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Across three historical eras, plan a murder, plant evidence against another character, and talk your way past the authorities.
Released 10 May 2016
Frame a Suspect
Plant Evidence
Choose Murder Weapons
Getting away with murder has never been easy. These three members of a proud and noble family are separated by five centuries, but have in common a vengeful and murderous intent. Plans must be formed, blood must be spilled and evidence must be planted ...
Developed by Pilgrim Adventures · Published by GrabTheGames, WhisperGames
The game follows three members of the Bruce family in separate historical scenarios: a 15th-century English castle, a Wild West saloon, and a Victorian-era estate. In each, you play a character intent on murder and on shifting suspicion to someone else.
Explore each setting and speak with its inhabitants to learn about their relationships, motives, and secrets. Choose a weapon, decide whom to frame, plant evidence, and carry out your plan.
Afterward, answer the authorities' questions using what you learned and the story you have prepared. Choices affect suspicion and can lead to different endings, while multiple scenarios and possible plans invite replaying to try other outcomes.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its unusual reversal of a murder mystery, where success depends on planning a crime and framing someone else. Reviewers also appreciate experimenting with weapons, evidence, and dialogue across its scenarios and endings. Others find that the exact choices required can make this feel like trial and error, and that repeated dialogue and runs become tedious.
The Deed is a game in which you must commit a murder and then, through a process of making the right choices and planting the appropriate evidence, convince the authorities of your innocence and somebody else's guilt. The stand-alone expansion Dynasty offers three new scenarios based on this original concept.
Taking place in three different eras, each of these new scenarios allows you to explore the sordid ancestry of the Bruce family as you take control of a character who aims to commit a murder and escape free of suspicion by framing one of the other characters in the game. You will explore a 15th century English castle and a wild west frontier saloon, before finally returning to Dunshiel House fifty years prior to the events of the original game.
Just as in The Deed, every decision you make can influence the outcome and lead to one of many possible endings, which are even more varied and numerous this time. There are many ways to do the deed, multiple pieces of evidence to use to your advantage and a wide selection of characters to frame for your crime.
Explore the Setting
This expansion aims to provide richer and more varied environments which immerse the player in the various historical time periods of the game, whether it's Medieval England under the reign of Henry IV, a violent frontier town in the Old West or a grand old estate in the Victorian era.
Meet the Characters
Each scenario contains a number of non-player characters, some of whom are based on real historical figures, and almost all of whom can be framed for the murder. The conversation system has been developed and improved, offering a greater amount of control for the player and more branching options which will lead to a more unique experience every time.
Choose the Murder Weapon
Choose from various murder weapons appropriate to the time period in which you find yourself, whether it's a medieval greatsword, a pair of household scissors or a good old-fashioned six-shooter. Figure out which method of murder is likely to point towards a character other than yourself.
Plant the Evidence
Items of evidence can be used in multiple ways to raise the suspicion of the authorities. Think carefully about which piece of evidence could be used to frame which characters, depending on where you plant it.
Face the Authorities
There's no question that the stakes are higher this time. Life in prison is one thing - but what about finding yourself on the headsman's block or strung up at the gallows for a grisly public execution?
Life could be brutal in the olden times, and so could the death of a convicted criminal. Can you manage to do the deed while also avoiding such a terrible fate?
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 53 |
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| Controller required | No |
