[STEAM] This murder mystery sudoku might be my new puzzle game obsession

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The aptly titled Murdoku ditches numbers and regular boxes for object-filled rooms and ******* mysteries with various clues to help you figure out the identity of the killer. It’s a ton of fun.

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There’s something dodgy about the shed. Screenshot by Destructoid If you have ever had any experience with variant sudoku, you know how many interesting takes exist on the classic sudoku game formula. (Funnily enough, there is one called “killer sudoku,” which has nothing to do with ******* mysteries but is instead about various sum totals in predetermined “cages” in the grid.) In Murdoku, most of the classic formula is ditched in favor of a ******* mystery puzzle, but enough elements remain to still make it recognizable as a delightful formula.

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to place each of the suspects and the victim on the grid—one person per row and per column, as classic sudoku rules imply—in accordance with the various clues you’re given and the physical limitations of the rooms and the various pieces of furniture scattered about the place.

The experience reminds me of the classic

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, also known as Einstein’s Puzzle, where you are given a series of statements and tasked to form a full relationship grid between houses, their color, the nationality of their occupants, the drink they drink, the cigarettes they smoke, and the pets they keep. The suspects and the victims in Murdoku remain mere ciphers, of course—so don’t expect them to replace your Agatha Christie tea time reading—but it’s an understandable limitation on a genuinely fantastic puzzle experience.

While I do have some small gripes with the interface, and the furnishings-based clutter can get a bit too much by the later, harder challenges, teasing out the “break-in” of the logic puzzles is nothing short of delightful, and if you’re looking for a way to cosplay as Sherlock Holmes or any of his compatriots this weekend, you could do worse than giving Murdoku a try

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. And best of all, there are book-based versions as well for you to check out.



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