- Puzzle, Adventure, Action, Thriller
Death on the Nile is an adventure-detective game, offering a fresh twist on Agatha Christie’s famous story. Set in the lively 1970s, play as Hercule Poirot and detective Jane Royce as they solve two connected mysteries. Dive into a journey filled with intrigue, deception, and unexpected revelations.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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ACGSep 2025"Pretty good crimes, enjoyable puzzles, and a nice brainboard to work through your ideas makes a game that works well enough but won't shake the industry."
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Nintendo LifeRoland IngramSep 20258/10With Death on the Nile, Microids Studio Lyon has settled into a great formula for a Poirot adventure: a supporting playable character brings novelty and gives the moustachioed star room to ham it up as a lightly comic persona. Some mildly disjointed pacing and a dozily relaxed speed might put some people off, but if you want the cosy feeling of curling up with a good mystery novel, then this is absolutely the game for you.
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PlayStation LifeStyleTyler TreeseNov 20258/10While it's difficult to adapt a story that people already know so well, Microids has done a great job of making sure that it feels fresh with new characters, plot beats, and an updated setting.
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GameLusterAxel CushingSep 20252/10With Agatha Christie - Death On The Nile, Microids has given us a game which is technically playable. But it requires you to put up with bad writing, generally bad voice acting, and far too much in the way of tedious puzzles to generate any suspense. There are better ways to pass the time.
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EurogamerAlexis OngOct 20253/5Hercule Poirot travels to Egypt, only to get sucked into the politics of someone else's bad romance, but on the bright side, there's a lot of murder.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Microids Studio Lyon
- Publisher
- Microids
- Released
- September 25, 2025
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 7 h rushed · 9 h main story · 12 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.3/10 from 2 ratings.
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