Confidential
Killings

Confidential Killings is a point-and-click deduction game where you play a detective piecing together the deaths of Hollywood's elite to reveal a sinister conspiracy. Play is deliberately pared back and sees you clicking on items to collect word clues, then using them to complete sentences and solve each murder. It stands out for this more guided approach to puzzle-solving, enabling the hard-boiled detective-noir narrative to take centre-stage.

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You play a detective during the heyday of New Hollywood in the 1970s, and find yourself investigating a string of deaths of famous actors, writers, and producers. Play involves clicking on and reading the description of different items at each scene, then clicking on the underlined words to add them to your list. You then use these words in your notebook to fill out the blanks in each sentence, piecing together what happened.

As you progress from scene to scene, you discover connections that link the deaths together to reveal a mysterious conspiracy. The scenes themselves also get more complex, with more clues and sentences to complete. If you make a mistake, you can simply look at the clue again and change the words you've used, without having to start again or lose any progress.

The result is a game that's simple to play by design, offering an interactive detective story that reveals a shadowy underbelly at the heart of Hollywood. Learning the details of each new scene is good fun, and discovering the threads that connect each crime makes for a deeply engaging narrative.

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Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Confidential Killings 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 5 days ago.