15 Days - PC

The mark of a good PC adventure game is always in its storyline, and House of Tales has been responsible for a lot of great experiences. Its latest title, 15 Days, looks to throw the player into an involved and compelling plot that sees a trio of activists get caught up in a murder investigation that changes their lives forever.

Cathryn, Mike and Bernard are the equivalent of a collective modern-day Robin Hood. Based in London, the three activists are in the business of stealing works of precious art. In complex and thought-out plans, they tackle the best-guarded museums in the world, and donate the millions they make from the steal to development projects in Africa.

But Cathryn and her friends get into some trouble after successfully lifting a portrait of Cecil Rhodes (former British Governor of Rhodesia, nowadays Zimbabwe) from a special exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa. While this is happening, US special agent Jack Stern is attempting to solve the murder of a British Foreign Secretary – a note is discovered about the transport of the Rhodes painting from the Secretary's office to South Africa and back.

With the young thieves now in possession of the painting, their paths are soon to cross with Stern, who is on the hunt for the missing art piece. As the player steals more work from museums around the world, using a range of interesting gadgets along the way, they will seek to get out of the mess they are in at all costs. Do Cathryn, Mike and Bernard have anything to do with the Secretary's death? more