Play Cliff Diver, P.I. - Case 2 Online

Cliff Diver, P.I. - Case 2 was released as part of the MS-DOS Classic Games collection, though details about its original developer or publisher are sparse. It fits right into that era of experimental, often eccentric PC titles that didn't shy away from bizarre premises. You play a private investigator whose methods are, to put it mildly, unconventional.

You control the detective directly, moving him through a side-scrolling environment to interview witnesses and gather clues. The primary goal is to solve the case, but the real signature is how you travel: by diving off cliffs into small bodies of water far below. You must judge the wind speed and direction for each jump, typing in a power and angle for your dive. Get it wrong, and you plummet onto the rocks. The pacing is slow and deliberate until you're at a cliff edge, where it becomes a tense physics puzzle. It feels equal parts absurd and strangely compelling when you nail a perfect dive after several messy failures.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".