The war is prominent throughout your entire experience but only a few times being directly front and center in front of you, however, you can collect newspapers, telegrams and listen to the radio to keep updated on what is occurring in the world during the war, that all progress each “day” the game takes place in. Grounded in reality, Martha Is Dead’s setting and historical context are inspired by real facts and places that have been faithfully reconstructed. You can freely explore the breathtakingly realized Tuscany countryside on foot, by boat, or by bike. Martha Is Dead is an exploration of loss, relationships, and the psychological undertones of a dark period of history through the eyes of a young woman who seeks the truth, but who also has secrets of her own to hide. With a backdrop of a horrible war, supernatural encounters, photography, puppets, morse code, this game has a spattering of different encounters much like What Remains of Edith Finch, but much darker believe it or not. In these walking simulator-type horror games there are always a few key moments that stick with you…and Martha is Dead has a lot of them.

So when I first got wind of Martha is Dead I was on board. As you may or may not know, I dig horror games, for the most part, both the cheesy and the serious. What can I say about this game? First, off apologies for the delay in coverage, there was a game-breaking bug for me on PS5 and I had to wait for the most recent patch to hit so I could continue on this haunting game. The hunt for the truth is shrouded by mysterious folklore and the extreme horror of war that draws ever closer. Martha is dead, and her twin sister Giulia, the young daughter of a German soldier, must alone deal with the acute trauma of loss and the fallout from her murder. Martha Is Dead is a dark first-person psychological thriller, set in 1944 Italy, that blurs the lines between reality, superstition, and the tragedy of war.Īs conflict intensifies between German and Allied forces, the desecrated body of a woman is found drowned… Martha!

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