Murder Mystery Adventure Reviews

What we have here is a game so bad it's good. Good: The manor is very pretty. The central game design is fine because it's Cludo. There's nothing new or novel here. Bad: Oh man. The Manor Layout has no logical functions. In order to get to the kitchen, you have to go through the dinning room on the third floor, then out a door in back and down two flights of stairs. Some of the graphics clip. The errors are made more hilarious by how serious things are supposed to be, like a cyberpunk guy and red-ninja girl in an 1800's murder mystery. Honestly, the Bad is the draw of the game. The Ugly: O_O No quality of life options. You cannot skip cut scenes, there are long one way hallways that are easy to accidentally click, and even if you turn down the volume in Windows Mixer, it does NOTHING. Unless you have a flavor for bad media, skip this one. But if you do, this game gets funnier the more you think about it.

This game was a complete disappointment. I played one mini game for at least an hour to get lock picks that didn't even work. There is no inventory to allow you to see that you actually received them. I feel like I wasted an entire evening trying to play a beautiful game that doesn't work as it should.

Murder Mystery Adventure is a game inspired by the game board game clue, where you try to solve a murder (duh). Story: You come across a mysterious mansion where inside you find that a murder has been committed and you need to figure who is the killer. Yep, that's about all that you get for the story, you can talk to the suspects which will give a detail which you log as evidence, but that's about it, which is incredibly disappointing for a MURDER MYSTERY. Graphics: Graphics wise, Murder Mystery Adventure is probably the only saving grace and even then, the game is not that good looking. First of all is something that caught me off guard immediately is how most of the so called "suspects" don't look like they belong in their own game. One woman looks like she jumped out of an anime, one looks she has come from Victorian London, another looks like she just got done serving beer in Oktoberfest. It's just a mish mash of character the developers seemingly found and put them together. When I first started playing, I was quite surprised by how well the mansion looks, but quickly that turned into anger, because I noticed how a lot of the items blend in with the walls and floors of the mansion. It's randomly generated, but it honestly feels like the important items will spawn in the room where it will be impossible to see. Audio: The audio design (if you can call it that) is just bland music, which for me at least got so draining that I muted it completely, which is something I very rarely do, so you know it's bad. There's not much sound effects, apart from you stomping from one room to the next and with just the stomping around it's just eerily quiet. Gameplay: Murder Mystery Adventure is basically a point and click adventure game, where you collect evidence, by solving puzzles and looking for items. The basic goal of yours is to find what items was used as the murder weapons, who is lying to you and in what room was the murder committed. You do this by exploring the mansion by every inch and talking to the suspects. At the start of your run it randomly generates the person that killed the owner of the mansion, so you can't really look up a walktrough to help you to look for items and stuff and this quickly becomes one of the biggest problems of the game. First of all the movement is so, so slow. It sometimes takes upwards to 30 seconds to go from place to place. Since the game is played mostly on rails, you usually have to click on the place you want to go for your character to move and then he will start moving there. But it only really takes a single click and you can easily misclick and then you're force to watch a 30 second cutscene of you walking. I already talked about how the items blend into the environment, but at some points it gets to the point where I was almost driven insane. In my playthrough I found who killed the guy and what weapon was used, but I needed to find the location where he was killed and you do this by looking for blood splatters. It took me roughly 30 minutes of going from room to room and looking into walls and floors like an absolute moron looking for a bloodstain, but as soon as I was going to call it, I found the splatter on a red carpet, which perfectly blended the colors, except when you slightly shift your head which glitched the stain upwards which was almost impossible to see. The puzzles are also more annoying than fun. One of them forces you to play a card game whose AI is insanely difficult and you have to win against him 4 times to get a crucial item you need to get evidence and while not as annoying, some of the other puzzles are just as bad. Verdict: Murder Mystery Adventure is a great concept with an absolutely dreadful execution and it makes the game a painful experience to go through once and that replay value with random set ups is not appealing to me. It's roughly 30 minutes per single run, but if you get a run like I did, you can get stuck for almost up to 2 hours. Just go play Clue and don't waste money on this. Final Rating: 1/10 Pros: N/A Cons: - Movement is insanely slow - Items blend into the environments so well, that it makes them impossible to see - Music is dreadful - Puzzle design is awful If you liked this review please consider following our groups and curator pages at https://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog and https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ImperialReviews

I got this for my wife. She loves any games where you have to solve puzzles. This sounded like the game for her, but she really did not like it. This game is basically a dumbed down version of Clue. She thought it was boring, not challenging, and made her motion sick due to the first person view. She said the first person wouldn't have been an issue except that anytime the player moves from one room to the other the transitions are unneccesarily long and the turns are fast. In fact, my wife had only "found" about 1/2 the items/people, when she was so sick that she just guessed at the person/place/weapon to end the game. And she guessed it right! My wife said even though it was only a couple of bucks, it was a waste of time and money. I wouldn't get this if I were you.