Cadaver is an isometric action-adventure game by the Bitmap Brothers, originally released by Image Works in August 1990, for Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS.

In the original Cadaver, Karadoc, who is a gold-hungry dwarf and really just hopes to find a treasure, is on a mission to seek out and kill the necromancer Dianos, the sole remaining inhabitant of Castle Wulf.

Karadoc's main modus operandi is picking up, throwing, pulling, pushing and stacking objects.

Karadoc can find and use a small number of weapons such as rocks and shuriken, but puzzles are the main driving force behind the gameplay.

The solutions to these puzzles sometimes require leaps in logic and the game has plenty of secret areas, hidden spells etc.

After defeating Dianos, Karadoc returns to the inn only to find his employers gone, and every living person within the city either dead or transformed into a monster.

The Atari version was awarded as "C+VG HIT" in Computer and Video Games magazine issue 107[6] in 1990.

The One praised The Pay-Off's new content and similar difficulty, stating that "players who have completed Cadaver will enjoy the greater variety and continued challenge".