GI.net: "I wasn't expecting this game to arrive in my mailbox, but here it is. I had no clue what the game was supposed to be about, but who can resist the lures of ancient Egypt?
Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb is an adventure game set in ancient Egypt. It advances in a 360-degree view, scene by scene through a first-person perspective. Things start quickly as Thomas (your character) detects the signs of a struggle, and after a brief investigation, he discovers that his girl, Iris, and her father, Akkad, have been kidnapped. It soon becomes clear after he meets the queen, Cleopatra, that their disappearances have to do with the queen's upcoming astrology reading, for which Akkad is famous. Thomas sets off to the rescue in a bit of an odd and haphazard manner.
Unfortunately, there isn't much else to tell of the story. It is very much on the thin side. Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb is a very short game with a dense concentration of puzzles. While it might be considered an adventure game, after playing it, I tend not to think of it as such, because the story is just so thin that it really lacks the adventure part. You might want to imagine the game as a more elaborate version of a 2D puzzle game with short blurbs of story and reasoning thrown in every once and awhile. This is even more evident after you experience the extraordinarily simple point-and-click interface, barely utilizing a right-click function."
