2026-09-03 · retro-review
Sleep Is Death (2010) — The Move That Swapped the AI Opponent for a Human One
In 2010, Passage creator Jason Rohrer released Sleep Is Death, a two-player tool with no script and no AI — just a living person on the other side of the screen. That idea carried through MoMA's 2011 Talk to Me exhibition and into his own 2018 game, One Hour One Life.