The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

The characters all strongly stick with me after finishing, and I think that's probably more important than anything else.

While the central conceit sounds promising as an FMV experience, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker fails to find a consistent tone or fully engage the player in its story. It offers a couple of nice ideas and the odd smile, but if you don't care about the central mystery, you're left with madness, and the disparate threads never weave together in a satisfying way. The two ominous notes of the soundtrack (only a mild exaggeration) are left to supply tension, and with The Bunker and Late Shift showing how the genre can be relevant and entertaining in 2018, it's hard to recommend this over the alternatives.

A solid game that is let down in it's final minutes as it can't find the right way to conclude it's story. However the experience and is excellent and worth playing through to see.

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is one of the best FMV games you’ll play on current consoles to date. From its intuitive manual text input questioning to its randomness in terms of who the killer is and how certain story elements progress, this is a game you can replay multiple times and end up with a different outcome as you uncover new information and discover more things about your patients, whether or not you want too. If you’re looking for an interactive ‘whodunnit’ game which can be played solo or even with others chipping in with what to say (locally or on stream), then I can’t recommend The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker enough.

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is an interesting full motion video release on Nintendo Switch with a ton of content to experience. All the actors who portray Doctor Dekker's patients do a fantastic job and help to elevate the game's narrative and the mystery at hand. If you're a fan of the full motion video revival, then you should check out The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker today!

Although The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker does a decent enough job at building intrigue from act to act, its repetitive nature and random approach to the murder mystery format ultimately serve to diminish what could have been a highly enjoyable detective simulator. Not only do interrogations begin to lose their lustre rather quickly, with only a few standout patients maintaining their quality until the end, the killer being chosen at random at the start of each playthrough makes for an incohesive narrative that relies more on its gimmick than a genuine attention to the nuances of the mystery genre to pull off its story. To its credit, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker does work far better than it should given how much the randomness holds it back, but it could have been significantly better with a more focused storyline.

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is another title published by Wales Interactive that tries to bring back FMV games. It's interesting game focusing on reviewing patients of recently deceased Doctor Dekker, but necessity of typing answers makes it really tiering on consoles.

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is a different type of mystery game thanks to its theme, gameplay mechanics and FMV segments. This is a long game that will take you around 8 hours or so to complete, and even longer if you want to add another Platinum trophy to your collection, since you'll need to ask hundreds of questions, as well as find the real killer of Doctor Dekker. I had a blast playing the game since I've now become a fan of FMV games, and I look forward to seeing what new FMV game Wales Interactive gives us next.

Strongly supported by its characters and great acting performances, TIMDD delivers a nice interactive story that should be played with no rush, which can in fact turn the game a little boring to a point that it could ruin some good surprises.

Whilst by its nature a niche title, I would happily recommend surrendering yourself to The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker.