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Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer

City Interactive S.A. · 2018-07-13

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 17, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A series of dark macabre murders is crisscrossing two continents and FBI agent Nicole Bonnet is called in again to investigate. The only clue, mysterious dolls dressed in 18th century costumes, are left next to the deceased. What are the motives behind the actions of an insane pitiless slayer?

0
playing now
71%
positive of 163 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
10h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer, also known as Art of Murder 2, is an adventure game developed and published by City Interactive and is the second installment in the Art of Murder series. Although it was published by City Interactive in 2008, the American version of the game was not published until 2009.

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  • · Top 59% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 163 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.00-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.50 at GamersGate (2018-10-01) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 50 of 73 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.95$0.792015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $4.982017-08-11 — best price $9.952018-07-13 — best price $3.992018-11-26 — best price $4.992019-03-28 — best price $4.992019-09-20 — best price $4.992020-01-17 — best price $4.992020-04-21 — best price $4.992020-08-03 — best price $4.992020-10-26 — best price $1.492020-12-05 — best price $3.662021-01-27 — best price $3.662021-04-05 — best price $1.492021-06-21 — best price $1.492021-09-06 — best price $1.392021-11-20 — best price $4.992022-01-22 — best price $4.992022-03-05 — best price $4.992022-05-16 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $3.662022-08-30 — best price $4.482022-11-21 — best price $1.952023-01-09 — best price $1.992023-03-27 — best price $4.992023-06-01 — best price $1.742023-07-25 — best price $4.442023-11-06 — best price $1.742024-01-16 — best price $1.992024-04-15 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $1.252024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-06-03 — best price $3.662025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-12-11 — best price $0.792026-02-02 — best price $3.662026-04-28 — best price $3.662026-07-06 — best price $1.002026-08-24 — best price $1.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Player tags

MysteryAdventureDetectivePoint & ClickFemale Protagonist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.