Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Remastered 12+

I thought I had the same issue being unable to move the theodolite, but if you scroll your mouse to the far right hand side first, out of the view of the theodolite, below the "?" you will see the little finger which will allow you to move it :P Hope that helps, keep your eyes open and look for the glinting of the marker

Nicely updated for the Mac. The story is good, and the dialogue is not intrusive. It is even pretty funny in places.

The game loads very quickly, so is excellent for a few grabbed minutes of play time to work on a puzzle. The design of the game is good in that you cannot get 'stuck' as such (you'll get stuck on puzzles, but never in a situation that means you cannot progress). I took about 10 hours (according to the game clock) to work my way through it. The only sticking point I had was with the theodolite about half way through the game - it is not clear that it moves, or how to move it to scan that landscape. It turns out there are arrows at the very edge of the screen that ony appear when you put your mouse pointer over the correct area. It took me a good while to work that out…

Overall, an excellent conversion and update of a very good game.

Alongside pandemonium and theme hospital, Broken Sword: Smoking Mirror were the first video games I ever played on my family computer (you know the one; Off white/ more like grey plastic body, about the size of a cardboard box, sounds like a wood chipper when you get it running, and you have to open the disc tray with a screwdriver).

This is such a wonderful blast form the past, and I could play this game over and over again. The Broken Sword games revolutionised the point-and-click puzzle genre. (Not so much in the modern games). So glad to see it revitalised on the mac store again!