Agatha Christie: Peril at End House - PC Game

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Krueger's Review - December 11, 2007 - View all my reviews (19)

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Agatha Christie: Peril at End House

Interactive adaptations of Agatha Christie's beloved murder-mysteries have ranged from good (And Then There Were None) to great (Death on the Nile). Well, fans of these casual games will be pleased to know the latest adventure - Agatha Christie: Peril at End House - is the best yet, providing many hours of seek-and-find fun on your PC.

You must help Poirot with this task by searching for clues, meeting suspects and most of all, searching for items in more than two dozen locations (spread out between four main areas: End House, Majestic Hotel, Nursing Home and Town). If you get stuck you can access a few limited hints, which reveals where an item is in the scene.

Unlike most other seek-and-find games, Peril at End House cleverly weaves in clues and other plot-related puzzles into each scene - not to mention the look and music are relevant for this story and time period, too - such as finding pieces of a newspaper which, when put together, reveals a clue or realizing it's a man's shoe that left a grease footprint in a garage. Hmm.

Players will also have specific tasks in each level, such as finding six toys and placing them in a beach basket or finding the letters to spell E-N-D H-O-U-S-E and putting them on a sign in the correct sequence. Some levels have animated objects, too, such as a mouse you need to find, who reveals itself briefly before scurrying off into the corner.

The only issue with this game is some very hard to find items, such as a shark swimming underwater (you need to click on its exposed fin) or some confusing items to find, including a "watering can," but when I clicked on what looked exactly like a watering can turned out to be the wrong item.

Minor niggles aside, fans of these kinds of games will no doubt find this to download to be of the best in the genre. Its pick-up-and-play accessibility, beautiful presentation, engaging story and great puzzles all make Agatha Christie: Peril at End House perfect for armchair sleuths.

This review has an average score of 4.6 - Based on 20 ratings
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diamondchic's Review - December 7, 2007

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BEST !

I have been waiting for the this after playing Death On The Nile. This is certainly one of the best game ever! Well worth the time and money! Hope they make more games like this !

This review has an average score of 4.5 - Based on 6 ratings
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JessieMacMillan's Review - December 19, 2007 - View all my reviews (6)

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Fun & Clever!

I'm a fan of seek-and-find games but there are so many of them now that some of them seem mundane. Peril at End House, however, is gorgeous to look at, fun to play, and never boring. I even like the sound, which I usually mute. The puzzles between "investigations" are almost all different and all are clever; they provide a nice break from the seek-and-find action.

This review has an average score of 4.2 - Based on 9 ratings
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