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| Developer(s) | Cryo Interactive Entertainment |
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| Publisher(s) | Cryo Interactive Entertainment Canal+ Multimedia Réunion des Musées Nationaux |
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| Platform(s) | Windows PC PlayStation |
| Release | 1997 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
Versailles 1685 (French: Versailles 1685: Complot à la cour du Roi Soleil, also known as Versailles: A Game of Intrigue), is a video game released in 1997. The 3D adventure game was developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment, and was jointly published by Cryo, Canal+ Multimedia and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. It was followed in 2001 by Versailles II: Testament of the King.
The game revolves around Lalande, a young valet de chambre, who is called by Alexandre Bontemps in the early morning of the summer solstice 1685 after a strange pamphlet is discovered (which at the bottom figures a title of Aesop's Fables: "the frogs and Jupiter"), written by a schemer who threatens to set fire to the castle, all the while littering it with satirical pamphlets and clues which, if correctly pieced together, could save the castle from its potential fate. The player has until nightfall to investigate the castle and surrounding areas.
Versailles 1685 was a commercial success, with sales of 500,000 units in Europe alone by 2000.