"See, you don't know for sure that people are, in fact, dead"

Gods, demons, and jazz make Paradise Killer's world a perfect mystery playground

- By Imogen Mellor 

Paradise Killer passed me by when it originally launched in 2021, but I was frequently told I'd love it for its murder mystery and surreal twists - and I'm glad I finally gave in and gave it a try.

You play as Lady Loves Dies, an immortal just now coming back to this society after thousands of years of exile. Gods and demons exist, and your class of humanoids are somewhere in between the two. The council of the island have a lovely tradition of murdering its entire human population every so often to gain enough power to make another island, hoping to eventually create a home which is perfect. So it's a murder mystery with a large helping of religious fanatics, the undercurrent of genocide, and jazzy tunes.