The air conditioner is working over time. You are relaxing in the cushioned comfort of your home. But death, the necessary evil, is waiting for you at the door. It is knocking. Softly. Slowly. You can run, but you can't escape… Welcome to the world of termination, extinction and demise. Cheating Death, the new game from arcadephase will make sure you get some sleepless nights. And remember, here is a game that will test your intelligence, responses and ability to react to visual changes. One error on your part and you could risk your life. So tread carefully. Danger is looming ahead of you. The basic theme of the game is quite simple. As in your real life, Death plays the opponent in your virtual life. You are both required to find out the location of ships and in the process you will hover the space bar over the playing square.

Your task is to press the accuse button whenever you notice death cheating on you. And before you assume that you can take the liberty to accuse Death in however much time you wish to, may we please correct you. If you do not use the stipulated time to accuse Death, you lose that turn and a loud blast is heard indicating the same. But this, dear reader is only half the story. This is only the bitter icing on the bitter cake. The catch here is that if you accuse death falsely, when it is not looking, you will lose a turn. And beware! If you lose three turns, you lose your life. The aim is to try to sink the ships of the opponent before it sinks yours. This will be achieved by taking guesses on the board as to where your opponent might have kept hidden the battle ship.

There will be 4 ships for you and 4 for your opponent. Their length varies from 2 to 5 squares. The layout and frame up of the game is very lucid yet attractive. It comprises two separate boards, one for you and one for your opponent Death. If you are an avid gamer, you shall revel in the fantastic clarity of the graphics of the game. The colors are typically the sort you would imagine in a horrific game and are inspired from mystic movies. The theme page itself is so inviting, yet scary that you will leave your daily chores to the maid and fall prey to the mysteries of the internet action games.

Oh! and did we mention about the background score? No we did not. So here it is in one word – spine chilling! Yes. It is such a seat of the pants feel to listen to those bell gongs going in and out that you almost start believing that it's a death knell for you. Time, the deciding factor in the game echoes its importance through the horrifying tones which play when you start the cheating death.If horror, mystery and a spooky atmosphere are your daily doses of entertainment, you will watch yourself being consumed by the sheer addictiveness of Cheating Death. And if that creepy and uncanny human skull increases your heart beat, this is the right game for you. So what are you waiting for? Go grab your computers… Death is coming