Isle of the Dead (video game)

Isle of the Dead
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Developer(s)	Rainmaker Software
Publisher(s)	Merit Software
Designer(s)	A. Sean Glaspell W. Scott Simmons
Programmer(s)	Bruce J. Mack Bryan Kelsch
Artist(s)	Myk Friedman
Composer(s)	Scott Loehr
Platform(s)	DOS
Release	1993
Genre(s)	First-person shooter, point-and-click adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Isle of the Dead is a point-and-click first-person shooter horror video game developed by Rainmaker Software and published by Merit Software in 1993 for IBM and compatibles. The game centers around Jake Dunbar, the sole survivor of a plane crash, on a mysterious tropical island inhabited by zombies under the control of a mad scientist. Dunbar can interact with non-player characters to acquire weapons and obtain items through adventure game commands.

Originally planned to be a hack-and-slash game, Isle of the Dead was made to have the feel of horror pulp comics. A minicomic was included with the game on release. Reception to the game was negative, both on release and in retrospectives, with criticism given to its graphics, in-game map, and structure. Publications, such as Computer Gaming World, have called it one of the worst video games of all time.