While most titles give you a big old “GAME OVER” when your character shuffles off their mortal coil, these video games make mortality part of the plot. In the digital worlds beyond our own, the afterlife possibilities are endless. Hellscapes lousy with literal demons. Heavens with everything you could dream of except a stable internet connection. Purgatories where death and rebirth are part of a never-ending cycle – it’s all fair existential game. If you’re looking for answers about what happens when we die, let these titles be your spiritual teachers. These are the 10 best video games about death and the afterlife – an afterlife full of monster slaying sounds way more fun than sitting around on a cloud playing the harp for all eternity, after all.
