Swedish Quests

January 1, 2025 9:48 PM

The Carol Reed series (Facebook), the annually-released Swedish indie point-and-click adventure game series (similar to the formerly annual but still going Nancy Drew game series), has just released its TWENTIETH installment, Murder Malady. If you don't want to buy/play any of them, YouTuber Arglefumph has done Let's Plays of the first eighteen (Ctrl+F 'Carol' in the playlists), and here's someone else's commentary-free playthrough of #19.

Note: While the release years skip from 2015 to 2017, this was simply a change from end-of-December releases to start-of-January releases.

Arglefumph also writes full parody fanfics of Nancy Drew games. (The third and newest one isn't fully on that playlist yet but is on this one.)

posted by BiggerJ (4 comments total)

This (well the #19 playthrough I looked at) is SO relentlessly old-school hand and human-made, it was calming just to look at the page where you can purchase. You can buy and they will get it to you within 12 hours! (Excuse me, AFTER HAVING SENT THE PAYMENT, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL IN LESS THAN 12 HOURS. THAT EMAIL CONTAINS THE LINKS.) From the jpg that contains the text. I don't care. I need this right now.

I am going to get it, and go back in time in my head when things like this were still things like this.

That, and also in appreciation of the fact that this allows me not to end the New Year's sidebar / Best Of with CLOSED PENIS IN REFRIGERATOR DOOR.
posted by taz at 11:07 PM on January 1 [4 favorites]

Wikipedia page is good; the Casting and characters is interesting. I like it. And I don't have to shoot anybody. (I know there are other places where I don't have to shoot anybody, but in this one I also don't have to look at AI art that will make me want to shoot somebody. Make that some thing.)
posted by taz at 11:18 PM on January 1 [2 favorites]

I did not expect #9 to based on the Olof Palme assassination.
posted by BungaDunga at 11:23 AM on January 2 [2 favorites]

Wow, thank you so much for this! Having worked in the games industry here in Sweden, written about it and being a big computer game history geek, I can't believe I've never heard of these!
posted by Nea Imagista at 11:31 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]