Victorian Detective Interlude by peter123

You're a great detective living in Victorian London. Your internal monologue will guide you by clicking on links in the body of text as you investigate three past cases.

Your eidetic memory is represented by your ability to reread all the story you've experienced...

Your intensely fast analyzing ability is represented by your unlimited time between choices...

Your vast knowledge is represented by the internet...

London needs you!

Please comment and rate my games, and if you enjoy the Victorian Detective series I would be happy if you voted on which game you thought was the best. Follow the link below to vote.

http://strawpoll.me/6505661

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Review TheVampurr

26 Jan 2023

This is a really good addition to the series! It's unique compared to the others.

Review enigmity

15 Dec 2021

So much thought and care went into these. Loved the classical music choices alongside. Thanks for sharing!

Review hsh

17 Jul 2020

Good game.

Review Savio

21 Jun 2020

Unlock the bonus story

Review klaushargreeves

07 Apr 2020

I loved these games so much. They're amazing. Please, PLEASE update them-- I would kill to see more of these.

Review Buttertea

15 Feb 2020

The host is effed up, isn't it? By keeping 'forgetting' / 'not responding' to the choices made. And it's not just this Adventure.

Comment m6868

12 Jun 2019

Is this the 2nd one in the series?

Comment OnlyGirlMonsterH3R3

13 Jan 2019

This is great! In Salad Days, I got 5 for warm-blooded and 5 for cold-blooded. But how to save your progress?

Review WarriorsSN

27 Jun 2018

i liked it, tho im not good, i did not get the point of this game, but keep it up

Review PanicPlanet2000

21 May 2018

Love It. Keep Up The Series!!

Review Ekyn24

26 Apr 2018

Good game. Challenging with its riddles, but gave out enough hints for us to figure out the answers. It's like reading a mini short series. It is quite well made. My compliments to the author and creator.

Comment KJPUAQ

20 Mar 2018

This was such a wonderful story. Good job!

Review Stripes

05 Jan 2018

Okay, so, this is the first Victorian Detective story I've read. I must say, this is probably the best thing I've read on this site as of writing this! Dark but quirky, relying on well-known detective story tropes but creating its own identity, this was truly a great story. The puzzles were very fun, and while some were difficult, they never felt unfair. The characters weren't too awfully developed, with the possible exception of some of the suspects, but the story didn't seem very character-driven anyway. The choices you made didn't affect the story very much, but they didn't have to. This was more of a story to be told, not a story for the reader to create on their own. And there's nothing wrong with that. Overall, very nicely done. I'll be reading the other Victorian Detective stories soon.

Review ThunderHenry

03 Jan 2018

I played this game until I got deductionist because I was so entranced. 5 stars! Please make more.

Comment Broadhark

02 Jan 2018

Is there a way to keep track of custom attributes of the player in the gamebook mode?

Comment AlexInSantiago

08 Oct 2017

Anyone is playing this game on an iPhone? Unfortunately, I do not see how I can save a game. While on my Mac desktop computer I do see the save button, on the top of the screen, I do not have this save button when playing on my iPhone.

Any hints how to save games on iPhone?

Review nammyal

26 Sep 2017

Really enjoyed salad days

Review The Rookie 523

25 Sep 2017

Amazing first Victorian Detective game I have played and I look forward to playing the rest of them. 5 Stars

Review rocket680

16 Sep 2017

This one was the best, by far that I've ever played

Comment Salamander

10 Sep 2017

I'm sorry but I didn't get answer for case 1..who killed him?the maid or the gardener or his wife?

Review niklasalden

25 Jul 2017

I hope you make more games! Really enjoyed this one.

Review GameofChocolate

20 Jul 2017

*clap clap clap* Very well done! I approve!

Great script-writing, awesome story, good plot, and great decision making opportunities. I loved it!

Review Nightshade323

13 Jul 2017

The entire Victorian Detective series has a plot that is so well written that it would probably be greatly appreciated if it were turned into a book. No, seriously, have you ever considered that? The amount of time and effort that you put into these is very clear through the precise details and amazing plot. Great job.

Review pendares

23 Jun 2017

just awesome!!!!

Review Sizniche

17 Apr 2017

As usual, Victorian Detective never fails to get you thinking.

Comment AlexZ0nder

14 Feb 2017

I would like to say it was awesome! Especially I liked the Salad Days because it's easy to read and more looks like an adventure. But I also wanted to say, that I never knew about such thing as text adventures and I found it only from one one audio podcast. So now it's the second site for me where I could train my English skills with my pleasure.
Many thanks and I wish you long life to you and your stories!

Review rosethorn08

16 Jan 2017

This was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the mystery in the second one, when chasing the masked villain. I had the right train of thought for the answer but I missed it :/ Anyways I also really enjoyed the bonus story and think that you have done a great job with all your games. I hope you make more!

P.S. Although I really liked this game, I didn't rate it as my favorite on the strawpoll. That was mostly due to frustration over the typed in answers, which I swear I got wrong three different times when I typed in the right answer.

Review WrightWorth

06 Jan 2017

I felt that the interlude was better than the traditional games. I felt that it had more character and I could define it through the non-scored choices. Chunking the game into three different episodes also gave it a faster pace.

Review Loaf

25 Nov 2016

masterful and subtly deceptive... brilliant work

Review MrClaudioCosta

22 Nov 2016

Simply Beautiful

Review kitnkabootle

07 Aug 2016

Perfect. The typed answers did not work in my browser, but this was fixed when I downloaded it and played it through Quest. Great job! The best series on this site, imho.

Review You Can't stump the Trump

27 Jul 2016

I thought it was a solid interlude, so I've gotta say good job,

Review Reccho

28 Jun 2016

Interesting break from the series

Review Mason123

10 Jun 2016

Loved the first three but this just didn't do it for me. The parts where you have to type in an answer felt too removed from the usual MO, and a lot of the time I typed in the answer, was told it was wrong, and then was told that the correct answer was actually the exact thing I typed in. Hoping you make another Victorian Detective (full) game and that it's a bit more traditional than this one, because something about the design of this one put me off a bit

Review Mango art

08 Jun 2016

Wow. You never seize to amaze me.

Comment peter123

28 Feb 2016

boychester,

I added a command by using a few scripts. First,

get input
-set counter "answer" to expression "result"
-if game.answer = "Here's where you put the correct answer"
--then move player to page A
-else
--then move player to page B

If that doesn't make sense, here's an example of what the code view in quest would look like.

Say the game says, "What is 2+2?"

SetCounter ("answer", result)
if (game.answer="4") {
MovePlayer (A)
}
else {
MovePlayer (B)
}

Comment boychester

27 Feb 2016

How did you add a command system when it was a gamebook?

Comment peter123

21 Jan 2016

Thank you for the reviews. I'm glad you like my games.

If you want to contact me feel free to email me at [email protected]

Review maisonhawke

20 Jan 2016

Peter, sir, I am totally and completely in love with your work. I do so hope you read this and we talk, for I wish to ask advice of you, being an aspiring writer myself... Anyways, the point is; it was amazing. Your writing style always manages to immerse me into the story and just make me live through it. I wouldn't hesitate to pay you for more for The Victorian Detective series, for it is truly one of the best writings I've ever come upon.

Review Staraxia

17 Jan 2016

I just can't get enough of these games XD

Review TakingFlyte

11 Jan 2016

Yet another Victorian Detective game well done. :)

Comment XanMag

11 Jan 2016

Nice short little stories as an addition to the others. I liked it although I was a little miffed about the last one... I swear I answered those questions correctly, even after re-reading it. Oh well. I'm sure I missed something. I was 5 and 5 in the bonus game. Another job well done!