10 Video Games Based On Real Life Stories

For many, the Freemason's lodge is nothing more than a glorified boys club, where the apparent bhadralok of high-society meet for a knees up. For other, more empirical minds for whom actual evidence is a hindrance, the society is an organisation shrouded in mystery, its members' collective fingers stirring many punch bowls of conspiracy.

Micro Application's historical adventure Mozart: The Conspirators of Prague takes the latter view. The game's story is a standard plot-boiler, concerning the masonic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's discovery of a scheme to overthrow Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, whilst in Prague to debut new opera Don Giovanni.

Though there's not a jot of evidence to suggest there was ever a hit on Jo's head, the Austrian musical maestro's connection with the shadowy cabal is well-established. At the tail end of his life, the composer was inducted into the society alongside his mentor Joseph Haydn, a development which manifested in his latter-day compositions, from the Mason's three-note knocking motif appearing in opera The Marriage of Figaro's overture, to the self-evident 1785 dirge Maurerische Trauermusik - literally, a Masonic funeral march. In 1785, Mozart became a master Mason, surrounding himself with members of the club up until his untimely death six years later.