Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express player exploring the train. Since its release, "Murder on the Orient Express" has received widely differing reviews. GameRankings gave it a score of 65.22%, while Metacritic gave it 60 out of 100. An aspect of gameplay in "Murder on the Orient Express" which received largely negative reactions was the repetitive nature of many tasks the player must complete. 2404 accused the game of reducing Christie's novel, and the game, into a series of repetitive and secretarial tasks, such as collecting fingerprints, passports, and other random items. The site further went on to say that the player is made to feel
Murder on the Orient Express Murder". In December 2014, the novel was included in "Entertainment Weekly"'s list of the Nine Great Christie Novels. The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son in 1932 inspired that element in Christie’s novel two years later. An innocent, but perhaps loose-lipped, maid employed by Lindbergh's parents was suspected of involvement in the crime. After being harshly interrogated by police, she committed suicide. Two less notable events helped inspire her novel: Agatha Christie’s first journey on the Orient Express in late 1928, and a blizzard near Cherkeskoy, Turkey, that marooned an Orient Express for six days just a few months