Mata Hari Reviews

Got the game on sale and I really enjoy it! Nice Point & Click game! Now I wanna be as cool as Mata Hari with all the seducing skills!

its an old game to be playing in 2023. but i enjoyed it nonetheless. what i like: -the theme, mata hari is a mysterious yet colorful character. Fascinating historical background and intriguing storyline. -game developers were able to weave historical events of that era into the story -visuals are good -play well on my rig on Windows 10. No issues. what i don't like -the traveling and avoid-the-spies minigame gets irrating after a while. Often, you need to travel to another city just to carry out one conversation. Duh... -the dancing mini game...some of them are impossible with a mouse -likewise for some of the avoid-the-spies mini-game...5 spies waiting to catch you ...seriously. Sure, you can skip the mini games at expense of gaining points. overall, its not a bad game, I will recommend it for history buffs who wants to know about Mata Hari.

not horrendous, but i found it pretty dull - life's too short (and my game library far too large) to waste time on dull games. just didn't grab me or hold my interest.

Really interesting game. The small issue with the game not starting is easy to fix. After that I was a bit surprised by the gameplay. After I got used to the approach, the story really got me and I now would recommend this game. I may play it again because it seems there were more things I could have done, and must have missed. :D really nice, and I liked the details and the graphics, though maybe not everyone would.

So-so p&c adventure. World famous spy from one hundred years ago mind-fucks and bangs dudes to manipulate them into giving up state secrets. There's way too much emphasis on lame mini-games involving traveling between train stations trying to elude other spies and they even found a way to make her burlesque show boring. Thankfully, they can be skipped if you don't want to rack up points and just play the adventure part. I got it for $5 and took me a little over five hours to beat. This game is geared more toward the casual crowd. It's not horrible if you're desperate for a p&c adventure and you can get it on sale.

This is an avarage game... the story of Mata makes it a liitle bit fun to play but other than that you would need special motivation. During the game to travel around the cities you have visit the train station again and again and it makes things even more boring. A map or quick travel would be great. Puzzles are few and easy... There are also some bugs and game stucks without you realizing which would end up you travelling back and forth without an outcome. Naaah

The game is an old-school point and click. You play Mata Hari, seductive, desired, curious and suspicious as she is meant to be. You will see the many sides of a sexual spy during a political, psychological and mysterious war. Although predictable, the story is a nice trip through history. The main issue with the game is repetitiveness. You have a huge amount of discussions, repetitive OST, repetitive puzzles, impossible dance mini game (another repetitive puzzle) and a bit too much of going between towns. The good side is, you can turn on the panic button for mini games, including the dancing one. It is barey possible to be successful at it on a computer without a touch screen. Do I recommend the game? Definitely, for the fans of quests with lots of speech and conversations. As a whole? Nope. *Sorry for the typos!

To be concise, the game is just barely ok, where it could have easily been at least 'good'. Cons: * Puzzles are just very easy. No real challenge here. * !!Too much backtracking!! For a game that requires so much going back from one place to another, the very least the designers could have done, is to make it easy and fast. Instead, moving between locations takes ~50-60% of the gameplay time. Moving between countries is required a lot, and often, but everytime you must: go to the current-location --> taxi --> train station --> target country --> target location. So moving from A to B takes ~4-5 screens. Every. Time. Frustrating, annoying and tedious, it adds absolutely nothing positive to the gameplay. According to record it seems I played for 7.0 hours. I theorize that if traveling has been easy, I could have completed it in as much as 3! The story of Mata Hari had some great potential, but the performance is rather poor

Good Point-and-Click Adventure game offering a classic experience with some quite challlenging mini-game puzzles. Playing as the legendary spy who was actually a dancer by profession means you will be doing some fliriting, object-combination and item fetching throughout. Mata's mission are varied and interesting, even though the actual story progression is happening at a decent pacing. Overall this one is a recommendable adventure game with some replayability as there are different endings to get, depending on three values (Wealth, Spycraft, Skills).

Its an average game, the story doesn't really get engaging until towards the end. The puzzles are decent, the graphics are meh, but not atrocious. The voice acting is done very well and makes up for any lack of polish the game may have. The main character seems a bit out of touch with reality in some cases. It would make a good stocking stuffer for anyone who enjoys point and click adventures.