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.

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It's a film noir with dwarves and trolls. Any more questions?	Unicorn B. Lynx (60517)
Very good, if derivative and cliched, adventure.	Shazbut (155)	unrated
Dark, atmospheric and ironically funny	curacao (247)
You can't just go around killing people whenever you want to. It's not polite.	Jeanne (58434)
Innovatively Uninteresting	MAT (35183)
An interesting Trilogy	Hilary Richardson (16)
Decent game with bad interface	Kurt Sample (975)	unrated

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The Press Says

Aventura y Cía	Aug 29, 2005		100
Game Over Online	Aug 10, 1999	90 out of 100	90
WomenGamers.com	Jun 29, 2000	8.5 out of 10	85
Jeuxvideo.com	Jul 21, 1999	17 out of 20	85
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jul, 1999	82 out of 100	82
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Sep 02, 1999		80
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Jul 29, 1999	80 out of 100	80
JeuxVideoPC.com	Dec 07, 2003	16 out of 20	80
Just Adventure	2004	B	75
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	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.

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