Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile walkthrough: Full guide and puzzle solutions

Are you jumping into Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile? You’re in for a treat. Based on Christie’s famous novel, this video game adaptation remains faithful to the source material in some regards, but adds its own twists and new story beats. Filled with adventure and puzzles, we had a great time with it, and we’re sure you will too. But some of its puzzles can be a little tricky, so if you get stuck, we hope our Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile walkthrough will come in handy.

Our walkthrough tells you exactly where to go and what to interact with, as well as providing specific puzzle solutions and combinations within the mind map. What we haven’t included is the information required to fill in the character profiles — these aren’t necessary for completing the game, but you can of course add this information in yourself if you want.

Use the table of contents below to jump to the chapter of Death on the Nile you need help with, or simply follow through from the beginning: it’s up to you!

This walkthrough is a work in progress and currently covers the prologue and up to the end of chapter four. The rest will be added in the coming days.

Prologue: Chez ma Tante

• Go to Mr Blondin near the bar and start a conversation with him.
• After the cutscene, talk to Charles Windlesham. Ask him about the ring.

• Talk to Harry, the barman. Ask him about the ring and the proposal.
• Go through the door behind Harry, then go through another door into an office. Examine the photo frame and document on the desk, and the magazine on the side table. 
• Look at the clock on the desk. Interact with it, then interact with the top of it.

How to solve the clock puzzle in the prologue of Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

In the prologue of Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, you’ll find a strange clock on the desk in Blondin’s office of the night club. Interact with it, and you’ll see that you can rotate two rings of symbols. The rings overlap and form Roman numerals. You cannot make an entire clock face, but instead you need to make the correct numbers on each hand.

Look at the clock face again.

• The hand with the hole is at 3 (III)
• The plain hand is at 7 (VII)
• The ornate hand is at 11 (XI).

Rotate the lower ring until two straight lines are lined up with the hand with the hole. Switch to the upper ring and rotate until you have three straight lines visible.  Doing this, the rest of the numbers should be in the right place.

Take the golden moustache. 

• Examine the door, then go through the door. Go back out to the club. 
• Talk to Charles and ask him about the proposal.
• Talk to Blondin – he’s sat at the bar in a blue shirt. Ask him about the ring and the proposal.
• Go up the stairs and when prompted, begin eavesdropping. Move around until the sound waves line up. 
• Talk to Joanna Southwood (the dark-haired woman). Ask her about the ring and the proposal. Talk to Linnet Ridgeway (the blonde woman). After the cutscene ask her about the ring and the proposal. 

• Go back to Poirot. Go downstairs.
• Talk to Emmy Dunnes. She’s at the bar, wearing a pink dress. Ask her about the ring and the proposal.
• Ask the barman about the ring. Confrontation: choose ‘but I didn’t leave the bar all evening’. Then choose ‘The barman brought a bottle to Linnet Ridgeway’.
• Eavesdrop on the woman on the dancefloor pointed out by Emma – she’s wearing a checkered dress and white boots.  You’ll need to go up the stairs behind her to find the sweet listening spot.

• Go back to Blondin’s office. Interact with the safe. Input the code 1957 (it’s on the back of a photo on his desk).

• We just have one more bit of evidence to collect: Talk to the woman we eavesdropped on on the dancefloor. She’s Jacqueline de Bellefort. Ask about the ring and the proposal.

• Once you’re back in control of Poirot, go and talk to Joanna Southwood (she’s upstairs). 
• Return the ring to Charles – he’s at the bar. 
• You’re now in control of Jane. Leave the nightclub via the door up the small stairs and follow the corridor around. 

• Follow Emmy down the alley. Every time she stops, talk to her. When you ask her about the file, choose the option you want. We went with ‘Give it to a journalist’. 

Chapter 1: The Imperial Nile Hotel

• Go up the stairs and talk to the woman in the blue suit. 
• Go through the door behind her. 
• Talk to the man sat down at a table on the terrace. Talk to the man stood by the railings. Go down the stairs.
• Talk to the newlyweds – Linnet and Simon. Ask Linnet about Simon and Jacqueline.
• Walk up the steps and talk to the man on the sun lounger. Ask him about the Doyles.
• Head to the left and eavesdrop on the two women sat on the wall. You’ll need to go up two flights of stairs to be on a balcony above them to find the listening spot.

• Go back down to talk to them both. Ask about the Doyles.
• Go back up the stairs and talk to Jacqueline. 
• Eavesdrop on the couple sitting on the terrace. Go down the stairs to listen.
• Eavesdrop on the two women sat under the pergola near the pool. Talk to them. Ask about the Doyles.

• Go back into the hotel and ask the receptionist to give you some coins.
• Go out of the hotel’s front door. Talk to Simon. Ask him about Linnet, Jacqueline and his favourite music.
• Talk to Louise, the woman fighting with the luggage from the car.
• You’ll now have to solve a simple luggage puzzle: get all pieces of luggage to fit in the boot of the car.

How to solve the luggage puzzle in Chapter 1 of Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

To fit all luggage in the boot, you’ll haev to rotate and place them correctly. Leave the two large green cases where they are. Stack two of the thin, tall blue cases on top of each other on one side, and at the other side, lay them side by side. You can then put three of the burgundy cases stood up between the blue cases, and lay two on top of the flat blue cases.

Essentially, you’re looking for the layout below:

• Head back out to the back of the hotel and interact with the jukebox.

How to solve the jukebox puzzle in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

• Click the metal symbol at the bottom of the front of the jukebox. Rotate it with the right stick so the music note is the correct way around. 
• At the side of the jukebox, unplug it from the wall. Choose the latch in the centre and open it. Solve the electrical puzzle by rotating the wires so you end up with a straight line all the way up the middle.

• Rotate around to the other side of the jukebox. Interact with the letterbox-looking panel with two knobs at each side. Turn the left one so it’s at 9pm, and turn the right one until it’s at 7pm (they match the opposite side). The panel will open and reveal a key.
• Use the key in the lock just above. You now need to change the pins so they’re all in the right place and can rotate freely.

• Plug the jukebox back in to the wall.
• Look at the front of the jukebox. Put in a coin. Select song ‘Midnight Storm’. Turn the volume fully up and press play.

• Talk to Jacqueline. Ask her about Linnet. When confronting her, choose ‘I hate her but I don’t want to hurt her’. Then choose ‘Jacqueline threatened Linnet with death’.

• Go and talk to Linnet. She’s down the stairs past the pool. Ask her about Jacqueline. Choose ‘She’s suffering, but Jackie was just a crush for Simon’. Then choose ‘Jacqueline and Simon were engaged’. 

Go talk to Linnet. Select ‘Conclusions’. 

Chapter 2: Majorca

• Ring the doorbell.
• Talk to the woman, Mei Leech, sat in the kitchen. Ask about the guests, the employees and last night.
• Go out on the balcony to eavesdrop on the two people below.

• Go through the main door of the house to get down to the terrace. When prompted, choose whether or not you’ll seek justice for Emmy by any means necessary. 
• Eavesdrop on the two people on the loungers at the bottom of the stairs. Go near the bar to listen. Talk to them. 
• Go talk to the other couple on the loungers across the pool. Go down the steps and find two more people to talk to. 
• Go all the way down to the bottom of the steps to reach Vikram’s room. Interact with the door to pick the lock. 

• Go inside and pick the suitcase lock. Examine the note and take the cassette. 
• Examine both bedside cabinets. In the right hand side,  examine the pills and the earplugs in the top drawer. 
• Look in the wardrobe and the bathroom. As you go to leave the main door, Vikram will enter. Hide in the egg chair. 
• When he’s in the bathroom search his jacket and retrieve a phone number. Leave the room. 
• Make your way up the stairs. Eavesdrop on the two women sat on a table.  You’ll need to go up a level and stand by the pool too listen. 

• Go up and back into the main house. Use the phone and dial 051292.
• Talk to Mei in the kitchen again. 
• Interact with Mei’s bedroom door (near the phone).

• In Mei’s room, look in the chest of drawers. Examine the jewellery box and the rings inside, and the empty bracelet box.
• Look at the middle window. Look again at the handle.  
• Look in the bedside cabinet and examine all items. Interact with the bottom of the bed and look at the item. 
• Look at the lock on the bedroom door, then leave. 
• Talk to Mei and go through all dialogue options. 
• Leave the house through the front door and interact with the orange car. Interact with the black car,  then interact with its lock. Lockpick it.
• Open the boot and examine the tyre and the oil.  Look at the briefcase. Interact with the lock. No lockpick this time – rotate the digits and watch the animations to see when they jump. That’s the right number. For us it was 28469.
• Open the briefcase. Examine the newspaper and the gun. Look at the hidden compartment then examine the papers. 

• Head inside the house and examine the rose petals on the floor. Look at the statues on the cabinet by the door and examine the green one. It’s broken. 

• Go out the door to the terrace and look at the rose bush beneath the window. 

In the living room, go to the central sitting area and examine the camera on the table. You’ve now got a puzzle to solve.

How to solve the camera puzzle in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

• Rotate and examine the lens cover. Rotate so the quarter segment covers 6 to 9pm. The cover should come off.
• Rotate the camera to the bottom. Open the battery cover. Note 18 x2.5. Pull down the clip. On the side of the camera, click the grip and it should now move down to form a handle.
• Rotate to the lens section. Pair 18 with 2.5x.

• Rotate to the back of the camera. Press the button on the bottom. A battery cover should pop open on the handle. 
• Take out the battery from the handle and place it in the bottom of the camera. 
• Turn on the camera with the red switch on the back. You should see an image in the viewfinder: for us, it’s 3 bolts, 1 seven-pointed star, and 1 crescent moon to the right.
• Match these images with the settings on the side of the camera. 

• Click the top of the side of the camera to open it. Take the bracelet from inside. 

• Go back to Vikram’s car and interact with the driver’s side door. Pick the lock to start the engine. Interact with the tape deck. Play the cassette.
• Examine the glove box and look at the cassette and the map.

• Talk to Mei. 

Chapter 3 – The Nile

• Head down the stairs and head down the right side of the boat to find the restaurant. Head to the table with the blue tablecloth.

• Go downstairs to the kitchen and talk to the chef. 
• Examine the verrine on the side. 

• Go back upstairs and leave the restaurant. Walk around the deck until you reach the smoking lounge. Talk to Simon who is standing outside. 
• Enter the smoking lounge and talk to Linnet.

• Talk to Linnet about walnuts and the blue bottle. 
• Head down into the engine room and find the mechanic, Fleetwood. Talk to him about the meal, walnuts and the blue bottle.
• Leave the engine room and return to the kitchen. Ask the chef, Jamel, about the walnuts and a blue bottle.
• Go up to the bar – it’s on the floor above the restaurant. Talk to the barman, Samir. Ask about the meal, the walnuts and the blue bottle.
• Go upstairs again to the top deck of the boat. Talk to the man behind the bar, Tarek. Go through all dialogue options.

• On the top deck, you’ll also find the captain’s quarters. Enter and talk to him. Go through all dialogue options with him. When you ask him about the black smoke, he’ll run off, leaving you in charge of the boat. You’ll need to accelerate and steer, avoiding sandbanks and small sail boats.

• Go all the way down to the staff dormitory, which is on the bottom floor across from the boiler room. Inside, examine the letter on the dresser and the sketchbook on the bed. 
• Next go back into the boiler room and ask John Fleetwood about the black smoke. When prompted, choose ‘Black smoke doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem’. Choose ‘there’s a problem with the machinery’. 

• Interact with the control panel. This allows you to move around the pipes on the wall to the side. Your goal here is to create a new path between the pipes that circumvents the damaged section of pipe. The pipe must be solid, with no erroneous junctions in use.

• Look at the gloves on the table. At the other side of this area, take the tongs from the top of a box.
• Examine the boiler and interact with the top part. You now need to fix it. You need to turn the red wheels so the gauge stays in the green.

• Once you’re done, open the furnace. Interact with the glowing object inside.

• Head back to the smoking lounge to talk to Linnet. When you get there, eavesdrop on her by standing behind the room divider.

• Go to the restaurant. Talk to the man and woman who greet you inside the door and sit with them.
• Look around and click on the woman with a pink shirt and dungarees. Next, click on the man to the left of the restaurant, in a red shirt and waistcoat. Next, click on the bald man with the green waistcoat.

• Talk to Jacqueline. 
• Retire to your room. It’s 214, on the deck above the restaurant. Interact with the bed.

Chapter 4: New York

• Head down the street and into the pub. Talk to Will, the man behind the bar. Ask him about business and trafficking. Leave the bar when prompted.
• Look through the window and eavesdrop on the talking men. Go down the alleyway and in through the back door, then through a side door into a bathroom to find the sweet spot to listen to them.
• Now, you need to follow Will but don’t let him see you. Keep your distance and stay hidden around corners and behind dumpsters. When he goes past a gate that you can’t get through, retrace your steps and take the next turn down another alley, and go through a building. Later, you’ll need to go up some steps and pass across an abandoned building rather than following him directly.

Open your mind map.

Choose ‘The hideout’s secret code’. You need to reconstruct the secret knock that Will used to get into the hideout. Click boxes one, two, four, five, six and eight.

• Go down the stairs and interact with the door. Choose ‘Will’. You’ll now find yourself in the secret club.
• Talk to the woman wearing orange who’s sat in the corner. You’ll need to play cards with her. Lay out the cards to beat her score by matching colours, numbers and making sequences. You’ll need to win 3 rounds.

• Go through all dialogue options with her once you’re done.
• Move on to the older woman sat next to her. You’ll need to play another game – this time, it’s a Mahjong style game. You need to remove pairs of tiles to get to the highlighted bird tiles in less than 12 moves.
• Once you’ve completed three puzzles, go through the dialogue options.
• Next, move on to the third table and speak to the man sitting there. This time, it’s a dice game: you can rotate any two adjacent dice to get the highest score. Aim for sixes!
• After three games, go through all the dialogue options.
• Next, talk to the man behind the bar. Follow the white ball and guess what cup it is under. You won’t be able to win: he cheats. Go through the motions of three games, then go through the dialogue options with him.
• Leave the den and, after going up the steps leading back to the alley, go through the door on your left. You’ll need to lockpick a second door to get out. Interact with the back of a lorry once you’re out here. You’ll need to pick the lock, but you’ll be interrupted before you finish.

• Go and talk to him – he’s near the front of the lorry.
• Enter the Backstreet Spirit, just next to where he’s standing. Go and play the arcade game.

• Go back outside and back around to the back of the lorry. Go through the gate near here, then follow the alleyway around until you reach another gate. Through it, there should be a dog (you can pet it!) and a graffiti tiger on the wall. Go through the door here.

• Go up the stairs. A man will start talking with you. Tell him Clover sent you. Go through all the dialogue options.
• Go through the door behind him. Look at the flowers, the portrait, the card, the message on the floor and the bloodstain on the bed.
• Walk back towards the door and enter into conversation with Lenny again.

• Leave the apartment and make your way back to Changming, who is still stood near the lorry. Talk to him about trafficking in the neighbourhood. Choose ‘I stay away from the murders. Being a handyman is enough for me’. Then choose ‘The victim identified Changming through his username L4W’.
• When prompted, choose ‘The Spider’. It’s now your choice to report Changming to the police, or let him go.
• You can now go and lockpick the back of the lorry. You’ll now need to complete a block puzzle so you can reach the middle of the crates at the back of the lorry.
• Open up the box and examine the grenades, the rifles, and the delivery note.
• Go around to the front of the truck and lockpick the cab door. Look inside the glove box and examine the gun and the map. Look at the bottle on the floor. Examine the visor and the photograph tucked inside.
• Go back to the gambling den (through the door to the right of the back of the lorry). Talk to the man behind the bar. Choose ‘On the other hand, nobody cheats here. I personally make sure of that’. Then choose ‘Marcus cheats at the shell game’.
• You’ll need to track the ball under the cup again.
• Go outside and look at the graffiti on the wall just across from the steps. From there, look at the bird on the wall to the right. Note the small image that appears next to the bird – a heart with a bone through it. This is the next graffiti you’re looking for. Follow the trail, and you’ll eventually end up outside a door. You’re looking for an apartment building door with a cat next to it. Go up two flights of stairs and knock on the door next to the monkey graffiti.

• Return to Marcus – he’s behind the bar in the gambling den. Talk to him. Ask him about trafficking in the neighbourhood.

Updates to this guide are coming soon.