The biggest difference is that you start right next to your corpse, so figuring out your own identity is much easier. Why Am I Dead (still available to play online) is a short but fun mystery with a nearly identical premise of playing a ghost trying to solve his own murder. It’s clever, but it does require a lot of patience and conversation retreading, and even if you find all the clues, piecing them together at the end is anything but intuitive. Solving these mysteries is the core of the game, using a combination of ghostly powers and good old-fashioned sleuthing. The ghostly protagonist has no idea who killed him/her – in fact, s/he isn’t even aware of who s/he is (or was). Patrick McGrath’s Why Am I Dead At Sea is a follow-up to his freeware game Why Am I Dead, and is something of a twist on this age-old story. The deceased can come back for a variety of reasons, but the most common tends to be revenge.
Whether rising as a zombie (a recent favorite, it seems), reviving as a vampire, or returning as an incorporeal ghost, death seems to be less and less of an impediment in fiction. The dead coming back from beyond the grave is a familiar theme at this point.
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