Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases
Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases
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Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case
Developer Blazing Griffin
Hercule Poirot is back in a brand-new adventure, set in the heart of London. From the Steam store page
186 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
50
Mixed
64 positive · 63 negative
95% range 42–59%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 64 | 63 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 0 | 52 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
70 of 136 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
50% recommend · 64 yes, 63 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 127 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (172 of 304 positive).
Many players find the game buggy and clunky, with pathing issues and missing animations. [1][2][3] Several players recommend buying on sale due to short length and lack of polish. [4][5][6]
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- [3]
After finishing the London Case, I don't recommend this particular title. After playing this developer's previous entry in the series, Which I thought was decent, but needed some polish, I was excited for their second story. Unfortunately, this feels like the rough draft for the previous game. There are lots of bugs, and the mechanics feel less tuned than the previous game. I had multiple issues. The most common was …
- [15]
As someone who’s spent years playing across just about every genre—RPGs, point-and-click adventures, immersive sims, narrative indies, hardcore puzzlers, I always look forward to a good detective game. The genre has so much potential: layered mysteries, satisfying deductions, clever twists that make you feel like the smartest person in the room. Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The London Case has moments where it …
- [16]
I'm rating this game positive since I'm a fanboy of Poirot and I genuinely had fun playing it, however there are quite a few issues and "mixed" rating would probably be deserved. In general TLC plays very similarly to the previous title with some changes here and there. In my review of the first game I said it had potential and it was a good foundation to build upon. Sadly after finishing the sequel I don't see any …
- [5]
After the awesome 'First Cases' game, unfortunately this one falls quite short. There is a sense that things were rushed here - typos, bugs in the worst form of characters and objects disappearing from locations during conversations/interactions, and the level of 'holding your hand' through puzzles was a bit too much. This felt like Poirot for beginners and, aside from a couple of achievements, it was fairly simple …
- [1]
Pros - Decent voice acting - Graphics are nice, good lighting lots of details - Entirely playable with mouse - Poirot is as fiesty as ever. - Story was okay but takes along time to get going. Cons - My game suffered this weird graphical artifact that kind of looks like screen tearing but I think its something probably in relation to the anti-aliasing. Its like a weird blurly scan line. The effect is lessened by …
Summarised from 34 of the 184 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm rating this game positive since I'm a fanboy of Poirot and I genuinely had fun playing it, however there are quite a few issues and "mixed" rating would probably be deserved. In general TLC plays very similarly to the previous title with some changes here and there. In my review of the first game I said it had potential and it was a good foundation to build upon. Sadly after finishing the sequel I don't see any meaningful progress. I feel like the developers listened to the feedback and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Logical thinking shall always prevail Another game starring our beloved detective Hercule Poirot. The London Case is exclusively written by Blazing Griffin Studio, and is the continuation of the previous game, The First Case. The story starts on a ship where, of course, an incident happens, and a young lady had her cigarette box stolen, and Poirot stepped in to help, along with Hastings, whom he had met for the first time. Later, when they arrived in London and attended the gala, a valuable…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who enjoyed the previous Hercule Poirot games, this was a big disappointment. It was far too short (my time is a few hours longer than I actually spent playing due to my having a nap and leaving the game running) and really boring. The characters looked like they were from an old game though the backgrounds were nice. One area - Theatre Square - was very annoying to visit since you had to slowly walk down the street and then back down it every time. I genuinely did not care about the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After finishing the London Case, I don't recommend this particular title. After playing this developer's previous entry in the series, Which I thought was decent, but needed some polish, I was excited for their second story. Unfortunately, this feels like the rough draft for the previous game. There are lots of bugs, and the mechanics feel less tuned than the previous game. I had multiple issues. The most common was pathing failures.Poirot would routinely run into other people or get caught…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Naive as I was, I hoped the developers would have used this second installment to fix the (many) rookie mistakes from Hercule Poirot: The First Cases, starting with the totally arbitrary and absurd connections we were supposed to find between the different clues. Unfortunately, it only takes 30 minutes to realize that nothing has changed, and we're forced to brute-force the game right from the prologue, linking both contradictory and identical clues. Luckily, these games were part of a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this. A huge fan of murder mysteries, Poirot and Adventure games, the first game was a decent enough game albeit with some mechanical flaws and a story that was just shy of admittedly High agatha christie standards. The sequel, however, could be summed up in one word - clunky. It feels like 20 years of refinement of the genre has been undone, with the game playing as awkwardly as bad point & click from the mid nineties. Movement is incredibly slow, talking to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the total percentage score for this game is unjustified as there are certainly worse games than this one, however this game is a tad mediocre. Take the first game, The First Cases, apply a new lick of paint and characters, and remove interrogations, and you have The London Case. The story is fine but, coupled with the repetitive gameplay, the whole experience is a bit bland and I was never really gripped, but I was happy to play on. On the plus side, I did not encounter a single bug…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A new city. A new case. A new partner.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have decided to start writing this review at the start of Chapter 5 while my complaints are fresh in my mind. I honestly thought I could give this the "only play this if you don't play full price for it" but I can't even give it that. Keep in mind, I have played all the Agatha Christie installments up to this point. The pros: - Visually pleasing - A fresh "scroll wheel to look around" mechanic to mix things up a bit - A new "find object and use here" system that the previous games never had.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The locations in the game are all very well crafted and beautiful. The rest of the game is... bad. The animations are very limited, The camera just cuts away from any "action" scene and many important things are skipped or happen offscreen. The mechanics are very clunky. The mindmaps are... extremely bad and unintuitive. Overall it feels like a game where 80% of the budget was spent on art.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please do not buy this game. the only reason i played it through was to see the whole story. i would not have been able to beat the game without a guide as often in the game it is not clear how to procide and you are left guessing. It is not well made . pretty much every part of the game has glitches and there is multiple time where the logic behind the puzzles doesn't make sense . it also spoils some of the plot by telling you ahead of time seemingly by mistake. lots of other things wrong with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who’s spent years playing across just about every genre—RPGs, point-and-click adventures, immersive sims, narrative indies, hardcore puzzlers, I always look forward to a good detective game. The genre has so much potential: layered mysteries, satisfying deductions, clever twists that make you feel like the smartest person in the room. Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The London Case has moments where it flirts with that potential… but unfortunately, it never quite gets there. Let’s…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the worst Agatha Christie games. Terrible controls, slow story, puzzles are too easy. Just plain bad. The first cases and the one made by Microids, Murder on the Orient Express are better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/] With 1,400+ reviews, make sure to follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more! Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Mary Magdalene, a valuable picture, has just been sold and will be the main exhibit at a Gala that will take place in a London Museum. You, Mr. Hercule Poirot, will be in charge of the transportation and security of the artwork during its voyage. Mr…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been eating & sleeping so much at my mom's place, it's so relaxing 😌 Also the Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot games by Microids are awesome mystery games, I'm glad I have something new to play with my mom since Nancy Drew kicked the bucket basically
positive · AI labelView post →Pros - Decent voice acting - Graphics are nice, good lighting lots of details - Entirely playable with mouse - Poirot is as fiesty as ever. - Story was okay but takes along time to get going. Cons - My game suffered this weird graphical artifact that kind of looks like screen tearing but I think its something probably in relation to the anti-aliasing. Its like a weird blurly scan line. The effect is lessened by lowering the graphics preset. I didn't see any difference in fidelity by lowering…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Point and click story game about one of the most famous detective Hercule Poirot...this game is a direct sequel to The First Cases. Controls feels a bit more better compared to first game and also the little grey cells connections are a bit more simplified and much easier unlike previous game where you just had way to many clues and felt impossible to solve them. Graphics feels a bit more better than first cases at least in my opinion..characters feels a bit more alive and better shaped. In…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sorry to say that this game is not worth any amount of money at all, even if you buy it on steep discount as many reviewers advise, which I did, for $5.99. The makers of this game should be paying people to play it to help them work out its many flaws. The story meanders back and forth pointlessly without any build and without any excitement or emotional payoffs. It lurches from scene to scene totally aimlessly, with Poirot going on unfounded wild goose chases for no apparent reason which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a huge fan of the series I am devastated to give my very first negative review on Steam. Dev team, I am so sorry, but I have to be honest. Let me break down the reasons for that. Firstly, I know I would have enjoyed this game, have I not started with First Cases which was miles better than this. TL/DR: buy this game at a discount and start with this part, then go to First Cases. That way you might have a better experience. So let's get into details: This game is actually the sequel to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: short and easy but too buggy for comfort. The game at its core is ...fine. Not great, not terrible. A little weaker than the previous one: The First Cases but also feels more ambitious, with more varied environments than TFC's house in the prologue and a single mansion for the entire rest of the game. The game overall is short. My playtime of under 7 hours already includes my replaying one chapter to investigate a sequence break I ran into earlier, and replaying the better part of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story was enjoyable enough however I found this entry to be far buggier than its predecessor. Pathing, animations, cut scenes that didn't trigger their completion. Voice acting I found to be delightfully done. The game's complexity, light to maybe moderate. Seemed easier than the first. I would recommend the game but only for having something to do whilst you wait for another game to release. That isn't meant to be as harsh as it sounds. It was an ok game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As I really enjoyed playing the previous game "the first cases", I kind of expected the same joy from "the london case". But I really disappointed now after finishing this game, because the character's motions have some bugs like keeping walking on the same point not stopping, and mouse-clicking points are unstable to find some evidences by myself (anyway, I succeeded to find them out, though). And I faced multi-endings playing "the first cases", but "the london case" has only lineal story-line…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey together, another review by me on the "Poirot-Series"... Sadly i have to say, it´s way not at the height as "ABC-Murders" was and is - and this was a very low-budget-project too though... They pushed everything into the gfx, forgetting about the mechanics, "the red line" and with it the story-flow... Sad to say, that a "black-screen-issue" still resists, even after multiple call-outs to the devs. 6h on and dont want to continue to play. Thank you, but no thank you!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is SLOW to play. Not like a slow-paced mystery thriller; just terrible slow controls and UI. Unlike First Cases, this title features (and requires the use of) rotating camera, but it rotates slowly AND you can't rotate it while the character is moving. Character walks around slowly. Text - you guessed it - has a slow text crawl that can't be disabled, even slower than the spoken dialogue and is sometimes skippable and sometimes not, encouraging you to hammer the space bar hoping to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't finished the game yet but so far it has been a pleasure to play. Solid Poirot style gameplay like the predecessor with about the same amount of jank. Those games look like plastic so don't expect AAAA level graphics. The mindmap deduction mechanic is back and it's still a nice way of combining thoughts that takes the place of usual inventory puzzles in adventure games. If you liked the previous game, this one will be probably also good for you. If not then look elsewhere for an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 690: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆☆☆ (6/10) Huh, I'm a big fan of the Agatha Christie games, jank and all, so I was hoping for more of the same. However, The London Cases just feels like a step backward. It's short, slow, clunky, and honestly pretty boring. The locations look nice, and the voice acting is good, but I struggled to care about anything else. I got to Chapter 4 out of 9, put the game down to play something else, and I honestly don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#BookSky #BookChallenge for August: 31 series that you’ve read or want to read, one per day. 28 Aug : Agatha Christie- Hercule Poirot
neutral · AI labelView post →The reviews that are most valuable to any individual player probably have more to do whether you share an interest in the same type of games, so I’ll start with the type of gamer that I am. I love story-rich games, ideally where I can make real choices that impact game play or solve a crime, etc. Open-world action RPGs (think lots of side quests & talking NPCs) or interactive novels/FMVs make up a large portion of my game library. Summary: This game could have been better, but I still enjoyed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Plenty of bugs, non-intuitive steps, altogether a poorly executed game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A stark step backwards from its predecessor, Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. I bought this on the strength of that game which I loved and while Poirot's voice actor makes a welcome return, the awful animations let him and everyone else down. Instead of the lovely character art in the dialogue boxes we got last time, we get characters staring blankly into space, lip movements not syncing with what's been spoken (or not moving at all), characters sometimes not even appearing on the screen when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game builds on the design ideas of its predecessor, The First Cases, but drops the ball in a few key areas. The mind map puzzles are handled less elegantly and the old conversation battles we got in the last game are gone. There are a few places toward the end where your dialogue options matter, but not to the same degree as breaking through someone's defenses to get more info out of them. Additionally the old portraits that would display while talking to someone are gone too. In the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall - If you're a fan of "The First Cases," you MIGHT enjoy this one, but it's definitely the weaker of the two by a wide margin. I beat the entire game because I'm a fan of the series, but yeah, it leaves a lot to be desired. A solid "Meh..." Cons - It's just booooooring. - Nothing about it makes you feel like you're actually in London. - The fast travel back and forth between places does get pretty monotonous after a while. - Minor Bugs. Nothing game breaking. - I miss the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the awesome 'First Cases' game, unfortunately this one falls quite short. There is a sense that things were rushed here - typos, bugs in the worst form of characters and objects disappearing from locations during conversations/interactions, and the level of 'holding your hand' through puzzles was a bit too much. This felt like Poirot for beginners and, aside from a couple of achievements, it was fairly simple to get the majority. I am still giving this a thumbs up for the story and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the case of the game is intriguing, it was unfortunately, not substantial enough to carry the entire game. Compared to "The ABC Murders" and "The First Cases" it only took a fraction of the time to complete the game (7.5 hours). Furthermore, the game still doesn't have consequences for incorrect deductions so you can just click through the options until you reach the right conclusion. (The Sherlock Holmes games actually allow you to draw the wrong conclusion and arrest an innocent…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems to have been created by people who understand neither computer games nor detective stories. It's not an interesting story by Christie standards and it's not fun to play. Deduction games are tricky because it has to be challenging to pair the right clues but still fair--they totally missed the mark on this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game they released before this one and after this one had controls that were more smooth. The clunkiness of the movements in this one really takes away from the playability. Buy all the other Poirot games though, they're worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Free eBook! The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot investigates a seaside murder filled with secrets, deception, and a brilliantly unexpected twist in this classic early Agatha Christie mystery. booklyn.xyz/product/the-... #FreeBooks #eBooks #KindleBooks #AgathaChristie #Mystery
neutral · AI labelView post →New CWR post: The Mystery of the Blue Train, a kid's book version of the Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery. Fun! comicsworthreading.com/2025/10/25/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Even before Moffat there was House, also inspired by Holmes and also based on the "asshole genius" trope. But still a good point. So...maybe Agatha Christie? Hercule Poirot was an insufferable dick in the books as well...
neutral · AI labelView post →🇬🇧 English first | 🇺🇦 Українська нижче 🇺🇦 ⬇️ Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The London Case is another game about the famous detective, a direct sequel to 2021’s Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. But what I liked in the first game made me dislike this one. This is once again an interactive story with no real puzzles — just a couple of safes with easy codes found nearby. Solving the case was honestly boring: you just click through all interaction points and talk to the suspects again and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Step back comparing to the previous one. Many bugs, non-intuitive riddles, imprecise controls.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good puzzles, sometimes finding clues was more of a random-click-til-you-hit-the-right-spot. Character motivations worthy of a Christie novel
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neutral · AI labelView post →Oh my god, what a mess. I have no idea how we concluded who the thief is, though there were signs, but missing motivation etc...I didn't mind the crappy game mechanics, the lame graphics, but an extremely dumb story is not OK for a detective game...and this so far has been a total mess - and an uninteresting one. This is even worse than the Early Cases and incomparably worse than the ABC Murders...I'll try to finish the game, but the motivation is getting lower and lower with every minute spent…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It absolutely pains me to say to disregard this game, but it was dull, plodding, and buggy. Nothing in this made me think, "Yes, this is a younger, post-Belgian police Poirot." When my irritation resulted in a actual swearing fit and I was EXTREMELY glad to 100% it so I'll never have to play it again... yeah, I can't say I didn't give it a chance. Oh, and Hastings was just insulting. Yes, he was written as Christie's representation of the everyman and/or the reader, but here it's like he's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am stuck in Irene's apartment, I have checked multiple guides to make sure I am not missing anything and I am meant to be able to leave her apartment and then come back up to continue the investigation. So idk if anyone else has had to deal with this bug but its quite frustrating to be quite literally stuck due to a bug and unable to continue the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The setting in London had potential, but the overall experience felt slow and a bit repetitive. The investigations and dialogue sections dragged at times, and I did not feel very invested in the mystery. The gameplay and pacing made it hard for me to stay engaged. I would only recommend it to dedicated fans of detective games, but it was not for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I usually love the AC games, but this one fell short. It's clunky and confusing in both the storylines and the overall animation and rigging. It's the least charming of the games available, and I truly struggled to push through the entirety of the game. The mindmap, which is known to confuse people in the best of the games, was horribly plot out in this one. Many of the correlations were messy and a stretch to connect while others made little sense at all. The characters were all unsettling to…
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neutral · AI labelView post →Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (Steam) I enjoyed the ABC murders one so I grabbed this one on sale
positive · AI labelView post →There is a bug in chapter 7 and I'm unable to go any further without restarting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls were awful and the storyline was not great. Short also
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story was fairly lacking. There really wasn't much in the way of suspense and intrigue. I wasn't particularly attached to any of the characters, and I honestly found Poirot to be a little unlikable in this game. Mostly, I found myself just wanting to finish the game and be done. I've played several agatha christie games and some sherlock holmes games, and I rarely found myself just waiting to be done. One of the main problems is how repetitive everything is. You have about 6 or 7 small…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll start with the technical stuff first. - the game runs well, even on the best graphic settings. - audio is okay but i sometimes felt like the voice over was done by AI, there were so many weird pronunciations! - the animation is ... meh. people often don't even open their mouths while talking, if they do it's just open and shut, no more detailed movements. other expressions are raised eyebrows at max and i think poirot smiled once or so. - there are a few graphic bugs in there too, missing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn’t help myself. These are the Nintendo Switch games I ended up buying… - Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo Limited Edition - Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot: The London Case - Ghost Song So much for meditative games 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Congratulations to Blazing Griffin for winning the award for Best Large-Budget Game for Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case at the Scottish Games Awards! We are proud to have worked with them on such a terrific game. #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →This was so disappointing. I have loved all of the other Microids Poirot games that I have played, but this was so bad that it was unplayable. I'm sad to be leaving a negative review, but I really cannot recommend that anyone purchases this game. It is glitchy and clunky. The writing is incredibly boring and the dialogue makes such little sense that I would not be surprised if I learned that this used AI. The other games in this series that I have played were all enjoyable, but I cannot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun, I like that it includes nods to the previous entry. Found some changes to be a bit strange, like rotating the stages rather than zooming in and out. Also had some difficulty with some sections as it was very unclear what the game wanted me to do, especially when first discovering i could access a fast travel system. Not as good as ABC or First Cases, but still neat
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay feels clunky and I can't get in to the story like previous Christie games
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