Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Final Cut contains "extracts from six Hitchcock films ("Psycho", "Frenzy", "Torn Curtain", "Rope", "Saboteur" and "Shadow of a Doubt")". "Game Informer" said that with games like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Final Cut", Ubisoft's PC catalog is an area where the company is able to experiment and take risks. The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN wrote that the game offered "no suspense, puzzles of little interest, poor dialog, a tortuous storyline, and awkward control". ActionTrip concluded that "using Hitchcock's name and work was a good marketing move, but, unfortunately the game quality doesn't live up to
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Final Cut it." Quandary wrote "Being an Arxel Tribe game, I was actually a bit disappointed in the figures. They are somewhat blocky and almost wooden looking." Acknowledging that "Alfred Hitchcock had sixty-seven director credits to his name before his death on April 29, 1980", GameSpy concluded that "Hitchcock: The Final Cut" "feels like a confusing, unworthy amalgamation of all sixty-seven Hitchcock projects". Adventure Gamers described the game as "a muddled adventure game with little inspiration, even though it pretends to be Hitchcock-inspired", while Four Fat Chicks said, "Storytelling, the backbone of an adventure game, appears to be a forgotten art, and