Blake & Mortimer: The Tables of Babylon

About

Blake and Mortimer: The Tables of Babylon drops you into a 1956 mystery involving strange murders of archaeologists during the Suez Crisis. You join the famous duo to solve riddles and uncover secrets linking modern threats to ancient Babylon. The gameplay mixes point-and-click exploration with twenty distinct mini-games that test your deduction skills. Expect to tackle quizzes, puzzles, and cryptography challenges as you race against a ticking clock to find the origins of writing in Sumer around 3200 BC. What stands out is how the game balances narrative tension with brain-teasing mechanics without slowing the pace down. Sanuk Games has packed the experience with variety, so you switch between investigating crime scenes and solving historical puzzles frequently. Players on PC will find the interface straightforward while working through a story that jumps across the globe from Egypt to Babylon. The focus stays on logic and observation rather than combat or complex inventory management. If you have tried other adventure titles in this series, you know what to expect here regarding style and tone. It is a solid entry for anyone who likes solving crimes alongside classic comic book heroes.

Storyline

1956: The Suez Crisis. While Paris, London and Tel Aviv are under pressure from Cairo, mysterious murders decimate the very select circle of archaeologists. Is there a link between those facts and the various threats that are terrorizing the free world? You will have to be clever and work alongside with Blake and Mortimer to investigate in riddles, as well as scientific fantasy. This will take you all around the world: the sources of civilization ... into the ruins of ancient and mysterious Babylon. But it will not be easy: the clock is ticking! Will you be successful in time? Especially a twenty mini-games will challenge your sense of deduction: quizzes, puzzles, teasers, cryptography...