The Little Four

This game draws on Agatha Christie’s books, with the main NPC being the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the PC being his good friend Captain Hastings. This is set later than most of the books, and Captain Hastings is now a widower with four children.

Unlike Christie’s usual fare of murder and intrigue, this is a light and pleasant game, more like a walking simulator or coffee shop AU. At all times your next task listed at the top of the screen, only one of which requires any sort of big difficulty. The rest of the game is just ‘chill vibes’, checking out the world, etc.

It’s effective at that. Bolded words draw attention to items of interest. You can talk to each character. I only wished that either the TALK response was more drawn out, or that we could ASK people about each other (of course that would take a lot of writing, so it might not be feasible. A menu conversation could have been fun, too).

The final part of the game involves a mystery, which I found to be a little unfair, but the MC had the exact same issues with it that I did and expressed them, which I found funny.

I’ve read most of the Poirot books (maybe all?) and this was a pleasant place to reminisce about it. I don’t know how someone knew to the characters would react, but I expect they’d find it pleasant as well.