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This is a cheap but kind of fun "hidden object" style mystery game on the PC. Mostly harmless fun of the "click on a picture to find objects on a list" variety with a few other puzzles thrown in. Each of the murders introduces a suspect (Chapman, Sickert, Gull, HRH Prince Eddy and Druit) with a variety of clues presented to you by "Mac" Macnaughten. Then you select your prime suspect based on the evidence you found and get told if you chose the most likely suspect or not.
The plot is heavily railroaded to the "Royal Conspiracy" so don't expect actual facts to stretch beyond the bare bones and some crime scene photos that look little like the scenes you scour for fish, saxaphones, knives and cheese during the "investigation". It takes roughly one hour to play, followed by several hours of fuming "least likely my hairy bum! He is the only one still given serious credence in such and such a book..."
Strangely though the picture puzzles are fun and all, it was let down by a) not being much like the description on the box, and b) outclassed by the ZX Spectrum game of my youth that had the same idea but randomly generated who the Ripper was each time you played so the clues changed each time. *Sigh* Buy one of the Sherlock Holmes games if you want a "proper" detective game of interviewing suspects and putting together clues. Or Phoenix Wright Ace Attourney if you have a Nintendo handy.
The plot is heavily railroaded to the "Royal Conspiracy" so don't expect actual facts to stretch beyond the bare bones and some crime scene photos that look little like the scenes you scour for fish, saxaphones, knives and cheese during the "investigation". It takes roughly one hour to play, followed by several hours of fuming "least likely my hairy bum! He is the only one still given serious credence in such and such a book..."
Strangely though the picture puzzles are fun and all, it was let down by a) not being much like the description on the box, and b) outclassed by the ZX Spectrum game of my youth that had the same idea but randomly generated who the Ripper was each time you played so the clues changed each time. *Sigh* Buy one of the Sherlock Holmes games if you want a "proper" detective game of interviewing suspects and putting together clues. Or Phoenix Wright Ace Attourney if you have a Nintendo handy.