
AGON: The Mysterious Codex
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Metascore: 73
Company: Private Moon Studios
Release Date: Dec 31 2003
Genre: Adventure
AGON is a series of episodic adventure games for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows by Private Moon Studios. The game uses QuickTime VR-styled panoramas in a first-person camera mode. The game takes place starting in 1903. The player takes the role of Professor Samuel Hunt a cultural historian at the British museum and explores a 3D pre-rendered environment using a 360° field of view and moving between the various locations and interacting with objects and characters by clicking. In AGON the cursor will change to indicate what actions players can take ranging from arrows for movement to a cogwheel for using an object. The player has access to an on-screen dial which can open an inventory and access items; and open files allowing the player to view various documents located in the game. At the end of each episode except episode 1 the player must face a computer-controlled character in a board game and win in order to complete that episode. There is a slight discrepancy of the controls between the episodes; for example in Episode 4 the Files section records conversations whilst documents are stored within the inventory.