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Dead Weight

Published 3 Nov 2026
@egudjohnsen8 games

A dead clerk, a stubborn curse, and an afterlife buried in paperwork: a darkly comic point-and-click adventure.

Pell Farthing has a backlog to clear and a birthday nobody remembers. Then an ordinary day at the Bureau becomes a very unusual death.

Welcome to Gristle, a rain-soaked city where curses are filed, ghosts queue, and even the afterlife has small print. Guide Pell through a world of petty officials, impossible procedures and suspicious pennies, with a formidable elderly curse named Mildred at his side.

Dead Weight is a darkly comic point-and-click adventure about death, bureaucracy and the trouble with following the rules. Explore richly illustrated locations, question an eccentric cast, collect and combine items, and turn the system's own logic against it. From office tea politics to an argumentative lamp and the rules of the river crossing, every obstacle has a story behind it.

This release contains the complete first chapter, Dead on Arrival, including its opening, puzzles, finale and closing stinger. More chapters are coming.

Play with mouse, touch or keyboard. Progress saves automatically, so you can return to your unfinished business.

Controls
Keyboard, Touch
Plays on
Computers, phones and tablets
Screen
Landscape
Updated
3 Nov 2026
Rated
General
Content notes
Cartoon violence · Scary moments

How to play

Click or tap to walk. Choose Look, Take, Use or Talk, then select a person or object. To use an item, select Use, the item, then its target. Keys 1-4 select verbs; Tab cycles hotspots; Enter acts; I selects inventory; ? reveals hotspots; Esc opens the menu. Progress saves automatically.

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