Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders

Agatha Christie’s A.B.C Murders tells the story of Captain Hastings and Hercule Poirot as they attempt to solve a series of bizarre murders committed by an elusive madman. Going off the simple clue of the…

66 9 November 2009

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Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is an adventure developed by Black Lantern Studios, released 9 November 2009 on Nintendo DS.

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What Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is an adventure game developed by Black Lantern Studios and released in 2009. It was published by DreamCatcher Interactive. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Agatha Christie’s A.B.C Murders tells the story of Captain Hastings and Hercule Poirot as they attempt to solve a series of bizarre murders committed by an elusive madman. Going off the simple clue of the A.B.C railway guide left at the scene of each crime, Hastings and Poirot follow the leads to Andover, Bexhill, Churston, and Doncaster trying to apprehend the killer before the next crime is committed.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are mystery. 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 eighth of 16 entries we hold in the Agatha Christie series. The next entry was Agatha Christie: 4:50 from Paddington in 2010. Its critic score of 66 is almost exactly the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile at 84.

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How it was received

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

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.

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What it launched against

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders launched on 9 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders gameplay screenshot

Quick answers

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders — frequently asked questions

When did Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders come out?

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders was released on 9 November 2009 for Nintendo DS.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders?

At minimum, Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders needs AMD/Intel dual-core processor running at 2.2 GHz, 2048 MB RAM, ATI/NVIDIA dedicated/integrated or mobile graphic card, with at least 512MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least Shader Model 4.0 support graphics.

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