With the apparent rise and comeback of the Adventure genre, The Adventure Company is one company to thank. One of their latest titles that will hit the store shelves in the near future is “Still Life”. Today we get to try developer Microid's upcoming offering to the point-and-click category.

Tying in loosely with the events in Post Mortem, Still Life lets gamers play the role of high-heeled, quick-witted FBI agent Victoria McPherson, granddaughter to Post Mortem’s protagonist, Gus McPherson. Taking place in both modern day Chicago and 1920s Prague, players will find themselves controlling both Gus and Victoria through out the duration of the game.

Still Life begins with a straightforward plot. Victoria is following the case of a mysterious serial killer preying on young women who appears to be getting bolder with every murder. During the investigation of the fifth murder in the series, she begins to discover clues along the lines of secret messages on walls using the victims’ blood and other more subtle hints. While on a much-needed break, Victoria pays a visit to her father on his birthday and digs up her grandfather’s case files from the attic. Eerily enough, the cases depict the same bizarre murders she is currently investigating. From this point on in the game, Victoria begins to have erratic flashbacks to Gus’ own investigation and allows players to periodically take charge of the hero as he embarks on his own search for answers in the 1920s-era Prague.