The Museum of Everything preparing for PC exhibit

• Announcements by Jack Allin
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Alternate universe sci-fi pixel art mystery unveiled by the creator of The Beekeeper's Picnic

When your debut adventure game features none other than the incomparable Sherlock Holmes, to which revered detective do you turn to solve your next case? Well, if you're Helen Greetham of The Wonder Room, you turn to Madge the cleaner, of course, in the upcoming sci-fi mystery adventure The Museum of Everything.

While story details are being kept fairly hush-hush for now, this game takes place far, far from the comfy confines of The Beekeeper's Picnic. Instead of solving myriad little mysteries in the quaint English countryside in the 1920s, here you'll find yourself on a "colossal space station" solving a whopper of a crime: the theft of the Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa! The cleaning lady may seem an unlikely investigator for cracking this "interstellar art caper," but Madge's job gives her plenty of access throughout the ""sprawling orbital museum." Plus she has an extra trick up her sleeve, in the form of "psychic abilities" that offer unique insight into physical objects that "reveal secrets, memories, and clues" that an ordinary detective would miss. 

The Museum of Everything is set in "alternate universe 1912," giving the game a distinctive retro futuristic vibe that is quite different from its rural earthbound predecessor. It's presented in the same stylish pixel art, however, taking players to many areas of the facility, from "grand galleries to dusty archives. Not to mention the gift shop." Another similarity, according to Greetham, is that "the focus is still on exploring environments and getting to know characters rather than fiendishly difficult sleuthing." That means there will robots and aliens and other "eccentric characters" to meet and question, including "a washed‑up explorer, a cat‑obsessed cartoonist, and a flamboyant actor," as well as puzzles to solve, some of which will require thoughtful use of Madge's special "psychic object‑reading powers."  

Still early in production, The Museum of Everything is a "long, long way out from release," but it is now ready for wishlishing on Steam for Windows and Linux, and you can follow its progress through the newsletter available through the developer's website. Which still leaves plenty of time to check out The Wonder Room's previous games, including the free text-based April-Fool's-joke-but-still-an-actual-game, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt The Game. 

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