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Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer
Developer City Interactive S.A.
Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer (Polish: Art of Murder: Klątwa Lalkarza), also known as Art of Murder 2, is an adventure game developed and published by City Interactive and is the second installment in the Art of Murder series. Although it was published by City Interactive in 2008, the American version of the game was not published until 2009. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
72 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Jul 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
66
Fresh
47 positive · 24 negative
95% range 55–76%
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| Steam reviews | 47 | 24 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
1 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
118 of 165 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 72 · most liked firstif there is one word to discribe this game and it's predecessor it's annoying. amost everything needs to be done in a specific order, where items cannot be picked up until you find out you need them. a good example of why this is infuriating is about halfway where you need to fix a tire.i know it needs a patch and i happen to have seen a rubber patch in an area in the game high up. so i use various long pole like items in i inventory which don't work. there are some items that may be of use in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played the Art of Murder games back when they were released, so this was mostly a purchase based on nostalgia. But I like the Point'n'Click Adventure genre, even though the story in this one is a bit basic, it's good for a relaxing evening :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended. This was just challenging enough for me that I was able to keep moving forward staying challenged not getting bored, until I got to the slider puzzel. I hate slider puzzles. This one is a 16 square slider with the correct picture right next to the puzzle but I have not been able to complete it. From what I can tell I am three quarters of the way throught the game or more but may never finish. I did enjoy playing though up to this point, however may never purchase another game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a bad game, until I hit a slider puzzle. Why... WHY are you putting this terrible puzzle format in THIS kind of game?! NOBODY LIKES SLIDER PUZZLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poor rating because of non-creative development. You're just putting this kind of crap in your game so it takes longer to finish. I'd rather have a shorter, QUALITY game, than a crappy long boring one with frustrating puzzles that you can't skip. Lazy programming!!!!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good point & click game. Very nice graphic and adventure. Amazing Art of Murder series.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →crazy good thrift store pull today - BALDUR’S GATE II FOR $5(!!!) and two PC games i’ve never heard of, Black Mirror II and Art of Murder: Hunt For The Puppeteer
unlabelledView post →Thumbs down! This game is the second in the Art of Murder series. It’s not much different from the first game. It’s another disappointing point and click adventure game with really weird moon logic and timed puzzles, but without an instant travel map or even a regular map. There’s also a sliding puzzle, but that didn’t bother me as much as the timed puzzles did.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd say it's the same review for the previous game: classic Point and Click adventure game. the focus here is more investigative about a mysterious murderer who's being chased by the FBI. 1- Graphics: 5/5 Pretty good graphics. I'd argue it has aged pretty well after almost 12 years now. even more beautiful places in this game 2- Story: 3/5 Average story line. you feel like you already saw that dozens of times before. 3- Puzzles: 3/5 sometimes seems pretty illogical. the type where you say to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much better than the first game of the series. Characters and storyline were more engaging and the puzzles were much more appropriate for the story.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best AoM game out there! story wise! If that's not enough then go play "FBI confidential" and come back to this one. If you liked the first, defenately get this one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pros + good looking and detailed pre rendered graphics + when you click to question mark, hotspots is highlighted. No need to hunt for pixels. + well made cut scenes + fast pacing and intriguing serial killer/murder story + decent voice acting + background music and sound effects are good + some puzzles are enjoyable. there are also inventory puzzles you can combine some items and a few timed sequences. + game is long cons - voice overs suddenly cut while characters was talking - Some puzzle…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, somehow that part didn't quite convince me; it was rather mediocre, and the sound just cut out every now and then... I can just barely recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 It's like a couple of 17 year old wrote this game.... I can't really recommend this game, even for a point n click fanatic. This game is clearly made by someone that don't know English. I'm surprised the voice actors didn't try to correct the dialog. There are so many things that I can criticize.... For example: you can't put fuel on lighter "this is just stupid" (she says something similar). But put lighter on fuel.... aaah the lighter is full now... I'm not going to waste more time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's decent, enjoyable mystery but, the paper pieces puzzle, who thought it is a good idea to reset the progress if you do not use an item within a few seconds after completion? there are some moments where a walkthrough comes in handy, coz I was absolutely clueless. I played it years ago, but didn't finish, this time I did finish, it was OK, some puzzles were crazy, story was OK, I wanted more suspects and maybe a better ending, and less backtracking for items you need later and can't pick…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Huge improvement over the previous game. Better interface design. Puzzles are less convoluted, or at least more obvious. The voice acting is much better, specifically in regards to Nicole. The story is a wild trek, but plays fast and loose. Wishing there was more of Nick, but you can't have everything. IDK why this Mulder wannabe is my fav side character, but I adore his weird ex machina ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The music is very good and not annoying. Sound is a bit loud and requires some custom fiddling.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When you write a story, you need to have some idea of what you want the story beats to be. You also, kind of need to be a good writer. This game has a bad writer, one that probably didn’t get through college. The education level might not matter too much when it comes to writing compelling stories, but if you’re doing a detective investigation story, you kind of need to understand logic. Some understanding of dialogue would help as well. This game was written first in, I presume, Polish…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stop this annoying slider puzzles! Espacialy if they are that big! I spend over 1.5 hours on that and I was nothing than frustrated at that point!!! This is the big thing, why u get a negative feedback. The other things are a really boring story, I couldn't really see a plausible connection... And I was also one of the persons, who needed a walkthrough some times, because lot of things had be done in a specific row and you didn't get enough informations for that. And sometimes you need to run…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer" is an ancient game from 2009. It's a whopping 15 years old at the time of this review (although it feels much older). The game lacks support for the typical features of modern gaming PCs, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on contemporary machines. The game looks and feels dated. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an old game. This seems to have be lingering on Steam with an inflated price…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to say yes play this game, especially if you are a fan of point and click mystery games such as Nancy Drew. Sadly, I hit a major bug in the game where a slot machine, that is necessary to win to continue the game, will not pay out even when i have wont multiple times. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and replayed part to get back to this point and it still is bugged. Sadly this means I cannot finish the game and therefore cannot properly recommend it it anyone. Makes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun point and click adventure. It has great soundtrack. A few of the solutions are very dumb, but for the most part it's a great fun. I hate that some of the stuff must be done in a chronological manner. 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So far 8 hours in to the game i do take my time with all games and would never pay money to rush something. As a player of point and click games since the 80s i can say they are still my favourite. The graphics does not even have to be great but when they are its a bonus. Its all about story with games like this. THe inventory and item collaboration is great. The story is compelling and is on par with the Act of murder franchise. So far everything is good and if you find this game on a sale…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer, developed and published by City Interactive S.A., is a traditional point-and-click adventure game that aims to deliver a dark and atmospheric murder mystery in the style of classic detective fiction. It continues the story of FBI agent Nicole Bonnet, who returns to investigate a string of bizarre and gruesome murders that stretch from the streets of New Orleans to the historic districts of Paris and beyond. The victims are all found posed like marionettes,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have already beated the game. Steam did not register my hours of gameplay due to some sort of bug. I have mix feelings with this game do to lack of widescreen support. This game plays like Syberia, except it is a lot harder. Especially the slider puzzle. If you can get the game working you might enjoy the game. But, the game has some lighting issues where it can get too dark, this might be because it has issues with modern graphics cards. I had to turn my brightness setting all the way up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer is quite the mixed bag, as other reviews illustrate. It's tough to even give it regular ratings, as some thing are all over the place, but let's give it a try... Music: 5/5 To put it bluntly, the music sounds like it's ripped straight out of an Artifex Mundi title, and that's not a bad thing. There's enough variation so it doesn't get too repetitive when you're in an area for a long time. Graphics 4/5 There are a lot of different locations in the game,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Hunt for the Puppeteer is a mystery/crime solving game in the old-school point & click genre. I quite enjoyed the game, but have to admit that towards the end I did get a bit frustrated with all the back and forth action. In my opinion, the major flaw with this game is that you cannot pick up useful items until the point in the game where you need to use them, even though you just KNOW that the rope or the rock or the scissors will be needed farther down the line. This was also an issue in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The second installment to the Art of Murder series following FBI investigator Nicole Bonnet. Although the summary implies following the trace of a serial killer, the plot itself gravitates towards a different direction. For someone like me who enjoys a darker sort of mystery, it did leave me disappointed. That's not to say that the story is by any means terrible, it just wasn't what I hoped for. Gameplay-wise, it works much like the first game. Definitely less confusing although you would…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the better ones of these series, has a nice story to it and some decent play hours. Graphics are quite nice and voice acting is also rather ok.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh Art of Murder, you have disappointed me so. Even my immense love for Nicole (she makes me laugh, okay?) could not save this game. While an improvement from the first game in some ways - better animation, the voice acting gets an upgrade (though it's still hilarious and stiff as the genre dictates), and some of the controls are better - overall it's just simply not good. The solutions to puzzles are insane, even for the genre, and Nicole, my love, just does not help you at all. She'll just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game wont launch. freezes up when I try to open. It changes my graphics to very updated settings and my 3070 will just lock it out.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointing series. Supposed to be about crime and the FBI but just a set of random inane puzzles glued together.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer is not yet old enough to vote, but it does behave like a clueless teenager. I like adventure games, but I like ones that don't feel stupid. Here you play an FBI agent on loan to the Paris police because a recent killing is similar to a series of murders back in the states. Insultingly, the French are portrayed as relatively fat and lazy, as they do not do a thorough investigation and refuse to work on the weekend. That said, they have nothing on your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent point-and-click adventure. Some of the puzzle solutions can be opaque and there's issues where you can't pick up items you know you need until certain dialogue options are pressed, so it can get frustrating if you think faster than Nicole. But an interesting case/story that is worth the investment if you're willing to muddle through those irritating instances.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →overall nice game but indeed a guide is needed otherwise the exact sequence of actions is sometimes hard to guess.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game has a lot of problems and steam is not helping
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like the series you will like this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, this game is really good. This makes you really think about solving every piece of event regarding the investigation which makes you go, "Oh, I really need help to solve this one using someone's in-game walkthrough" xD Fret not, you can still solve some without the help from the walkthrough. Good game for those who like detective/action/adventure games. Give it a try, fellas!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 40 minutes in after just finished Art of Murder FBI Part 1. And I stopped to give this game a bad review. The fact that this is not an investigation is disappointing and feels like a miss with the concept of the serial murderer. But that was also the case for the first game. But here is why I had to stop the game and give it a bad review. It does everything to prolong playtime without any real play. This review comes right after I tried to leave my hotel to meet one name Dupree: -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good game. See my reviews of other Art of Murder games, for more detailed review.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nothing is more annoying than when you spend multiple hours on a murder mystery game and then they throw in a random murderer you've never met into the ending. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game slider puzzle was tough
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a great point and click game, the second game in the Art of Murder series. Very interesting story line, but something that was frustrating was combining items in your inventory. Example: if you had both pen and paper in your inventory, and wanted to combine them, the gameplay makes you do it one way, like you could click on the pen to combine it to the paper, but you couldn't click on the paper to apply it to the pen. So that's frustrating. I also wish that there was a bit more dialogue from…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AoM - HftP delivers almost the same as the first game, somewhere a little bit better (dialog interface - you can see when there is no more topics), somewhere a little bit worse (interact interface - like use the key on the motor fails, go closer to the vehicle and then use the key works). If you liked the first one, then you should play this too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →These games are gems of the Point and click genera. I highly recommend you play the first 3 the verdict is still out on the last two as the original team I don't think return for those.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright - I keep coming back to this game. I don't know why, but it calls to me every year. I have played through it 3 times. It is not good - do not get me wrong. But I can't stop returning to it, like an old comfortable sweater. The below is my old review, which I do still stand by. But I don't know, clearly it keeps pulling me back in. I would like to give a shout-out to gameboomers.com for having a guide, literally never would have finished this without it. The 3 of the featured…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love playing Art of Murder! I practice reading and listening English while playing. I enjoy it very much! Thanks the makers for this series!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended for die hard point and click fans only. I found it quite frustrating at times; this game has some really weird logic and tedium to a lot of the puzzles. Much more than the first game IMHO. It just didn't click with me. With that said it still had some nice locations the interface and navigation were all what you'd expect and the voice acting wasn't that bad. Voice direction still kind of weird at times. I thought the story or at least the killers motive was actually quite…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad. good graphics. fun story. Sorta wish that it wasn't so linear.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's more polished than the first entry but still has the annoying problem of you figuring out what items you are going to need long before the game let's you pick them up. As for the story, while the first game had me figuring out who the killer was way before the main characters does, this game has me completely lose the plot by the end. When the game had it's obligatory twist reveal of the real killer, I was just left wondering who was even that guy supposed to be? Seriously did we ever see…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't recommend There are 4 types of riddles in a detective game 1-easy and interesting, ok, we love these games because for us it is just fun 2-easy and boring, we don't play these games 3-difficult and interesting, yes yes yes, give me more 4-difficult and stupid/boring, it is about this game Instead of giving us a normal and interesting game about crimes they give us a stupid game with burdensome puzzles, easy and stupid microtasks and, what is more, their first game was awesome 0/10 I'm…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The plot to this one was super intriguing. I love Point & Click mystery games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is your basic point and click game. If you like point and click games, this is an average one. Some of the puzzles lacked logic. Others required you to go back to talk to a person to ask for an item. It seemed as if the creator tried to extend game play by having you walk back and forth to pick up items only when you needed them. Or to go talk to a character and ask for items or specific things.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wish there were more games like this these days.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slight improvement over the previous game and a little more challenging. Still got it's janky low budgetness and looks more like an early 2000s game than a 2008 one, but pre-rendered backgrounds always have a charm to them. Overall: not bad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first 3 games are very nice: FBI, Hunt, Cards. The other 2 hace too much hidden object puzzles.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some easy going crime story, beautiful graphics, not all too difficult and always fair puzzles (sometimes a bit illogical, but you can still do it trial and error style then), and soundtrack which truly enhances the atmosphere.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game that at times is marginally better than FBI Confidential and at others way better, Hunt for the Puppeteer is still kind of annoying. And it is annoying because most of the ingredients for a good adventure are here: it follows, yet again the same plot as Still Life and yet again it expands to be a globe trotting hunting. There are more videos, there are more observations and at times there are, *gasp*, clues. But at times. Only at times. It is extremely inconsistent, to the point that it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game but it keeps crashing all the time. Not very happy considering i bought it in a bundle pack on sale. Does that mean that the rest of them are gonna crash too then?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too little story, too many hard puzzles. And by hard puzzles, I mean illogical puzzles where the only way to figure them out is to check the walk-through multiple times. Point & click mystery games should have some kind of logic when it comes to puzzle solving. Some puzzles are easy, while others are harder. And then you have the "drop the butter knife in the woods" solution which makes no sense at the time. Despite its opening scenes and good graphics, the gameplay is just bad. Even the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game very intuitive. Great music score and puzzles.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play this type of game to relax and this game fit that criteria for me. I did find some of the puzzles to be difficult to solve as there weren't adequate clues as to their solution which was a bit frustrating. The dialogue can be stiff and at times really unrealistic for the situation. I did feel the graphics were well done and there was a nice atmosphere to the scenes. I would have to agree with a review by Adventure Gamers: "It can be relaxing filler easily played with your brain off but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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