Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion Download PC

A Boston Herald reviewer called the game "difficult" and "frustrating": "Fortunately for cheaters like me, help is available on the Web". According to the Arlington Heights, Illinois Daily Herald, it "has an online hint system".

Gameplay

Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion is a first-person, 3D-perspective, point-and-click adventure game with gameplay typical of the genre, totaling about 20 hours. It "plays like a traditional CD-ROM adventure game with a mystery theme". The game is controlled with a mouse, with its pointer changing when the player can perform an action, grab an object or walk around. Selecting a character calls up a notebook with a list of questions to ask. They are checked off and new topics appear as the conversation progresses. The main menu accesses suspect biographies and game options, saving and loading. Inventory can be manipulated (or inspected) at the bottom of the screen, and a clue option gives novice players hints. Puzzles include riddles and abstract challenges to obtain gems, a maze, and limited inventory-based puzzles. The game requires the player to interview suspects to gain insight into solving puzzles, which reveal vital objects or clues.

Plot

The game is set on New Year's Eve 1938, when the player is invited aboard the Rhine Maiden yacht for a trip to the mountaintop retreat of eccentric and mysterious German millionaire Ian Masque to see his collection of Egyptian artifacts. Masque meets his fate from a poisoned puzzle box, and the player is tasked with finding the murderer. The game's plot includes an Egyptian curse and Nazi spy rings.

yline plays out in four acts in three settings (in a castle, aboard the Rhine Maiden and on a cable car). New characters join the original cast of six characters. The game has a cliffhanger ending, which led players to expect a sequel.