YMMV / Murder in the Alps

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Does Claudia murder Dr. Hartmann purely because she's unaware about the smuggling operation her fellow Nazi agent is running through Hotel Reger and believes the doctor is about to tell Anna and Walter something he has discovered about the murders that have already taken place? Or does she know about the illegal activities of the Nazi and is trying to prevent Hartmann from exposing them?
• Complete Monster: Oskar, the titular Dada Killer, is a demented artist who kills women and arranges their bodies to resemble Dada-inspired art pieces. Prior to becoming a police officer, Oskar worked as an artist under the pen name Ozzie Lang. After his first exhibition at the Knef Gallery was shut down due to the disturbing nature of his art, the gallery owner, Iris Knef, refused to give him a second exhibition, causing him to develop both a passionate hatred and fetishistic adoration for her. This inspired him to start a new art project involving the murder of several women—one of whom he had sexually assaulted in the process—who represent the things he hates about society; among them being Lieutenant Judit Halle, Anna's friend and partner investigating the case. With each murder, Oskar dresses his victim with a stolen article of Iris' clothing before attempting to kill Iris herself as his work's grand finale. After being caught, he attempts to goad Anna—still devastated from Judit's death—into fatally shooting him to make himself go down in history as an artistic genius, at least in his deranged mind. His destructive actions continue and leave a major impact on many innocent people in the rest of the chapters in Part 3. In Ladies of the Night, Gustav, the son of one of Oskar's victims, is evidentially traumatized and left in despair after his mother's murder, dedicating himself to find Oskar no matter what. In the same chapter, Oskar goes on a spree sleeping with and assaulting many prostitutes, killing one after torturing a detective hired by Iris to find him. Said detective was mistakenly killed by the sister of the victim prostitute in a fit of rage, resulting in the sister's husband being imprisoned for the murder to protect his wife. In Forgotten Memento, Oskar is revealed to have killed Iris and likely orchestrated other crimes in the chapter, including kidnapping Anna to torment her and sending assailants to commit a massacre on the Parliament, silence the assailant who committed said massacre, and hold hostage the railroad traffic control building.
• Spiritual Successor: Murder By Choice is another murder mystery Hidden Object Game released by Nordcurrent later in October 2022 and practically is a present-day version of Murder in the Alps. For more details on the similarities between the two games, visit the YMMV page of Murder by Choice.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • After the conclusion of The Heir, Exiled Dead began with Anna reading from a newspaper that with both Aldo and Mario Molinelli dead and their only remaining blood relative, Osvald Bernstein, incarcerated for murdering Aldo, Molinelli Industries is in a precarious situation, with Anna wondering if Aldo's widow Silvia will take over the company. The next chapter, Unforgiven, was originally titled as The Widow, suggesting it would have served as a comeback for Silvia. That doesn't happen, and Anna prepares instead to testify in the first court hearing in the trial of her former friend Osvald, with the latter's photograph appearing in the first page of her diary. This build-up could have been used to set up The Only Redemption as the comeback for Osvald, allow him to find some kind of redemption, and bring Molinelli Insdustries' story full circle. Instead, The Only Redemption takes place after the trial and has a completely different mystery to solve.
  • The opening of Ladies of the Night has a mysterious assailant throwing rocks at prostitutes' windows to grab their attention and then throwing bouquets at them before entering their residence at getting busy with them. The assailant then physically assaults the prostitutes, as seen when he hits the first seen prostitute after she tries to hold him. This seems like it would set up Anna investigating this assault spree; however, Anna never finds out about this and only knows about one of the prostitutes, Susi Wiget, meeting a mysterious client who initially gave her a bouquet and turns out to be Oskar on the run to avoid the police without any reference to other potential prostitutes the client got busy with.
  • Forgotten Memento ends on a Cliffhanger moment with a To Be Continued message, which would heavily imply the next chapter No Quarter directly follows up from the events of Forgotten Memento. However, No Quarter barely addresses the events of the last chapter besides Gerhard's return and Iris no longer living and focuses on an entirely separate story.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Irene Hoffman from Unforgiven is portrayed as a mourning woman who, after losing her son Roberto in an apparent accident a decade earlier, abandoned her husband Rinaldo in her grief and since then antagonized Roberto's best friend Flavio Riva, convinced that he killed Roberto out of jealousy. However, when Rinaldo tries to win her back, she angrily throws to the ground the flowers he offers her and storms off. When Anna reveals the truth of what happened to Roberto, Irene cries out that she "always knew it" and demands for herself Roberto's diary, claiming that it belongs to her. She doesn't acknowledge anyhow that while she was right about Roberto being killed by Flavio, she was wrong about the reasons behind it. Neither does she consider what Flavio must have felt to have received from her a black rose every year as a reminder of how he unintentionally pushed Roberto off the cliff, something that made him a worse mess than he already was.