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Danger in Pompeii is a short, content-rich adventure puzzle game that invites you to relive the last day of Pompeii and piece together a mystery as Mount Vesuvius erupts. You play as a solver of enigmas, following Mercury’s cryptic message and helping more than sixty uniquely written characters with their problems-decoding the perfect bread recipe at the pistrinum, exposing who tried to kill the actor Clodius, tracking down sacred chickens, and more. The game combines a spine of narrative puzzles with many optional side quests that reveal the daily life of Romans.

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Gameplay is calm and thoughtful: explore a faithfully reconstructed Pompeii at your own pace, move between landmarks like the Forum, the Grand Theater and the Amphitheatre, talk to citizens, and tackle a broad variety of puzzles. The experience is compact but full-nine main quests, multiple side stories, and 28 educational insights developed with experts from Institut le Rosey give depth beyond the core mystery. Art direction leans toward a comic-book style grounded in historical sources, and the soundtrack and parts of design were contributed to by students from Institut le Rosey, which adds a distinctive, collaborative tone.

What stands out is the educational ambition: the developers worked with Pompeii specialists and created a classroom-ready version of the game, so players naturally learn about architecture, social life and customs while solving puzzles. The game is family-friendly and recommended from about age nine and up. Practically, it’s accessible-short enough to finish in a few sessions, but with enough side content to linger and explore. Multiple save slots mean more than one player or family members can share a single computer without losing progress.

If you’re drawn to historical settings, narrative puzzles and exploration rather than combat, Danger in Pompeii is an engaging way to experience an ancient city brought to life. The production feels earnest and educational without being dry, and the variety of characters and mini-stories helps the city feel lived-in. For players who want a measured, story-first puzzle adventure with an educational bent, this is worth a look.

Danger in Pompeii can be downloaded for anyone interested in exploring ancient Pompeii and solving its mysteries.