
Murder in the Abbey
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Company: Alcachofa Soft
Release Date: Aug 26 2008
Genre: Adventure
Murder In The Abbey (released in some countries as The Abbey) is an adventure video game developed by the Spanish studio Alcachofa Soft and released in 2008. The game is inspired by the 1987 title La Abadía del Crimen. The majority of the gameplay involves interrogating monks using the standard gameplay of a detective-themed adventure game. In addition players collect an inventory of useful items and have to complete logic puzzles. The game has a 3D-character-in-2D-backdrop art environment. The game is set in the Middle Ages and its storyline is inspired by the historical 1980 murder mystery novel The Name of the Rose. When a monk named Leonardo of Toledo is ordered to deliver the young Bruno to the Nuestra Señora de la Natividad Abbey for study with the local monks a "dark dastardly murder interferes with this kiddie drop-off".