Elsinore is a 2019 point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Golden Glitch for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
[14] In order to convince Hamlet to ally with Ophelia and to have him trust her with his plot, the player must search Queen Gertrude's chambers for evidence that she was not complicit with the murder of her late husband.
The game enlarges Ophelia and Laertes' roles, and adds additional characters such as Othello, and Peter Quince from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
[4] Several characters have also been adapted for the game, making Rosencrantz and Guildenstern female and Ophelia and Laertes are biracial with experience of racial discrimination.
[13] Chironis was inspired to make a Hamlet game by both her high school Shakespeare teacher and from the college writing classes she took at Carnegie Mellon.
[18] By combining the tragedy of the play with the goal of "winning" games, the development team thought they could have a fresh take on Hamlet.
[19] Chironis and Fallon created their company, Golden Glitch, with five others that had been part of the Game Creation Society, and worked on the project during nights and weekends while keeping their day jobs.
The founders received no payment until after the game went on sale, and the team's four contractors were paid from their personal salaries from their other jobs.
[13][23] Her early exit by suicide in the play means that she is uninvolved in much of the action that comes later on, and it gave the development team room to try to make her a stronger character.
[13] The team also decided to make Opheila a woman of color, and created her with the idea that she was of Moorish descent through her mother's line.
Kotaku's Harper Jay noted that the slow pace "wouldn't be for everyone" but felt that if players could make it through it, the game was a worthwhile experience.
[29] US Gamer's Eric Van Allen noted that the waiting periods can "grate" after a while, but that the game was largely successful in creating a positive narrative experience.