Sleuth (video game)

Sleuth is a text-based "whodunit" video game created by Eric N. Miller of Norland Software (now defunct).

[1][2][3][4][5] The player can move the character using the arrow keys, and interact with persons and objects (after locating the magnifying glass located randomly in one of the rooms) by issuing commands (from a fairly limited vocabulary list) at the game's prompt (similar to Sierra's "Quest" games).

[1][2][3][4][5] The player can do this by examining different objects in the game, talking to the occupants and observing their behavior.

The game is made challenging by the fact that the player has to keep track of everyone's stories and also can only question people once or twice before the murderer becomes suspicious.

[1][2][3][4][5] The game can be run on Mac with the use of the freeware program "boxer", and has been cloned in JavaScript, enabling users to play it in a web browser.