous Tuscan farmlands, the thing I&s;m most thankful for is how mercifully short the game is. The closing credits shocked me back into coherence like a bolt out …"

"The development team has to be applauded for pushing the boundary of the horror industry with its ideas. It’s just a shame that it stumbles so heavily when it comes to the execution and dilutes its strongest element with generic, …"

"As long as you can withstand its often extremely disturbing content, Martha is Dead is a absorbing and atmospheric adventure with a brilliantly realised setting and a beautifully haunting soundtrack. We can’t stress enough that it won’t suit all tastes, …"

"Martha is Dead deals with losing loved ones and losing your own self through a powerful narrative that can be quite uncomfortable at times."

"Martha is Dead is a complex first-person narrative adventure, a story of traumatic experiences that could upset the sensitivity of those who play. Anyway LKA depicted in a brilliant and compelling way the discomfort of the main character, even if …"

"Even with certain flaws typical of "small" productions, Martha is Dead has a strong personality that permeates us and will turn our heads for a long time. Of course, it is not for sensitive stomachs."

"Martha is Dead is confusing, exploitative and troubling, but it pushes the limits of the medium in ways that few games have."

"Martha Is Dead intrigued me throughout its short seven hour runtime. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this title despite the constant amount of stability issues I encountered. This game plays more like a mystery with a couple …"

"Martha Is Dead offers a narrative that’s provocative, intense, dark, and emotional. And yes, it’s not for the faint of heart. It’s plenty gory. Given that it takes place during WWII the story doesn’t seem out of place either. It …"

"It&s;s not every day that you get to play through a game that leaves a mark with its disturbing and tragic story, but Martha Dead was able to achieve something that got me thinking from start to finish. The game&s;s …"

"It is a cruel game, narratively imperfect, and at the same time quite courageous, as well as not very lenient towards the (very difficult and very delicate) matter it deals with."

"Martha is Dead had all the right ideas, touching upon themes of loss, war, and personal identity in a meaningful way in a horror game. It unfortunately failed to deliver on an experience that cohesively weaved together those great ideas, …"

"This is a hard moment to experience and there are many more throughout Martha is Dead, but none of these are implemented for shock value. All of these moments are carefully thought-out and relevant to the story and exploration of …"

"If only Dalcò, rather than honouring his heroine by smothering her search for truth in confounding gloom, had abided by her love of illumination."

"‎Martha is Dead is a halfway game. A title that you can enjoy if you are a lover of the genre, but that you play it knowing that something is missing, knowing that it could have been something more. If …"

"‎Martha is Dead proposes a horror experience far from the clichés of the genre, and although it ‎‎begins‎‎ that way then it goes very little by little towards a psychological thriller that talks about topics that can touch the fiber …"

"Like a heaping of horror media, Martha Is Dead&s;s solid start and some nuanced supplementary mechanics are betrayed by its worst impulses by the end."

"Martha is Dead is a suggestive adventure game: the narrative plot is very interesting, as well as the way the story is told. Too bad about the gameplay not being too in-depth."

"While a terrible murder is what sets the events of Martha is Dead in motion, the real focus of the game is Giulia&s;s psyche and how it was affected by past and present thraumas. LKA&s;s new adventure might not be …"

"Martha is Dead starts off strong, with an intriguing story amid a tumultuous backdrop, and a main gameplay mechanic with a ton of room to evolve. Unfortunately, the game squanders every opportunity it has to develop its story or gameplay …"

"Martha is Dead may sometimes become very eccentric, but the game&s;s mood and mystery will greatly appeal to you from the beginning."

"Martha is Dead wants to send a big important message, but the way it&s;s delivered is terrifyingly bad, not only in it&s;s writing but also in the shoddy gameplay."

"Martha is Dead will leave you psychologically scarred. Whether you enjoy the process depends on your constitution and hatred of bicycles."

"Martha is Dead meets every expectation and exceeds most of them. It is a true ghost story, perfectly designed to demand you keep playing while making you want to stop. Its near-flawless design sets a new benchmark in the quietly, …"

"Martha is Dead is best appreciated from a distance, because while its narrative premise and setting are certainly impresses, the game itself is slow as molasses and frustratingly clunk."

"A highly original, dark gothic thriller whose lack of compromises will restrict its audience but are hard not to admire."

"While certainly an accomplished piece of storytelling, Martha Is Dead&s;s gameplay is such blatant artifice that it does the narrative a disservice to partake in it. That sounds extremely damning, but there&s;s a lot here to like: the languid pace …"

"Horror fans looking for an adrenaline rush, though, won&s;t find anything here to sate their appetites, unfortunately, but some fairly gruesome scenes certainly lean into the psychological horror tropes, and never cheap out on the gory details."

"Martha is Dead is an unflinching and utterly absorbing ordeal to be endured rather than enjoyed."

"A good premise and gripping start is undermined by a second half of bugs, bad writing, and grossly overused clich&s;s of mental ill-health."

"LKA made the best recreation of an Italian setting I’ve ever seen in a game and I wanted nothing more than to enjoy it. However, LKA’s love of Italy is the only warmth I felt in Martha is Dead. The …"

"Martha Is Dead fails to deliver any meaningful semblance of the story it wants to tell and ends up being nothing more than a colossal and tedious disappointment."