Murder in the Arctic Circle

A pretty place to hide a crime

Red fishing cabins, mirror-calm water, mountains rising straight out of the sea. Nothing about it looks dangerous, and that is the problem.

Murder in the Arctic Circle is a point-and-click photography, exploration and mystery adventure. Five friends came to Norway. One of them is dead. The twist is the setting: you walk through real photographs of Norway, taken on location.

“The sun is still up and nobody can sleep. Everyone has noticed. Nobody wants to talk about it.”The Investigator’s Log

The light that won’t leave

In August the northern evening is long and slow. The sun skims the horizon, the sky turns amber, then blue, and the night never gets truly dark. Drag the clock and watch the same place change.

20:0023:0002:00

Puzzles

Two jigsaw-style photography Puzzles.
One real-video scrubbing puzzle.
Three Boxes With Combination puzzles.
Three Clear Distorted Photo puzzles.
One Mayan Calendar Rotation puzzle.
One Find-The-Differences between photos puzzle.
One brightness/rotation photo editing puzzle.
One Correct Time Clock puzzle.
One password puzzle.
One EXIF photography puzzle.
Three 3D mazes in ancient ruins.
A final chase-with-partner puzzle.

If you are stuck, contact me.

How you solve it

Real photographs

Almost every scene is a real photograph of a real place. You are exploring Norway, not a painting of it.

Question every suspect

Your friends have secrets. People tell different versions of the same fact.

Collect and connect evidence

Find clues, check them against testimony, and build the case .

Photography Puzzles

Learn more about photography by solving puzzles related to actual photography and video scrubbing.

Six Chapters

Each one with a different secret to discover.

Built with Unity, Adventure Creator and Turbo Play

A solo project by a developer who loves the genre.

About Michael

I’ve loved adventure games since 1990. I’m a low-level C++ developer for audio, image and video, so for this game I did what I know how to do: I travelled to Norway and photographed it.

Almost every background you see was taken on location, in the same August light you play in. Unity, Adventure Creator and Turbo Play turn those photographs into a mystery you can walk through.

— Michael Chourdakis