Martha Is Dead

Jump Dash RollDerek Johnson

8/10

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

Capsule ComputersClaudio Meira

8/10

A very well crafted piece of cinematic video game. Its extreme depictions of physical and psychological violence aren't for the faint of heart.

Impulse GamerAbdul Saad

Martha is Dead is a psychological horror mystery game unlike any other. It recently garnered attention due to its unadulterated and gory depiction of body

GGReconDaniel Conlan

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VideogamerJosh Wise

6/10

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

GamingBoltShubhankar Parijat

6/10

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

Gaming NexusHenry Yu

5.5/10

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, along with a slew of technical and performance issues.

TechRaptorLee Mehr

5/10

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

Press StartBrodie Gibbons

4/10

While I enjoyed a fraction of my time exploring Martha is Dead's gorgeous Tuscan farmlands, the thing I'm most thankful for is how mercifully short the game is. The closing credits shocked me back into coherence like a bolt out of the blue to cap off what is—and I'm being generous—an interestingly imperfect experience.

Checkpoint GamingAlex Beaty

4/10

Martha is Dead is a foreboding new horror title from the developers at LKA that’s a grim tale of trauma and murder, taking place in 1944 Italy, with the events of World War 2 happening around the game’s story. With a title as defiant as that, one has to wonder what it will unfold to be, but alas Martha is Dead might be the only mercy the game provides.

GameGrinSamiee "Gutterpunk" Tee

3/10

Shocking, controversial, technically broken, brutally forward with its presentation, and forwardly present in its mechanics, Martha is Dead wants nothing but a shocked gasp and an article made about its material. Mission accomplished, but at the cost of integrity.

StartMenuAmy Eastland

Unscored

Finally, it is worth noting, that there is an additional triggering scene at the end where Giulia then ‘kills’ herself, by slitting her wrists. The developers added an option on PC where you can censor this sequence. I was relieved to have this option, however, like enforced edits on Playstation, I do think that the option should be available to censor the rest of the scenes should you need to, if you want the experience that game without having to be deeply upset.