Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case

Take the previous chapter and improve it aesthetically, adding the right ideas to make a very good game now much more than good. A precise and refined narrative, together with a cleaning and optimization of the maps as well as the game models, give a certainly interesting quality to this new digital iteration of Hercule Poirot.

Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case is an enjoyable but improvable narrative and adventure game. The biggest shame is that in several respects it is a step backward from the previous chapter, mostly in design and presentation choices. The story is dense with twists and turns and you are always in doubt about the innocence and guilt of all the characters, but the pace at some stages drops a bit too much and the setting does not fully convince.

The London Case is a successful detective story. Linear, relatively short, technically uninteresting. But we still have a case worth to play.

Hercule Poirot: The London Case is a mixed bag for fans of Agatha Christie and adventure games. They will be thrilled to put the little Belgian detective through his paces once again, but the mystery itself doesn’t fully satisfy.

Playing through Hercule Poirot: The London Case can be a reasonably pleasurable experience for fans of Christie's works, as the writers at Blazing Griffin carry the torch with respect. For every area where the game succeeds, however, it features an awkward limitation or stumbling block to match. Not every mystery game can be Return of the Obra Dinn or Screen Rant's 2022 GOTY Pentiment, but it's a bit of a shame that the deductive experience of Nancy Drew titles outdoes the Belgian detective's own process. Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case is another gesture at what a great Poirot game could look like that ultimately misses the mark.