Pollaky’s Agonizing Adventure: Solve a mystery in the Agony Column!

Open Game

The scene is mid-19th century London. The growing metropolis, center of the British Empire, is bustling with trade and commerce. Novels are all the rage and newsvendors line the streets peddling the day’s headlines. In a city of three million, however, not all news is good news. Within the Agony Column of The Times, as it came to be known, lurks the mysteries and sordid dealing of London’s inhabitants in all their illicit intrigue.

In this short, narrative game, you play as a detective for the Metropolitan Police helping to solve the disappearance of a missing girl. Eliza has all but vanished, leaving behind only a trail of clues in The Times and a mother worried sick for the safety of her child. Luckily for her, Ignatius Pollaky – the so-called “real life Sherlock Holmes” – is on the case. Still, time of the essence. Try your hand at solving the case and see if you have what to takes to crack The Ciphers of The Times.