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Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series
Developer Zojoi
Déjà Vu is a 1985 point-and-click adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations for the Macintosh as the first entry in the MacVenture series. Set in 1940s Chicago, the story follows detective Ace Harding as he attempts to clear his name and restore his memories after being framed for a murder. It is themed after various hardboiled detective novels and films. Déjà Vu was first released in October 1985. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
63 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 14, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
34 positive · 21 negative
95% range 49–73%
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8 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
46 of 72 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 63 · most liked firstQuick review: If you never played the game before, keep it that way. If you remember playing this game, and really loved it, get it for the wonderful nostalgic value. It hasn't changed in both the best and worst ways possible. Déjà Vu is a pioneer game in the point & click adventure genre, making a visual transition from the classic text based adventures. At the time of it's release, it was groundbreaking in giving players a true visual sense of the items and people they are interacting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every Friday I play Astro Bot with my 4yo daughter, and today, we beat the Alien, saved CPU Kid, rolled credits, and 100% the Déjà Vu Dimension! 🥰 Emotions were high this morning as we finished it, especially with that fake out (thanks for traumatizing my 4yo Asobo lmao) Game #2 beaten for 2026 👇🏻
unlabelledView post →Déjà Vu and all the other MacVenture series games are some of the most entertainingly written adventure games I've played. It doesn't visually depict all of the actions, but instead uses its creative writing to allow you to visualize the events yourself, creating a much more powerful image than what any animation or cutscene could accurately portray. The porting could have done with some polishing, though, as the recreated interface looks very amateurish with its generic font, blank right…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my ongoing and likely futile effort to write a Steam review for every game in my library (#255 out of 612)... it's time for Deja Vu: MacVenture Series. If ever there was an argument for the necessity of remasters, Deja Vu is it. I won't call the game unplayable--it's not, literally speaking, impossible to play: it's just very, very, very difficult to get into. Presumably it would be a bit easier to manage if I were more familiar and/or nostalgic for the first generation or so of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A faithful port of the original, i.e. you're going to mess up without knowing when or how and have to start the whole game over again. Hopefully, you don't miss something important. Also, don't get shoot by the empty gun in the alley.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve recently added a few more adventure game playthroughs to my YouTube channel. Here’s Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! for Mac, one of the first point-and-click adventure games: robotspacer.tv/archive/deja... as well as the sequel, Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas: robotspacer.tv/archive/deja...
unlabelledView post →Grizzlies 127, Timberwolves 125: Déjà Vu for the Minnesota In a game reminiscent of the 2022 playoffs, turnovers, rebounds, and poor late-game offense doomed the Wolves to snap their three-game winning streak. @bennyhughesnba.bsky.social recaps the close game ⤵️ www.canishoopus.com/timberwolves...
unlabelledView post →A repackaged version of the original Deja Vu, brought to us from the MacVenture series of old school games. Personally, I grew up playing this on the NES, so the controls are a little different, but it is the very same game. There isn't a lot I can say other than, I prefer the NES version, because I grew up with it. Deja Vu, would have been better released as a complete remake, with updated graphics, story and more, but for the Nostalgia geek out there, you will find a classic. Unfortunately, I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series is an ancient game from 1985. It's a whopping 39 years old at the time of this review. It predates the internet, it's older than most gamers on Steam. And it's abandonware. It was designed for the original Apple Macintosh (yes that one). Remember "Don't let 1984 be like 1984"? How's that going now? Apple has the biggest walled garden in the world, with the strictest rules. Anyway. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SCORE: 3/10 - AWFUL I got this as a freebie with Shadowgate (2014 version). I remember enjoying Deja Vu as a kid on my 8-bit Nintendo, so I was curious how the Mac version compared. Unfortunately, I didn't have much fun with the Mac version, and it certainly didn't seem like a game that has aged well. It didn't even have any music.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early point/click adventure(the first?) with some adult themes Well the game is set in 1941 Chicago and it has the feel of an old, gangster/detective film. It's a very early point and click adventure, but is different from others in it's allowing you to drag, drop, resize, open and close. It has a very dark, serious, adult feel to it, you're in a dirty city full of crooked, untrustworthy characters, Ace Harding himself appearing to have a skeleton or two in his closet. The graphics are nice,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In Sum: A frustrating adventure game with a good storyline and no replay value, but is overall satisfying. 4/5. An old classic game that has caused a lot of headaches. Deja Vu is the story of Ace Harding, a private detective with amnesia, in a film noir setting. It is a kind of point-and-click adventure, I believe predating games like Maniac Mansion by a few years, and it requires quite a bit of thinking to play. Graphically, it is well-done for the time. There are very few animations,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looking back to games that I used to watch as part of my usual 'Let's Play binge' sessions from way back in the late 2000's and early 2010's goes, the MacVenture games always fascinated my mind to no end as I loved how it presented each of their worlds in a rather impressively detailed (at the time) manner that allowed players to inspect, interact with and roam the game's universe in ways previously unexplored by mostly arcade-like titles at the time. Given how the video game industry has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game faithfully captures the look and sound of the classic Deja Vu: A Nightmare comes true for both the classic Mac and the Apple IIgs. I would have preferred the Windows 3.1 version, but this will do until they decide to somehow include the Windows 3.1 version into this software or as a separate package. Definitely a solid if short game for lateral thinkers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i grew up on the NES versions so for me this sucks. no music. menus make less sense. hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard to play. Hard to figure out basic controls. Frusterated. Liked this one a heck of a lot better on the NES and will continue playing it on that console.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've come to realize I have never been a fan of point-and-click games where one wrong move kills you. I found this tedious. If there is a nostalgia factor for you, it might be worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shadowgate? Like the video game Shadowgate? Like Déjà Vu, Uninvited, and Shadowgate trio?
unlabelledView post →In a way, it’s shame that this hasn’t been remade like Shadowgate. On the other hand, I don’t know if a remake would make Deja Vu good. This doesn’t hold up at all and I’d only recommend it as an antique experience for those interested in old adventure games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favorite death in this game is a tossup between the sewer alligator or the hooker that shoots you and leaves you on the ground where you literally cringe to death knowing you are going to be found without a fresh change of socks and underwear.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've loved this game since I first saw it in Nintendo Power. Very difficult but I love the noir tropes all over this game. REMAKE PLEASE. I'M SERIOUS.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are old enough to have played Déjà Vu in 1985 and your original floppies had long since rotted away somewhere in your basement, you will find this an absolute treat. For anyone else, the interface and inventory handling may prove too clunky to enjoy this 2 hour mystery-crime adventure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →add music some how please
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Faithful emulation of the original.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Adventure video game on the Famicom: 49 titles. On the Super Famicom: 23. Déjà Vu and Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom are among them. One page each. #Famicom #RetroGaming https://chihirory.com/famicom-analysis/en/gen0000009/
unlabelledView post →Not Recommended
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You wake up feeling lousy in the stinking bathroom of some dive you can't quite place. The face you see in the mirror is alien and terrifying. No matter how many times you splash the stale tap water on your face, you can't wake up from this dream. You have no idea who you are and how you came to be alone with some stiff decorating his desk with his cold blood. There are sirens in the distance, but not for long. Fine mess you got yourself in...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Adventure game on the Famicom: 57 titles. On the Super Famicom: 28. Déjà Vu and Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom are among them. One page each. #Famicom #RetroGaming https://chihirory.com/famicom-analysis/en/g009/
unlabelledView post →Has a really fun old-school adventure game feel, with bizarrely hilarious consequences for trying stupid things. Just my style.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is an awful lot of text that you can choose to read colored or black and white. These options are useless because I don't get the point of this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought the game was very average but giving that I don't have any big complains I'm giving it a pass. The feeling was in the right place and it felt like a classic pc thing that was fine. I found that the original mac version ran better than the colour version as I had no bugs in the original but game crashing one's in colour. As for sound, I was actually watching shows while playing so I hadn't notice. Some of the mechanics a be a touch frustrating such as I never knew there was another…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah the game is hard to play...because thats quality my friends. Games today are to easy to play, nostalgia games take gods to play, be ready to assend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its just the old deja vu and its really fun, buy it the ironic thing about this is i dont even remember buying it at all i dont remember buying a game called "Deja Vu" if that isnt funny i dont know what is but anyways i think it came with the reboot of shadowgate but idk still funny
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Déjà Vu is a fascinating relic from the very early days of point-and-click adventures. You wake up in a bar restroom with no memory and must piece together who you are and what happened — all while navigating a desktop-style interface built from several separate windows that can be moved and resized. The pacing is harsh by modern standards: instant deaths, trial-and-error and frequent reloads are part of the experience. Yet the game’s structure is logical, its atmosphere is excellent and the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good old school legit game. Difficult in a good way for me at least.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/5rfKRrIwwa4Remembered as a foundational Noir style adventure game there is greatness to the style and setting. Functionally the game suffers from decades since release making it at best a nostalgia piece.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Déjà Vu is a remarkably innovative game, especially since it was first released in 1985 for the Mac (BEFORE being ported to other systems). POSITIVES Unlike the typical (Infocom-style) text-adventure games of the 80s, this game uses an exclusively graphical interface with action verbs as buttons and a point-and-click method of selecting the object upon which the action is applied. This feature alone is, in a way, more advanced that most of the Myst-style games of the 1990s (that typically…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very limited and simple quasi-real life simulator that has troll gameplay which makes you die unpredictably just because the game wanted you to die because of a particular choice you made, so, while playing this game, make your peace with death and prepare to die, LOL. At least the game has a great sense of witty, sarcastic and dark humour and a sense of showing the rope about life 101 to help players free from their own naivety and ignorance. It's very admirable that, as an adventure game,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No sound or music, waste of money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got all the trapping of old games: limited amount of turn to finish the game, dead ends where you will get stuck if you saved after some points, no tutorial, no sfx or music, but the game surprisingly playable, and even fun, especially compared to lots of old games I tried. I'm honestly surprised at how (relatively) intuitive is the drag-and-drop-and-click interface is, though obviously there are hiccups. This is a true pioneer of graphical adventure games. It's cheap enough, but it's worth it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game as a 12 year old or something on my uncles mac, never got far but I loved it anyway, seeing it appear on the steam store filled me with nostalgia, I bought it, and am reliving my youth hopefully ill get further playing it now! Graphics are what you would expect, but the story is fun noir and the point and click narative is one of the first, take a look and see a piece of gaming history!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Title Screen Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure Summary: Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game that draws inspiration from "noir" detective novels that were popular in the 1940s.
unlabelledView post →I got this for the nostalgia. But I couldn't get very far to really feel it. The controls are difficult to use and I'm left wondering what to do or get things going. It's hard to get into. At least I tried.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like point and click adventures? Do you like detective stories? Do you like old games? If you said yes to those, then absolutely get this. It's a great little story about amnesia. The inventory is a pain in the ass, though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old school but witty narration and fun to explore
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GREAT game, but this version is buggy as hell, there's better ones on Steam
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the NES version better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A true classic remains fun to play even 30 years after its initial release. https://youtu.be/clcJFZEnEBk While you can feel this game's age in its graphics and sound design as well as a bit of a clunky feel when it comes to the interface, overall this game has aged pretty well. The game is very open-ended and let's you explore most of its locations in any order you want. You can pick up all kinds of objects and put them in your inventory and sort them however you see fit, and use, combine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This takes me back to my childhood. With my best friend and his dad. We were sitting on the floor and playing this and shadowgate. This goes back in the day. You have to love the intelligent dark humor of this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, I find this title irritating. I haven't played the original version to know how accurate the emulation is, but it's a bit fiddly managing the various windows (inventory/contents of a specific item) on top of remembering things like "OPEN" a person to search their body(???). Furthermore, the game starts with an unspoken time limit where you just lose if you take too long, and there are screens where you just lose if you don't know what to do, or - in one instance - if you just walk…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So DjVuLibre has 3 image processors: c44, cjb2 and cpal. c44 is a general purpose lossy photo compressor. cjb2 is bitonal (B&W only?) lossless with lossy options. cpal is an indexed-color-mode image compressor. It is very cool but also the slowest to process and display. #djvu
unlabelledView post →Awesome story, excellent humor, and clever thought-provoking puzzles. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I was a screaming little ♥♥♥♥ this game introduced me to the concept of suicide, I believe it was the tender age of 5, I started the game, the game provided me a .38 Special, and within a few seconds it said. "Great Shot! You hit yourself right between the eyes!"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I forgot what happened in this game too...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing - more realistic and difficult than the Broken Sword series. This game should be remade.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played through this many times back when it was first released and I can say it hasn't lost anything since then. The story is fun to work through and figuring out the mystery is satisfying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the best gme ever made. no game is worth comparing to it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Adventure - WC - Walk Clicker Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Dialog window gets cropped. UI is dated and relies on an old OS to give engine to adventure. Try Kingsway instead for same idea in an RPG format. Walk clickers are arguably the more primitive version of doing adventure games compared to classic point and click. Even walking simulators have the potential to be more fluid with their freeform environment navigation. The stiff scripting required…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty solid game. If you've played Uninvited before, give this one a shot as well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not a bad game but not really a great game. had to grab it sense it was pretty much the first pc game i ever played (MS DOS game lol). if you grab it on sale its a pretty neat game for the cost.
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