Really enjoyed this adventure game!! It's different than the average point-and-click adventure game in that the decisions made by the player will change how the story unfolds. Which, in turn, affects your scoring at games end. You play as Mata Hari and are recruited as a spy. As story progresses, you end up becoming a double agent. As with point-and-click adventure games, it is somewhat linear. However ... the key is to strategize. You're a spy. Stop and think. Even though some characters may suggest you go to one country, try going a different route via a different country first. There are side 'missions' that are at play while completing primary missions at hand. With my first playthrough, I pretty much did what I thought I was 'supposed' to do per the character interactions to get what I needed to further the story. My score was pretty sad at games end and I didn't understand why. On my second playthrough, I took more time, chose different routes than suggested by characters, tried to avoid interaction with certain characters until necessary, and was delightfully surprised that I could do much more than I thought. Any adventure gamer will really enjoy this game!!!!
(I would love to see achievements and cards added to this game!!!!)

Like some other reviewers I find it difficult to give this game a pure thumbs up or down. It does have a charm to it--where else can one drug a man to sleep and steal his secrets while dressed in a nightie and high heels? The problem lies not in the story but in the game play. First, there is A LOT of traveling between countires and while the attempt to turn this into a minigame might have meant well it quickly becomes tedious. Second, I thought the the difficulty of the minigames ramped up quickly, espeically the dance one. I know you don't have to be a dancer to finish the game but I hate it when not having great twitch reflexes gets in the way of playing the game how I want to play it--frustration is not equal to fun. Some people are going to love this game but I didn't. The story and the setting simply couldn't overcome what I experienced as poor game play.

Its an average game, the story doesn't really get engaging until towards the end.

The puzzles are decent, the graphics are meh, but not atrocious. The voice acting is done very well and makes up for any lack of polish the game may have.

The main character seems a bit out of touch with reality in some cases.

It would make a good stocking stuffer for anyone who enjoys point and click adventures.

I chose this game to be my first experience in the point and click genre, it's old it has mixed reviews but seemed interesting. And now after I finished it and despite a bit of me getting bored at times because it's a least favorite genre of mine, I am so ready to delve into more 'Point And Click' games.

I dunno why the mixed reviews it plays good no bugs or anything and it narrates the story of Mata Hari a Dutch dancer and spy in the events leading to WW1 with some interesting puzzles and mini games plus 4 possible endings. All in all it was an interesting story to learn about and see a bit how it developped, it got me to read a little more about the real mata hari and her life. It was a good experience.

Mine is not a thumbs up, nor a thumbs down. The game has a particular charme: it's set in the first two decades of 1900, you travel in 4 countries of Europe, you meet some historical characters, and the main character is Mata Hari. That's probably the only good thing about this game. If you like the adventure genre and you have nothing else to play, and you find this game for a few bucks (like I did), give it a shot, but you better know that this isn't one of the best point'n'click adventure games out there: the puzzles are boring and too easy - most of the gameplay will be spent traveling from city to city to speak to someone (couldn't she use a phone?). The story isn't very addictive either, but there's something about this game that give you a good feeling. The setting is perfect, the puzzles are useless. Too bad, it could have been a great game, but it isn't.

I had to check it out since it's the first game of the studio who made the excellent Black Mirror II and III. Indeed, you can already see some helpful UI elements which show up in future games like teleporting to your destination by double-clicking, and the spacebar showing all hotspots.

The game successfully brings you to the depicted time period, with decent visuals (except the awful dancing animations) and music. The game is fully voice acted and I found both the writing and the voice acting to be decent (checked out both English and French versions and ended up slightly preferring the French... this is set in Paris after all).

I found one minigame pretty nifty: at some point you must find out which approach will work best to seduce some men, based one what you can guess about their personalities. This requires you to have listened properly to the dialogue earlier in the game.

Beyond that however, everything falls apart. The story is boring (and not in the least historically accurate, but real-life Mata Hari was even more boring unfortunately), puzzles are trivial yet some involve pixel hunting if you don't use the space bar, getting around is a chore due to both the dialog UI being annoying and the traveling minigame being pointless (but eventually skippable), you get the drift.

Do go play Black Mirror 2 and 3 though (optionally the first one, for background, it's from a different studio and annoying to play though). They're awesome and show how much this small studio learned in the interval.

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Good Point-and-Click Adventure game offering a classic experience with some quite challlenging mini-game puzzles. Playing as the legendary spy who was actually a dancer by profession means you will be doing some fliriting, object-combination and item fetching throughout. Mata's mission are varied and interesting, even though the actual story progression is happening at a decent pacing.
Overall this one is a recommendable adventure game with some replayability as there are different endings to get, depending on three values (Wealth, Spycraft, Skills).

Solid point & click adventure, I enjoyed it. Puzzles are not hard, it's more like story driven adventure. All dialogues have voice overs, nice soundtrack and art. Some historical references - your main character is Mata Hari - real person, there are other historical figures you know from school history class. I'm not sure if this game is 100% historically accurate but it's fun to play.

Played on Debain 10, Nvidia drivers, Proton 4.2 - worked out of the box.

To be concise, the game is just barely ok, where it could have easily been at least 'good'.
Cons:
* Puzzles are just very easy. No real challenge here.
* !!Too much backtracking!! For a game that requires so much going back from one place to another, the very least the designers could have done, is to make it easy and fast. Instead, moving between locations takes ~50-60% of the gameplay time. Moving between countries is required a lot, and often, but everytime you must: go to the current-location --> taxi --> train station --> target country --> target location. So moving from A to B takes ~4-5 screens. Every. Time.
Frustrating, annoying and tedious, it adds absolutely nothing positive to the gameplay.
According to record it seems I played for 7.0 hours. I theorize that if traveling has been easy, I could have completed it in as much as 3!

The story of Mata Hari had some great potential, but the performance is rather poor

The game is an old-school point and click. You play Mata Hari, seductive, desired, curious and suspicious as she is meant to be. You will see the many sides of a sexual spy during a political, psychological and mysterious war.
Although predictable, the story is a nice trip through history.

The main issue with the game is repetitiveness. You have a huge amount of discussions, repetitive OST, repetitive puzzles, impossible dance mini game (another repetitive puzzle) and a bit too much of going between towns.
The good side is, you can turn on the panic button for mini games, including the dancing one. It is barey possible to be successful at it on a computer without a touch screen.

Do I recommend the game? Definitely, for the fans of quests with lots of speech and conversations. As a whole? Nope.

*Sorry for the typos!