Game Description:
Calling all seek and find fiends - The biggest selling novelist in history is back with another spine tingling challenge for Hercule Poirot and his faithful companion Hastings. Set on the beautiful Cornish coast, there has always been an air of evil at End House and with three attempts on our heroine Nick Buckley`s life in as many days, it is up to the famous Poirot to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Game size: 59.6 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

Interactive adaptations of Agatha Christie's beloved murder-mysteries have ranged from good (And Then There Were None) to great (Death on the Nile). Well, fans of these casual games will be pleased to know the latest adventure - Agatha Christie: Peril at End House - is the best yet, providing many hours of seek-and-find fun on your PC.

Similar to the popular Death on the Nile hidden object game, Agatha Christie: Peril at End House takes a 75 year-old novel and challenges players to solve the whodunit by playing through dozens of fun puzzles. If the story is unfamiliar to you, Nick Buckley is the last in a long line of Buckleys living at End House, a huge but isolated estate overlooking the cliffs of St. Loo. After a handful of attempts on Nick's life, the famous Belgian detective Poirot steps in to find out who the killer is and unravel their motives before it's too late.

You can help Poirot with this task by searching for clues, meeting suspects and most of all, searching for items in more than two dozen locations (spread out between four main areas: End House, Majestic Hotel, Nursing Home and Town). Similar to other seek-and-find puzzles, players are presented with a scene, such as a room or an outdoor location, and must find all the listed items along the side of the screen, be it a golf club, cat, statue, chess piece or bicycle. Once you find the item on the screen you click it, which then crosses the item off the list; you must find all the items within a predetermined amount of time. If you get stuck you can access a few limited hints, which reveals where an item is in the scene. Click on the wrong item too many times and you'll be penalized with 30 seconds taken off the clock.
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Review from: Just Adventure

Seventy-five years after its initial publication, the Queen of Crime’s seventh novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has made its debut in another medium: the casual game. Again under the direction of masterful writer and game designer Jane Jensen, Oberon Games has created an entirely unique casual mystery adventure. The product varies from its predecessor, Death on the Nile, but is nevertheless a solid and entertaining detective experience.

Playing as Poirot, you and your loyal compatriot, Captain Hastings, arrive on the Cornish coast for a week of rest and relaxation. Your vacation, however, is soon interrupted when a young woman is shot at. She later introduces herself as Magdala “Nick” Buckley, the owner of End House, and reveals that this latest incident is one of many “accidents” that have befallen her recently and threatened her life. Naturally, Poirot takes it upon himself to investigate the truth.

Your main task is to search each room of the house (and surrounding area) for clues. Each investigation consists of three to five locations to peruse, and there are ten items to search for in each room. Yes, this game is of the I Spy variety that seems to be sweeping the casual game world these days. However, there is more to it than that. Some of the objects you find are actually clues to the mystery, and they are stored in the Evidence Room after you uncover them so that you can refer back to them later when you are trying to solve the case. If you are having trouble, though, you get five hints per investigation -- so don’t get too frustrated, because if you start clicking randomly, the game will remove thirty seconds from your twenty-five minute time limit...
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Review from: Minut Gamer

I was quite enamored with the first Flood Light Games’ Agatha Christie game, Death on the Nile. To be frank, enamored wouldn’t be quite the word - I loved it. I’ve also played it too many times to be productive in my other endeavors. It was a seriously groundbreaking hidden object game. It had puzzles, it had adventure elements, it was detailed, well-drawn, and it was everything a hidden object game ought to be. I’ll also never forget that it came first.

Peril At End House is a bit of a mixed disappointment, in that regard. It does a lot of things right - 1024 x 768 resolution that runs smooth as silk, lovely classical style music in the background, unobtrusive sound effects, a puzzle in every room. However, it suffers from a lack of innovation. I guess the problem is mostly me (as will be for other gamers who has played the first game) and I’m expecting too much. Instead of getting something new, I’m getting more of the same. While this isn’t necessarily unwelcome, the time between the last game and this one led me to believe that there would be more.
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Review from: IT Expressions

The latest addition to the growing list of hidden object games is Agatha Christie Peril at End House. This game is based on the popular Agatha Christie novels and of course has that effervescent character, Hercule Poirot doing the detective work again.

With his trusty companion Hastings, you and Hercule need to unravel the mystery of who is trying to kill Nick Buckley...
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Review from: absolutist

The story of End house begins as Hercule Poirot meets a nice lady, Miss Nick Buckley. She turns out to be the owner of End House.

As you start the game itself and solve the hidden-object tasks you get more and more clues that make it clear that the lady is in danger of being killed. New clues give you more information about the suspects and the situation itself. Step by step you search through the whole house and other places that get you to solving the mystery.

The hidden object tasks are quite usual. You get the list of items to find on the screen. Before each screen you get a map of the place and are shown the places and the number of the items you are to find in each one of them.
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