Petrovka 38 ½
Description
Petrovka 38 ½ is a two-dimensional point-and-click adventure game loosely utilizing the address of the Moscow militia (police) headquarters. It rather supposes a secret paranormal department is located underground at the same address.
The protagonist is the simple bartender Sanya (Alexander). He has been occasionally involved with paranormal burglaries taking place at his restaurant and has prevented them. For this efforts special agents of the paranormal department are planning to enlist him to their forces, but through a set of trials. During the game Sanya uncovers who's who on his way to an ancient artifact.
Most of the time Sanya is guided between static screens, collecting or using the scattered items, and talking to characters to gain more items or information. The cursor has three states (walk / see / action) auto-selected on hovering over an interactive spot. Several mini-games, including a Battleship board game or a shooting gallery arcade, as well as logical puzzles, need to be completed to progress.