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About the StoryYou're guilty until proven innocent. Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown License: Commercial Development System: ZIL
Referenced in Sergeant Guffy's Day, by TheDefiant |
Editorial Reviews
SPAG
The puzzles are generally well done, but it suffers from a lack of vividness, and a lack of feeling that you're really there. [...] All in all though, Suspect remains a very solid effort, and well worth a play through.
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SynTax
This type of Infocom can be really frustrating and I know a number of players who get bored with the gameplay. The reason is that it is tempting to ask characters about others and to try to follow suspects about and this approach gets nowhere. If you follow Veronica your path is blocked until the murder has taken place, so you need a different strategy. [...] This is an old style Infocom which is text-only with no hint facility, but I wish they still made them this way.
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A costume-party murder mystery with timed events, February 3, 2016Suspect is an Infocom mystery game. It resembles Deadline more than Witness or Ballyhoo. You are at a party with a large crowd of people, and you are set up for the murder of the hostess.
This game features a large number of NPCs with independent actions. You have to figure out who committed the murder, and we, and who helped them.
Overall, it seemed difficult, but I just used a walkthrough after playing around a bit. I don't enjoy replaying long games over and over, (except for Adventure and Zork I, where you really just need to optimize your lantern use). The story was fun, and I enjoyed the feelies.
The game does give you clues on the actions you need to perform, usually by seeing something happen and saying to yourself "Oh! If I had done such and such EARLIER, I would have been fine!"
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Recommended Lists
Suspect appears in the following Recommended Lists:Favorite Fours From Industrious Implementors, 1G by Walter Sandsquish
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Polls
The following polls include votes for Suspect:I'm looking for mysteries. by MCCLUTCH32
I like a game with a good story, good puzzles that aren't too difficult to understand and a good mystery. I was thinking more along the lines of horror, but murder mysteries work as well.
Cool Murder Mystery/Detective Games by Christopher Caesar
Hey everybody. I am looking for a murder mystery text game. I finished An Act of Murder a while ago and want to play more games like that, where to get to solve the murder yourself. If you could tell me some of your recommendations that...
NPCs with agency by OverThinking
I'm looking for the most-developed "AI" characters—people with goals, who can move around and complete tasks whether or not the player character is there to see them or tell them what to do. People with memories and personalities, who...
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