Murder In Tehran's Alleys 1933

pros + good looking and detailed pre rendered graphics + stylistic cutscenes. they are very well made. + easy and fun puzzles (if you don't want to challenge). notebook is very helpful for puzzle solutions and what should you do next. there are also inventory puzzles you can make and distmantle some items. + hotspots are marked to make it easy. No need to hunt for pixels. + story is intriguing. you're an detective and investigating some serial child murders. + background music is good + voice actors speaks persian but they are doing good job. + you can learn many things about İranian culture. cons - the game mechanics and english translation aren't the best. - detective's in game and cut scene appearance doesn't match. - A couple of bugs that affect gameplay Overall this is an decent and typical old school point and click adventure game. i recommended!

This game is hilariously bad. I like the look of it (illustrated realism), but as has been said by every non-Persian player, the translations are godawful. Apparently, the developers released a patch that updated the translations, but apparently Steam didn't get the memo because they are still very bad. Most of the time you can figure out what's being said, but there are some parts where its impossible to know what the hell they are getting at. There are some odd expressions used. When the doctor or fingerprint tech finishes a conversation, they say, "I did my duty." When a clue doesn't pan out, our hero dramatically writes in his diary in big letters, "the end of hope." And he calls everybody soldier when he's trying to be encouraging. And every phrase in the talk selection list has an exclamation point at the end. (Examining the details of the case!!!! Tell what happened!!!) It feels like everyone is shouting all the time in between spitting on everyone with the harsh Persian language. Even in Persian the writing is piss poor. And the translations get worse as the game wears on. Almost like they started to try to fix them and then got bored with it so gave up and let Google tran…

this game deserves a mixed review, and it's pretty shameful that Steam has never made that kind of voting possible. in fact, one should be aware that it's not really a game. there are a few puzzle-like actions, but it is mostly a story you watch and an incomplete one. it has animated novel sequences, and then exploring zones but you're very limited in what you can do or interact with there. the puzzles are pretty basic, and in fact i would mostly remove them and just focus on the visuals and story if i were directing this game. this, and the other games in this series, feel like they want to tell an intriguing story in interesting environments, but without a lot of action (fine, for a point & click) and without the necessary details that would make the story understandable or believable. for a disclaimer, i believe there's a political tie-in to all three games which involves international intrigues involving the Middle East. i'm not offended by that at all, and it interests me to learn about this era from the perspective of those to whom this history properly belongs. but in order for one to make an interesting story or "game", this needs a lot more details fleshed out. mo…

I am going to give a recommendation although I am on the fence with this one. It is very very rough, with quite a collection of bugs and glitches and a translation that is not the best written English around, but the location is unique (though, and I risk it saying this without being from there, I feel a lot of anachronisms going on) and that actually gives a lot of interest to a point n click game that feels, again, like Still Life and Mystery of the Druids mixed together. Music is nice but glitches make that two tunes are playing at the same time. The backgrounds and animations are ok but there are moments where the perspective is lost because the collision is not well designed. The investigation is interesting, though it is weird to have the cutscenes portraying a different main character than the one you have in the normal game. It is barely comfortable to play, but it has TWO hint systems plus the hotspot detection, something I consider really generous and nice. To be completely honest, I would give a more clear recommendation, despite its bugs and translation, if it did not felt so much like a deja vu of so many identical adventures but spoken in Farsi. And this is the real…

Pretty sure this game is like 4 hours long total (judging by the walkthrough I was using lol), except I ran into a bug and couldn't keep playing anymore. Some notes: > Wow is it ever janky af > Mini-puzzles are absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and not related to the general themes of the game. Like, cannot believe I gotta fix someone else's doorbell, solve a Magic Square, and build a makeshift kite to get my job done as a detective. > The setting/time period and historical/cultural flavours are really cool and are honestly the best parts of the game > Soundtrack (it's like 3 songs wide) is repetitive but it's kind of a vibe I would watch a Let's Play of this, but not actually play this lol

Game is very confusing and not fun at all.