The Last Express 1997

Released: March 1997
Genres: Point-and-click · Puzzle · Adventure
Platforms: PC · iOS · Mac · DOS
Developer: Smoking Car Productions
Publisher: Brøderbund Software
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Is it still worth playing?

Jordan Mechner's 1997 adventure game, set aboard the Orient Express just before the First World War. You play Robert Cath, a young American doctor who joins a friend on the train and is drawn into lies, conspiracies and murder. The train runs on its own clock. Time passes in accelerated real time, and characters follow scripts tied to it, moving between cars, eating and talking. Tasks can often be done in any order, and conversations change with who you speak to and where, while the pause menu rewinds time to fix a mistake. Those people are rotoscoped from filmed actors. A train full of people living on their own schedules, in a short game, still makes it worth replaying today.