Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders
The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. You are the famous private detective Hercule Poirot and, once again, you find yourself up against a…
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is an adventure developed by Artefacts Studio, released 4 February 2016 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 6.5 hrs to finish.
What Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is an adventure game developed by Artefacts Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Anuman. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is a point-and-click detective adventure that casts players as the legendary Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot. Adapting Christie's classic novel, the story begins when Poirot receives taunting letters signed "ABC," each foretelling a murder in a town whose name matches the killer's alphabetical pattern. As the bodies mount, Poirot travels across England to examine crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and piece together clues left in the wake of a cunning and methodical killer. Players must exercise the detective's famous powers of observation and deduction to unmask the culprit before the deadly sequence can continue.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Agatha Christie series
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is the tenth of 16 entries we hold in the Agatha Christie series. It arrived 6 years after Agatha Christie: 4:50 from Paddington. The next entry was Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The First Cases in 2021. Its critic score of 63 is almost exactly the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile at 84.
How it was received
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 2.3 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD/Intel dual-core processor running at 2.2 GHz, 2048 MB RAM and ATI/NVIDIA dedicated/integrated or mobile graphic card, with at least 512MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least Shader Model 4.0 support. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders launched on 4 February 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, SuperHot and XCOM 2. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, SuperHot, XCOM 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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