Murdered: Soul Suspect makes a bold choice right from the start by favoring information over action. It’s unusual to play as a street-smart detective and not have to worry about aiming, reloading, or even how to throw a punch, instead focusing your efforts on stepping back and thinking about your environment. Solving the game’s many mysteries will require patience, thoroughness, observation, and thought – a mixture that works well in service of Murdered‘s excellent story, but one that finds itself at odds with the final chapter of the tale. A few understandable – though regretful – design choices, combined with technical snafus all but destroy Murdered‘s emotional impact as it thunders towards its dramatic conclusion.

An entertaining curiosity, Murdered ends up being a ghost of its own potential.