The game uses a text-driven adventure perspective rather than an action-oriented display. Players read narrative descriptions, inspect locations, collect information, and enter commands to question the situation or advance the case.

Progress depends on interpreting clues and choosing useful actions. The available documentation does not reliably establish the complete command vocabulary, scenario structure, or alternate modes for every DOS release.

Read every description carefully and record names, locations, objects, and apparent contradictions. Try simple investigative commands consistently, and revisit earlier locations when new information changes the context.

Because the full parser vocabulary is not reliably documented, avoid assuming that an unrecognized command proves an action is impossible.