Suspect

This is a tremendous game, and I seriously warn you not to go anywhere near it unless you want to spend Christmas at the keyboard.

On the whole, Suspect is probably the perfect link between the short & easy Witness and the complicated & hard Deadline. It even makes the whole 'not much time' scenario more plausible than the other two. And much more than most games of the genre, it succeeds in creating a believable small world which seems to work by its own rules and doesn't just passively react to the actions of the player. Prepare yourself for an entertaining and thrilling ride!

The puzzles are generally well done, but it suffers from a lack of vividness, and a lack of feeling that you're really there. This problem afflicted some of Infocom's earlier efforts, and their early mysteries in particular.