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adventure video game
The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
By King Art Games, released 1 Jan 2013
- Microsoft Windows
- Linux
- macOS
What it is
The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief is a three-chapter crime adventure from King Art Games, combining a whodunit investigation with the risks of a heist story. The plot moves between Paris in 1960 and London and Zurich in 1964. After investigator Nicolas Legrand confronts the master thief known as the Raven, a ruby called one of the Eyes of the Sphinx is stolen from the British Museum, with a raven feather left at the scene. Legrand returns to the case, while Zurich constable Anton Jakob Zellner is drawn into events near a bank vault. The chapters are The Eye of the Sphinx, Ancestry of Lies and A Murder of Ravens. The game includes cinematic scenes and camera angles, optional puzzles and a scoring system. It is single-player and listed for Windows, Linux and macOS, with partial controller support, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing.
What players like, and what they don't
- Three chapters tell the crime story
- Plot spans Paris, London and Zurich
- Optional puzzles and scoring system
- Available on Windows, Linux and macOS
- Single-player only
- Controller support is partial
Who it suits
It suits players looking for a story-focused crime adventure that alternates between investigation and heist elements. Optional puzzles and scoring offer additional challenge for adventure game players.
The Raven links an art theft to a past master thief through a multi-location crime story. Its three chapters combine investigation, heist elements and optional puzzles.
