Unlike many video games, where the aim is to avoid death, I Am Dead begins with its protagonist already in the afterlife. As Morris Lupton, former curator of a tiny museum on the barely-any-bigger island of Shelmerston (fictional, but geographically a short ferry ride from the Isles of Scilly, going further away from mainland Britain, from what’s suggested), the player is charged with saving this delightfully picture-postcard speck in the North Atlantic from a disastrous fate.