Sleep Is Death
A story-telling PC game for two players by game designer Jason Rohrer, creator of Passage.
Sleep Is Death is an adventure developed by Jason Rohrer, released 16 April 2010 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sleep Is Death is
Sleep Is Death is an adventure game developed by Jason Rohrer and released in 2010. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Jason Rohrer is an American computer programmer, writer, musician, and game designer. He publishes most of his software into the public domain and charges for versions of his games distributed on commercial platforms like the iPhone appstore or Steam. He is a graduate of Cornell University. From 2004 until 2011 he practiced simple living, stating in 2009 that his family of four had an annual budget of less than $14,500. They have since relocated from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Davis, California. In 2005 Jason Rohrer worked on a local currency, called North Country Notes (NCN), for Potsdam, New York. In 2016 Rohrer became the first videogame artist to have a solo retrospective in an art…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox.
How it was received
Sleep Is Death holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sleep Is Death launched on 16 April 2010, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sleep Is Death yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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