Versailles 1685 (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Versailles 1685

Stop a conspiracy to sabotage Louis XIV's rule, as you explore and adventure your way through 1685 Versailles. The game was a commercial success, with sales of 500,000 units in Europe alone by 2000.

31 December 1996

What Versailles 1685 is

Versailles 1685 is an adventure game developed by Cryo Interactive and released in 1996. It was published by Canal+ Multimédia. It is available on PlayStation, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational, historical and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.