Still Life might be named after its predominant themes of art and murder, but I wonder if it could also be in reference to its own gameplay and mechanics: for a Point & Click game, there isn't really a lot of pointing nor clicking here.

It does have an interesting, multi-layered story that helps bear the burden of actually playing it. Here, a session's duration is likely to be inflated by dozens of repeated attempts at decrypting some of the most obtuse puzzles I've ever seen in gaming.
In Still Life you're in charge of solving Zodiac-like murders - yet the biggest threat to your deduction skills will be to figure out how to bake a batch of Christmas cookies after reading some game-writer's fever dream recipe.

Where the release truly shines however is in its cutscenes and shameless aesthetics.
This is a grand feast of the most iconic and tacky video-editing formulas only found on proper (early 2000s) thriller/horror movies, fully capable of causing indigestion to any fedora-loving cinephile - and I'm here for it.

Complete this game and you'll accomplish a feat beyond belief, the one to finally uncover an entire catalogue of homicides that have been taking place across 3 whole generations between Chicago and Prague. Though a bigger mystery remains: who's the actual psychopath responsible for the whole "add 1/2 cup of integrity, 1 teaspoon of sensuality" ginger biscuits bs.