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James Clavell Shogun
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 In this Infocom interactive adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun novel, you play John Blackthorne, the first Englishman to set foot on Japanese soil.

James Patterson : Women's Murder Club : a Darker Shade of Grey

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 A group of female crime investigators has to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a cadet from a prestigious Southern military academy.

Women's Murder Club: A Darker Shade Of Grey is another entry in the casual market penned and designed by Jane Jensen, famous for classic adventures like Gabriel Knight. The game combines elements from the adventure and hidden object genres. Most of the time, the screen shows an interactive location with a tab at the left side. This tab has a portrait of the player character, the hint button that can be used five times per chapter, the notepad listing all the actions and objectives that must be performed to complete the scene, the score points, the inventory with forensic equipment and three buttons to review clues, exit the scene or go to the main menu.

The objective of most locations is to collect evidence by clicking on shimmering spots on the scenery, bringing up an interactive zoom window. Some of these windows are separate puzzles where one of the inventory items has to be used. In other places, the goal is to find several instances of an object.

A recurring puzzle occurs in the forensic lab, where the substances collected from the crime scene have to be analysed on a separate screen. The player has to take specific bottles from a moving shelf, and drip the amount of drops described on the measuring device.

The game has several unique puzzles related to the locations where they are found. For example, in the cemetery the player has to match flowers to tombstones, and in the sports field the player has to sort balls. The puzzles can be skipped with the hint button.

James Patterson : Women's Murder Club : Death in Scarlet

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 Women's Murder Club is a hidden object game that borrows some elements from the adventure genre. The game follows a group of forensic investigators trying to uncover the mystery behind a series of murders.

Besides the standard seek-and-find mechanics, where the objective is to find all the objects listed on a notebook placed on the left side of a cluttered screen, the game also has an inventory and several mini-games. Some of the objects collected are stored in the inventory, to be used on specific situations to solve puzzles.

There's a list of objectives right under the list of objects. They are the normal procedures of criminal investigation, like collecting evidence and interrogating suspects, and must be performed to complete each crime investigation. The crime scenes have the body of the victim, and parts of it can be clicked for closer examination.

Most mini-games or puzzles are unique to their locations. There is no time limit or penalty for clicking on wrong objects, and each stage starts with 5 hints.
 
James Patterson : Women's Murder Club : Twice in a Blue Moon

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 A serial killer starts to recreate in detail the murders of famous old cases like The Boston Strangler and Jack the Ripper, leaving behind a series of notes with riddles and puzzles about his/her identity and the next victim. A group of women investigators starts to search for the murderer, piecing together all the clues with their individual skills to track down and uncover the culprit.

Women's Murder Club: Twice in a Blue Moon is the third entry in a series of hidden object games written and designed by Jane Jensen, the designer behind classic adventure titles like King's Quest VI and Gabriel Knight. The plot is developed through comic book cutscenes shown between each chapter.

As in the previous entries, the game has a combination of adventure and hidden object gameplay mechanics. In the hidden object sections, the objective is to find and click on all the items listed at the left side of the screen, on locations filled with assorted and scattered paraphernalia. In some places, the list is replaced by the silhouettes of the required objects.

Adventure puzzles appear on several scenes, where the player has to use tools or interact with the scenery. Some mini-games take place on a separate screen, where a mechanism of some sort has to be manipulated directly to solve a puzzle. For example, in the course of the game the player has to redirect the flux of a pipeline by turning valves, solve anagrams, reassemble a jigsaw puzzle made of CDs and other similar challenges. In one recurring puzzle, the goal is to decipher and follow a list of clues to cross out streets and avenues on a map with a ruler and a marker, until only the correct location is left out. All the puzzles can be skipped by clicking on the solve button.

When the body of a victim is examined by the forensic character, the cursor becomes one of the available tools, like the ultra-violet light stick, and the player has to use them to uncover all the clues left on the corpse. All the evidence is stored on file folders and journals that can be accessed at any time in the game to review the case. The hint button has five charges per chapter, and shows the exact position of one of the required items.

James Patterson : Women's Murder Club  : Little Black Lies

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 Best-selling author Regina Blacklock fades in and out of consciousness, after coming very close to solving a 35-year old mystery. The single clue left for the police leads them to the Women's Murder Club, and this starts your investigation for the 4th instalment of this PC game franchise.

Women's Murder Club: Little Black Lies plays much the same as the previous games in the Women's Murder Club series. It combines aspects of puzzle games with exploration and hidden object scenes, as well as integrating standalone logic minigames. Whilst some of the graphics contain minor gruesome elements, the graphical style is quite cartoonish as in previous episodes.

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