Mortville Manor

DOS - 1988

Also available on: Amiga - Amstrad CPC - Atari ST

Alt names	Der Landsitz von Mortville, Le manoir de Mortevielle
Year	1988
Platform	DOS
Released in	United States
Genre	Adventure
Theme	Detective / Mystery, Graphic Adventure, Law enforcement, Puzzle elements
Publisher	Lankhor
Developer	Lankhor
Perspective	1st-Person

4.24 / 5 - 17 votes

Download 512 KB

Play in your browser

Description of Mortville Manor

Mortville Manor is an excellent and highly underrated murder mystery game from French developer Lankhor.

Aside from offering a solid plot, the game introduces many features to adventure genre, most notably random factors (that, like the board game Clue!, leads to a different culprit each time you play) and digitized voices (which sound better than Access Software's "RealSound" technology used in Mean Streets, which came out after this game). You played Jerome Lange, a private detective who is tasked with investigating a murder that occurred in a remote manor. Your job, naturally, is to interrogate all potential suspects and go through their possessions to find clues and evidence.

Random factors give the game replayability unseen in other games: the killer's identity changes each time you played. Although the mystery takes only about 2-3 hours to solve, the random element keeps replay value high, and solid writing makes the game much more interesting than Clue!. Like most great murder mystery games, almost everyone has something to hide and motive to kill the victim, and therefore it is fun to reduce the possibilities one by one until you figure out the killer.

Since the PC version was never released in English, I decided to upload the Atari ST version (which has better graphics and voices) instead. Recommended for fans of adventure / detective games.

Review By HOTUD

External links

Captures and Snapshots

Comments and reviews

↑ ↓

Catoptric 2022-04-15 1 point Atari ST version

Atari ST is FRENCH. Even the files in the zip have spelling is French, and it has (FR).

↑ ↓

alemon 2022-01-21 0 point

one of the best adventure games played on QL

↑ ↓

DIM 2022-01-19 1 point Amiga version

Robotic monotone English voices with a French accent don't work. With no subtitle feature, it makes it difficult to enjoy.

↑ ↓

FR 2021-11-29 0 point DOS version

DOS version in French only.

↑ ↓

Bonzosuperdog 2018-11-10 1 point

Played this on Sinclaire QL circa 1988

Write a comment

Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Mortville Manor, read the abandonware guide first!

Download Mortville Manor

We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. Also, we try to upload manuals and extra documentation when possible. If you have additional files to contribute or have the game in another language, please contact us!