Moebius: Empire Rising
The first in a brand new series of paranormal mystery adventures from award-winning game designer Jane Jensen, creator of the best-selling Gabriel Knight and Gray Matter series. Take on the role of Malachi Rector, a brilliant antiques dealer and historian whose photographic memory and eye for deduction transforms locations and clues into interactive puzzle pieces and historical patterns. Players traverse the world's most exotic locations as they solve challenging puzzles, search for hidden clues, and connect evidence and events to uncover a global conspiracy that threatens to bring worldwide ruin. When a young woman is brutally murdered and a secret government agency decides to investigate, only Malachi Rector holds the key to solving the mystery - a man whose fate he may not be able to control.
Story
The game tells the story of Malachi Rector, an antique dealer who travels the world to find artifacts. After his upscale Manhattan store is destroyed in a fire, he is hired by the billionaire Amble Dexter to investigate a series of events and document them in his meticulous way. The first event is the death of a young woman in Venice who is found hanging from a bridge. As Rector investigates her life, he realizes that the beautiful and talented young woman - and the interrupted path of her life - had a great hidden meaning: Amble Dexter and his accomplices are playing with the fabric of life in ways Rector never thought possible. Even he, Rector himself, is part of a larger pattern. He must figure out who is doing what and whether their intentions are good or bad before he can decide whether to play his given role or try to change the outcome. This is a metaphysical thriller alla Dante's Equation and Gabriel Knight.