Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy - PC Games

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This adventure game, despite being released in 2003, felt more like something out of 1993. It had Myst-like graphics and controls making it woefully dated.

The biggest issue, however, is that despite being branded a "Sherlock Holmes" game it simply doesn't feel like it. There's no character here - the protagonist might as well be Bob Smith for all they use the environment and char... read more

Description: The Mystery of the Mummy was inspired by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You play Sherlock Holmes in first person perspective in this standard point-and-click adventure game. Lord Montcalfe, a well-known Egyptologist, is missing, believed by the police to have committed suicide. His daughter, Elisabeth, insists that he is still alive and calls upon her fiance's cousin, Sherlock Holmes, to prove her theories. Arriving at the manor, Holmes finds that Lord Montcalfe was suffering from a deep paranoia. It seems he had made a terrible mistake and triggered what he believed to be a mummy's curse. Trying The Mystery of the Mummy was inspired by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You play Sherlock Holmes in first person perspective in this standard point-and-click adventure game.

Lord Montcalfe, a well-known Egyptologist, is missing, believed by the police to have committed suicide. His daughter, Elisabeth, insists that he is still alive and calls upon her fiance's cousin, Sherlock Holmes, to prove her theories. Arriving at the manor, Holmes finds that Lord Montcalfe was suffering from a deep paranoia. It seems he had made a terrible mistake and triggered what he believed to be a mummy's curse. Trying to shield himself and others from that curse, he had booby trapped his own home with elaborate locks, some of which were designed to kill anyone who tried to tamper with them.

Holmes investigates mostly in solitary fashion without the aid of his normal sidekick, Watson. Other people in the game appear only in the cut-scenes. Puzzles become more difficult as the story progesses. Find illusive inventory objects and read many documents for clues as you search the secret passages and elaborately decorated rooms of the Montcalfe Manor. ... (more) (less)