Zounds! One of the guests at an English house party has fallen victim to cold-blooded murder. Your weekend in the country is ruined! What choice have you but to ask your fellow guests probing questions, search the house, draw astonishingly insightful conclusions and solve the crime?

​In OverHerd you play an English nobleman in charge of an over-enthusiastic catapult unit. Your assignment? Demolish the wall of your enemy’s castle by firing livestock at it. The challenge? You have to do it in the dark of night using only sound to guide you. If you score three hits before sunrise, the enemy walls will be breached and your army will be able to  successfully assault the castle!
Second Stab is a rogue-like point-and-click puzzle game that takes the challenges and thrills of W&M’s 2016 A Matter of Murder to a whole new level. Solve progressively more challenging  mysteries in Case Mode — or try your sleuthing hand at Generative Mode, which dynamically combines puzzle elements to create a fresh story every time you play.
Worthing & Moncrieff’s second title is a satirical strategy game called “Austen Translation.” Think Jane Austen meets the Dating Game with a dash of Flintstones thrown in. It’s a tongue-in-cheek riff on caustic literary rivalries, appalling preconceptions of the roles of women and men, and, of course, the unending quest to marry well. 
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​HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven visual novel set in a retro-futuristic sci-fi universe. You play the under-appreciated Humanoid Resources Officer aboard the Endeavor — a military spaceship with more than its fair share of crew rivalries, office politics, and erratic decision-makers. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode? 

The Next Big Thing for W&M

Worthing & Moncrieff is excited to announce their newest title, A Matter of Murder: Second Stab, which will release in the second half of 2025. Second Stab is a rogue-like point-and-click puzzle game that takes the challenges and thrills of W&M’s 2016 A Matter of Murder to a whole new level. Solve progressively more challenging  mysteries in Case Mode — or try your sleuthing hand at Generative Mode, which dynamically combines puzzle elements to create a fresh story every time you play.

Open Call for Playtesters

We are currently signing up playtesters for A Matter of Murder: Second Stab. Please visit the ss-playtesters channel on our Discord server for more information and to apply.

our team


ERIC HAMEL
A graduate of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Eric continues to explore the crossover between the theatre arts and digital interactive storytelling. Before co-founding Worthing & Moncrieff, Eric began his game development career working on the Audio team at Mythic Entertainment and is currently an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

 


MARC HARPIN
Marc studied writing at Rhode Island College before going on to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He currently runs the design firm Rhumba, and is a practicing playwright. He is a co-founder of Worthing & Moncrieff.