Saturday, 27th October 2018

Solving murders and simulating detectives

Pure and simple detective stories are hard to find in video gaming today. Everyone goes for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, but the good old murder to solve is not so popular. Back in the 90s (or the 80s) you could play some adventure games based on a detective story. There was also a strange kind of video game that we can call "detective simulation" in which you had to find clues and question suspects in order to find the murderer. I can't think of a recent game that does that, can you?

Murder Club adventure
1991

Murder by the Dozen adventure
1983

The Clue! adventure
1994

Crime City action
1993

Murder on the Zinderneuf adventure
1984