10 Video Games Where You Start Off Dead

10. Grim Fandango

Tim Schafer's existential adventure masterpiece Grim Fandango is wholly concerned with death, set as it is in the Land of the Dead and all.

Our protagonist is the very deceased Manny Calavera, who is stuck working a literally dead-end job as a travel agent in the Department of Death.

Grim Fandango is a unique entry on this list given how little we ever learn about Manny pre-death, such as the sin which caused him to end up stuck in the Land of the Dead in the first place.

Also unlike most video games featuring dead protagonists, Manny is never resurrected or offered the ability to return to the Land of the Living.

Rather, his happy ending is being able to finally travel to the Ninth Underworld with his love, Meche, where their souls will be able to rest forever. D'aww.