Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders

So far the story is fine, it's a little slow as would probably be expected from the source material. But, it's so buggy, ie. characters are teleported spontaniously, to the point where I might not be able to finish the game. I'm at a crucial point where I'm about to interrogate the main suspect and suddenly I'm outside the interrogation room and can't reenter. Even though my current objective is to question him, it says that I should leave the suspect alone, as though I've already interrogated him. If I can't finish the game, I'm definitely not starting from the beginning.

Not a particularily clever or engaging point-and-click, this follows the plot of the book closely while adding a few puzzles that often feel slightly out of place. I would not recommend.

A little over simplified - mainly well voiced - basic graphic level. Still, entertaining enough.

I think I just finished the easiest adventure game I've played. Part of that may be because I've read the story years back and have seen the David Suchet version on TV within the last 5 years or so. Still the puzzles were very simple, although I didn't follow one or two of the "little gray cells" questions' logic as there were more than one possible solution but that's very minor. The gameplay was straight forward. You haven't any real independence. You can see the artistry in the thumbs. Voices were good. I'm not sure what I expected going into a mystery where I could remember certain aspects but it was fun enough and I doubt if I would have had any problem anyway as it drags you through. Interestingly it had black dragons in it ,as the night before I played it I was looking up the Black Dragon Society to see whether their name was based on the Heilong Jiang. If you are looking for a challenging mystery you might want to consider something else. If you don't know the story and don't want to read it or see the TV version first or just want a game that will finish in a day that's fairly straight forward and easy give it a shot.

Well, it's a nice little game, but not worth the 14.99 € price tag to be honest. It's a game by the way, in which (from my purely subjective and irrelevant point of view) the weaknesses outweigh the strengths overall. I found the graphic style really well done. The game atmosphere also convinced me overall. However, the movements and the scenes seemed very rigid and static. Overall, the game was very easy. It took me about 7 hours, including breaks, to play it through. Some puzzles were well structured, others completely illogical. I liked the voice output. However, for me there was still a lot of room for improvement in terms of the overall sound atmosphere. All in all: You can buy it when it's on sale and you like detective stories in the form of a point & click adventure. Despite some expectations, it didn't really convince me.