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Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None is the title of a 2005 point-and-click adventure game developed by AWE Productions and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows. It was the first in The Adventure Company's Agatha Christie series. The game is a detective murder-mystery; it begins with nine people, including Patrick Narracott, the playable character, who meet and journey to the fictional Shipwreck Island. There, two additional onscreen characters are introduced, and the story then follows the events that unfold.

And Then There Were None is a point-and-click adventure game, played from a third-person perspective.[9] Most of the interactive elements of And Then There Were None consist of asking other characters questions, and collecting and combining items.[10] The player can carry items using an inventory system, and use the inventory to combine and examine items throughout the game.[9] Twelve items can be viewed at a time, and there are several screens in the inventory.[11] New items are slotted into the first available space in the inventory.[9] The game's cursor is context-sensitive, and changes into a rotating gear when held over an item the player can interact with and use.[9] And Then There Were None features a 2.5D graphics engine, which combines pre-rendered backgrounds with 3D-modelled characters.[11]

And Then There Were None is divided into chapters, which are further divided into acts. The player plays through each act, and after completing a certain trigger event, the next act begins. The developers ensured that nothing essential to the game could be missed during the player's progression through the game's acts, although large sections of gameplay are optional, and the player may ignore many of the side-quests. This divided progression in time adds another dimension to gameplay, as not only does the player have to be in the right place to find a clue or solve a puzzle, but must be there at the right time. For example, an empty room in one act could hold a vital clue in the next.[2]

Another feature of And Then There Were None is the Suspicion Meter , which measures the player's relationship with other characters in the game. The meter was devised to counteract a common problem in adventure games, where the player can rifle through other characters' belongings in front of them, without any problem. There are negative consequences if the player is caught doing things that other characters deem inappropriate, and this directly affects the Suspicion Meter . The meter begins at a neutral position with each character in the game. If the player does an unfavorable action, the meter falls to negative one, and if the player does a favorable action the meter rises to positive one. The meter only contains three positions, and depending on the position the meter is at in regards to a certain character, dialogue actions with that character are affected.[2]