[3][4] The entire "season" of the game, Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle, includes six separate episodes.
[5] The Windows version was available to download from online games distribution sites as well as from the official website in November 2010.
[10] The game sees the player investigate murders and interrogate residents in the country village of Little Riddle.
Mother, the head of The Blue Toad Agency, is said to have sent the player to Little Riddle, a village described to be quite peaceful and comfortable.
The player then plays a puzzle to decipher the diary, and learns that the Mayor had been in heated arguments with four people: The Doctor, The Jeweler, The Miller, and The Station Master.
The player then heads to Riddle Manor, where the Constable doesn't allow them to enter through the front, but gives hints that there is an entrance in the back.
At the Police Station, Inspector Bragg seems quite happy to tell the player that he found the items stolen from the Manor.
The player goes to the Post Office and retrieves a letter sent by Mother, opening it (and finding a newspaper clipping inside) in privacy at the pond.
At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Moses was the thief, as when the player visited him, the Prometheus Statue was on his night table.
She also gives the player the names of the four visitors who visited the Town Hall that day: The Colonel, The Doctor, The Librarian, and The Jeweler.
Gossip but is later learned to be her twin sister; at the Library, the Librarian says that she was at the Town Hall to sort out the filing system; the Jeweler states that she was in the archives researching information about a pearl necklace; and the Colonel says that he was "doing a bit of reconnaissance".
The cashier tells the player that someone (wearing a hat pulled down low) was trying to steal a Prometheus statue (one that bears a strong resemblance to the one Moses stole).
In the Hotel, the player looks at the newspaper clipping received from Mother’s letter and notices the photo on the back; it is a portrait of Lady Snobbish's grandmother and grandfather, with the grandmother wearing a familiar pearl necklace and a Prometheus statue set on a table behind the couple.
When the player visits Riddle Manor and asks Lady Snobbish if she sold the pearl necklace, she states that her father took it when he "left".
Since it is now evening, the player sneaks into the archives, where they find an empty paraffin canister and an intact box of matches.
After a brief review of previous events, the Librarian's (whose name is revealed to be Margaret Tess Madding) funeral begins.
Lady Snobbish then says that the man in the portrait is her late husband's grandfather, and as she married into the family, she bears no resemblance.
Gossip and after looking at the photograph found under sacks at the Mill (in Episode 2), she recognizes the woman in the picture as Mrs. Wentworth, the late wife of Moses, and the little boy as Charlie, her son.
Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle received moderately positive to mixed reviews.
"[14] IGN also reviewed the first three episodes of the season with a score of 4.5 out of 10, commenting that "..the execution of the entire affair is poor and even the occasionally clever puzzle fails to entice when the pacing and structure is so frustrating.
"[15] A review in Edge described the game as being "too irritating to satisfy as interactive fiction and too gentle to evoke competition".
[16] Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle has gathered over 250,000 paid PSN downloads as of April 2011.
It scored the game as 7/10 and summed up by saying "There's not a huge amount of challenge, but Blue Toad Murder Files offers an entertaining holiday in a world that's not afraid to poke fun at itself, and you.