SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour

SPQR is a 3D adventure game that challenges you to learn how the Roman Empire works - structurally, mechanically, economically, culturally and politically. Players are given one year to investigate five equally suspicious suspects in order to solve the ultimate mystery: Who is plotting to destroy Rome and how will they do it?

The player is an unnamed character, a friend of the inventor Cornelius who has been arrested. His arrest was on the suspicion that he is involved with the Calamitus, a figure who intends to destroy Rome. The game starts underneath Cornelius's workshop, and once the player has entered the workshop itself they receive a message about his arrest. The message also gives the names of five possible Calamiti: