History Videogame / safecracker

--> '''Main Character:''' You have been entrusted with a colossal fortune. Use it well.

* BookcasePassage: In the house's library, natch. The regular door to [[spoiler: Crabb's office]] is always locked, and the key for it is too damaged to work. What do you do instead? Use the hand scanner on the public entrance? No, your hand won't suffice, of course. Instead, there's a tiny switch hidden behind a metal panel, disguised as a [[ConspicuouslyLightPatch suspiciously neat row of books]], that raises the whole shelf enough to reveal half of another door.

* AlreadyUndoneForYou: Both Duncan W. Adams and Jerry Crabb have placed all the materials needed to solve their safes prior to your arrival.

The second puts you in the shoes of an expert safecracker, hired to find the will of Duncan W. Adams, oil conglomerate CEO who had a serious passion for designing safes just as strange as Crabb & Sons'.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The voice safe, mentioned in the company catalog, is by default usually unlocked by the owner saying their name. Naturally, T.J. Petherbridge has a tape in his desk with a recording mentioning his name on it.
* UnwinnableByDesign: Make sure that you take everything from whatever safe you unlocked, and removed any keys you put in if they weren't yet used, because ''you will not get a second chance.''

* DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally your character makes snide comments on the absurdity of the safes you'll find around the house.

--> '''Main Character:''' "Let's search this floor, the will must be here somewhere!"

* Klotski: One of the last puzzles in the game, using a magnet to move blocks around under a pane of glass.

Safecracker is the title of two point and click puzzle games. The first was released in 1997, published by Dreamcatcher Entertainment and developed by Swedish software developers DayDream Software, who later developed a harder, but similar game, ''Traitor's Gate''.

* MultipleEndings: When you finally get the will, your last puzzle is to decide which member of the family best deserves Mr. Adam's fortune. Or you can TakeAThirdOption and ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall let yourself be the heir.]]''

* InstrumentalHipHop: The game's music was composed by then-Swedish rap group [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob'n'Raz Rob'N'Raz]]. Each room has its own theme, and for short loops, most of them fit surprisingly well.

--> "Let's search this floor, the will must be here somewhere!"

--> "'Not bad at all, but the worst is yet to come!', signed Duncan W. Adams. Still a joker, even after he's gone!"

* [[UselessItem Useless Items ]]: Not a lot, but they do take up a chunk of inventory space. Many of them are edible items, but only the apple and banana can be actually consumed - and you still carry around their remnants if you do eat them. There's also a key to Jerry Crabb's office that's broken along the shaft, and another, unmarked key that serves no purpose, although a statue in that office holds a large replica of it, for some reason.

* [[UselessItem UselessItems ]]: Not a lot, but they do take up a chunk of inventory space. Many of them are edible items, but only the apple and banana can be actually consumed - and you still carry around their remnants if you do eat them. There's also a key to Jerry Crabb's office that's broken along the shaft, and another, unmarked key that serves no purpose, although a statue in that office holds a large replica of it, for some reason.

* UselessItems: Not a lot, but they do take up a chunk of inventory space. Many of them are edible items, but only the apple and banana can be actually consumed - and you still carry around their remnants if you do eat them. There's also a key to Jerry Crabb's office that's broken along the shaft, and another, unmarked key that serves no purpose, although a statue in that office holds a large replica of it, for some reason.

* PasswordSlotMachine: Repairing a keypad's circuit board somehow automatically enters the correct code after the display flickers on and off while cycling different numbers. There's also another broken lock that makes each button cycle through certain numbers, and the key to entering the right code - which is taped to the safe - lies in pushing certain buttons enough times until they
* SceneryPorn: The design of Adams' mansion is incredibly detailed, down to the pictures on the walls and the house's architectural layout.

--> "'Not bad at all, but the worst is yet to come!'...Still a joker, even after he's gone!"

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Both games start with relatively simple safes, and escalate towards harder ones further on. The first game implies that Jerry Crabb set your mission up this way intentionally, though it's less clear if Mr. Adams did the same.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:

* SolveTheSoupCans: Duncan W. Adams' eccentricity shows around the house, to the point that even a ''light switch'' for the basement and the controls for the fountain are puzzles.

* ConcealingCanvas: played with in the dining room, where the painting covering a compartment is indeed a safe, but it and several other paintings are connected by wires that have to be rearranged in the right order before the one with the safe will open.

* SolveTheSoupCans: Duncan W. Adams' eccentricity shows around the house, to the point that even a ''light switch'' for the basement and the controls for the fountain are puzzles.

* MultipleEndings: When you finally get the will, your last puzzle is to decide which member of the family best deserves Mr. Adam's fortune. Or you can TakeAThirdOption and [[BreakingTheFourthWall let ''yourself'' be the heir.]]

* BookcasePassage: In the house's library, natch. The regular door to [[spoiler: Crabb's office]] is always locked, and the key for it is too damaged to work. What do you do instead? Use the hand scanner on the public entrance? No, your hand won't suffice, of course. Instead, there's a
* CrazyPrepared: Crabb & Sons appears to be prepared for any corporate situation, to the point where they even have an office for their own psychologist.

* ShoutOut: One of the computers usable in the game contains 3 games that parody ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'', ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', and ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject Buried In Time''.

* SceneryPorn: The design of Adams' mansion is incredibly detailed, down to the pictures on the walls and the house's architectural layout.

* FifteenPuzzle: One of the first safes encountered in the game has this, sitting in the lobby. [[GuideDangIt It's not written down anywhere, in-game or not]], but the strategy guide [[AntiFrustrationFeatures contains a cheat to bypass this]], by pressing the "Alt" key while clicking on the handle.

* {{Defictionalization}}: You can print your job contract and Duncan Adam's will.

* Defictionalization: You can print your job contract and Duncan Adam's will.

* BookcasePassage: In the house's library, natch. The regular door to [[Crabb's office]] is always locked, and the key for it is too damaged to work. What do you do instead? Use the hand scanner on the public entrance? No, your hand won't suffice, of course. Instead, there's a

** In the first game, ne of the first safes encountered plays this straight, sitting in the lobby. [[GuideDangIt It's not written down anywhere, in-game or not]], but the strategy guide [[AntiFrustrationFeatures contains a cheat to bypass this]], by pressing the "Alt" key while clicking on the handle.

* SchmuckBait: There's a long ornate strand of cloth that says "PULL", and a small sign next to it saying "please do not pull".

* SceneryPorn: The design of Adams' mansion is incredibly detailed, down to the pictures on the walls and the house's architectural layout.
* The person who hired you is a greedy descendant, whom you find later isn't to be trusted.