Covert Front

Covert Front has an amazing atmosphere—these are exactly the kinds of games I love to play :)

a game from my youth

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I used to play that game with my mom when I was four, and then I couldn't find it for a long time

Part 6 We head back out into the hallway (the third door is a dead end—the room with boarded-up windows certainly doesn’t offer a charming view of the countryside) and down the stairs. What haven’t we explored yet? The door next to the alcove under the stairs leads to a modest little room where we’ll just read a letter addressed to someone named Manfred (who the heck is that?). There’s nothing interesting to the right (the bathroom) or left (the boiler room) of Professor von Toten’s portrait, but to the left of the portrait is a slot for a signet ring. Let’s use it, and another secret room will open. We climb down the ladder—it’s pitch black. We light the kerosene lamp with matches. And lo and behold—there’s a fuse on the floor. We go right—some kind of boiler—then right again—it’s pitch black… but no, the lights come on after a moment. Thank goodness. We place the third fuse in the empty slot next to the other two fuses (on that panel) and turn on the contraption.
Damn it! Alarm! Let’s get out of here! We head right, pry open the grates with a crowbar, and squeeze through into the cellar. It’s pitch black again… Even matches don’t help—well, we’ll just have to enjoy it some more in Covert Front 2!

Graphics 1, Sound 1, Story 1, Difficulty 2, Overall 1 - An excellent game!!!

Part 2: Go to the locked door and use the crowbar on the lock. Then head inside! Take the similar crowbar you find there. Go up the stairs to the first door on the left and click on the lamp on the table. Take the book and go outside. Don’t go through the second door—there’s nothing there. Go outside and turn left again. Click on the small wall in the back and use the crowbar to open the sewer. Go into the sewer, then click on the wheel and go to the kitchen. Next to the stove is a small passageway to the basement; go inside and then through the door.

Part 5 We go upstairs and then take the stairs in the hallway to the next floor. Three doors. We go into the first one on the left. Someone must have been about to leave—what the hell is that blood on the floor? A gun? Oh well, we’ll grab the book from the nightstand, head back out into the hallway, and go through the door on the right—that’s the library. The key will come in handy.
In the library, there’s a hole in the bottom shelf. Slip our book right in there. On each shelf, you can click on three books with different ornaments on the front cover. We’re not interested in the wavy lines, three dots, suns, or decorative borders. But those two books with the eagle do interest us, and they’ll let us enter the secret room. There’s something unknown on a pedestal in there, so let’s grab it—it might come in handy, right? We’ll open the locked cabinet with the key and take the signet ring. Personally, I’d prefer the rest of it, but as an agent, I’m probably well-paid… So I’ll settle for just the plans on the table in the lower left corner.

I’m attaching the complete walkthrough so everything’s in one place. We’re at von Toten’s house. To the right of the door, there’s a piece of hose under the ivy. There are scissors in the box. To the left of the door, hidden among the ivy, is an open cabinet containing some sort of “ancestral” home security system (I don’t even know if that existed in 1904), but never mind that—we’ll use the scissors to cut the wires and let ourselves in.

Great game—it just took me a while to figure it out.