In the excellent puzzle strategy game Blue Prince I walked around exploring a mansion while collecting clues and solving puzzles. In the grisly murder mysteries The Case of the Golden Idol and its sequel I solved crimes by collecting words and using them to fill in the blanks.

So I'm pretty happy right now because I'm getting to do both of those things in first-person mystery puzzle game The Seance of Blake Manor . As a detective in the late 1800s investigating a disappearance, I'm walking around a sprawling hotel absolutely packed with potential suspects, solving a bunch of little mysteries Golden Idol-style by collecting verbs and nouns and using them to build sentences that explain my theories.

Delighting me just as much is that it's a real Agatha Christie setup. You're summoned to a

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