Discworld Noir

Description

This is Ankh-Morpork, a city surrounded by darkness, where the cold river Ankh flows, where it is always raining, and where dwarves and trolls co-exist with mysterious societies, religious fanatics, stupid police captains, and bar pianists. It is also where a bitterly sarcastic sharp-eyed PI Lewton tries to earn a living solving bizarre cases. A mysterious woman named Carlotta hires him to find her lost lover. Wandering through the dark city and gathering evidence, Lewton has to solve the case, confront a sinister conspiracy, and once again become torn between love and despair.

"Discworld Noir" differs from other Discworld games not only because of its much more serious tone and dark Film Noir-style atmosphere, but also because of its gameplay. Instead of inventory-based puzzles there are clues, which Lewton writes down in his notebook and which should be then used whenever there is a connection between the clue and the situation in question.

Part of the Following Groups

• Discworld universe
• Literature-inspired games
• Werewolf-inspired games

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User Reviews

It's a film noir with dwarves and trolls. Any more questions?	Windows	Unicorn B. Lynx (60141)
Very good, if derivative and cliched, adventure.	Windows	Shazbut (155)
Dark, atmospheric and ironically funny	Windows	curacao (247)
You can't just go around killing people whenever you want to. It's not polite.	Windows	Jeanne (58316)
Innovatively Uninteresting	Windows	MAT (35183)
An interesting Trilogy	Windows	Hilary Richardson (16)
Decent game with bad interface	Windows	Kurt Sample (975)

The Press Says

PC Zone	Windows	Aug 13, 2001	9 out of 10	90
Quandary	Windows	Aug, 1999		90
WomenGamers.com	Windows	Jun 29, 2000	8.5 out of 10	85
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Jul, 1999	82 out of 100	82
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1999	82 out of 100	82
JeuxVideoPC.com	Windows	Dec 07, 2003	16 out of 20	80
Adventure Classic Gaming	Windows	Sep 16, 1999	4 out of 5	80
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	Sep 02, 1999		80
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation	Apr 27, 2000	13 out of 20	65
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Windows	Mar 25, 2005		40

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Trivia

There are plenty of references to famous noir films in Discworld Noir. Many of them allude to the classic Casablanca. For example, the game's romantic ending mirrors the ending of the film to the point of directly quoting the dialogue. Just as the heroes of the movie agree that they will "always have Paris", Lewton assures Ilsa that they will "always have Pseudopolis Hotel".

The demon pianist Samael is named after Sam, the pianist from Casablanca. There is the following dialogue in the game:
Lewton: Play it again, Sam.
Samael: You know what? No one's ever going to believe you said that.
As fans of the movie would know, the line "Play it again, Sam" was never actually said in Casablanca, but has become erroneously associated with it.

Ilsa Varberg is named after Ilsa Lund, the heroine of Casablanca. Lund and Varberg are both cities in Sweden.