The Witness (aka Invitation To Murder) is a video game published in 1983 on DOS by Infocom, Inc. It's an adventure game, set in a detective / mystery, interactive fiction and interwar themes, and was also released on Mac, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit and Apple II. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world. Key features: Newly added Steam Cloud support Save your in-progress game to the cloud, then play where you left off from on any Steam connected computer. Forgiving yet challenging gameplay: Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. 38 Games Like The Witness for Mac. The Witness is a puzzle adventure game, experienced in the first-person view. The player, as an unnamed character, finds himself on an island with numerous structures and natural formations. The island is divided into ten sections arranged around a mountain that represents the ultimate goal for the player.

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The Witness

DOS - 1983

Also available on: Mac - Commodore 64 - Amstrad CPC - Atari 8-bit - Apple II

Description of The Witness

The year, 1938. The place, Los Angeles. A wealthy but paranoid man has asked you, a police detective, for protection. But despite everything you do, the man is killed. Can you find who killed Freeman Linder?

The Witness was Infocom's second detective adventure after Deadline, and anyone who is frustrated with that game's extremely high difficulty level will be happy to know that The Witness is much easier and more straightforward. Unfortunately, it is also less fun to play. The good news is that the parser is much better than 1982's Deadline. The game now understands a wider range of synonyms. But there isn't much you would need to blame the parson on: the game is not hard at all, as the plot develops quickly and it is not difficult to just 'stumble' upon the murderer. That is not to say you wouldn't need to do any investigative work in the game; the clues are just more obvious and there are fewer 'trigger events' that you must witness to finish the game.

The plot in The Witness is well thought-out, but the writing is not as atmospheric as Deadline, although the game still does a good job of evoking the feel of the 1930's. Fortunately, the NPCs in the game are very well designed, each imbued with a wide range of actions and reactions that will entertain you long after you have already solved the game.

Overall, The Witness is another solid Infocom game. It is much easier than Deadline, making it a a good intermediate-level game somewhere between Moonmist and Deadline. It may not be Infocom's best work, but it is still better than most other mystery games in Infocom's canon, including Suspect and Moonmist. Recommended!

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Comments and reviews

Divarin2020-06-290 point Apple II version

The Apple II version doesn't seem to want to save.

admin2014-12-080 point DOS version

File was broken, I replaced it, thx !

Questor2014-12-060 point DOS version

How do I run this in DosBox? It's only a .dat file.

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DOS Version

Mac Version

• Year:1984
• Publisher:Infocom, Inc.
• Developer:Infocom, Inc.

Commodore 64 Version

• Year:1983
• Publisher:Infocom, Inc.
• Developer:Infocom, Inc.

Amstrad CPC Version

• Year:1986
• Publisher:Infocom, Inc.
• Developer:Infocom, Inc.

Atari 8-bit ROM

• Year:1983
• Publisher:Infocom, Inc.
• Developer:Infocom, Inc.

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Apple II Version

• Year:1983
• Publisher:Infocom, Inc.
• Developer:Infocom, Inc.

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