Within this single trilogy the evolution of hidden object games can be seen. The first offered screens full of clutter, punctuated by completely random puzzles which had nothing to do with the story.
Tag: Hidden Object Games
HOGuru Previews – Persian Nights: Sands of Wonders
It’s another game preview from the good folks at Artifex Mundi! This time it’s Prince of Persia-themed, as well as being another entry in the unofficial ‘herbalist’ series of games that give players a chance to make the healing potions that keep adventurers spry and vigorous!
HOGuru Plays – Agent Walker: Secret Journey
Wartime isn’t a particularly popular setting for Hidden Object Games – they are, by their very nature, not particularly combat-intensive – so I was excited to see how the developers at Brave Giant were going to handle the combination.
HOGuru Plays – Haunted Hotel
With this game, I delve back into the history of HOGs, to a time when players were expected to just be happy that they were faced with a screen full of random garbage and a list of specific things to click on. A time before narrative coherence, integrated puzzles, or any conception of fairness in HOS design.
HOGuru Plays – Small Town Terrors: Livingston
After a car crash caused by a stubborn unwillingness to just run over a zombie, the game’s main character is thrown into a coma, from which she awakes in plenty of time to discover that the town she was unlucky enough to convalesce in has been wholly run over by zombies!
HOGuru Plays – Demon Hunter 2: New Chapter
At the end of the first Demon Hunter game the stakes were clearly set – the main character had been ushered into a new world full of supernatural dangers, as well as an ancient battle which she was the only one qualified to fight.
HOGuru Plays – Nightmares From The Deep 2: The Siren’s Call
I’d played the last game in the Nightmares From The Deep series, and enjoyed it thoroughly, so my expectations were high going into this game. I’ll start off this piece by saying that yes, they were met, and this is another high-quality game published by Artifex Mundi, but in addition to general production excellence, the game had something of a huge surprise for me.
Mystery Trackers: Paxton Creek Avenger Review
Phantom Of The Concert Hall
HIGH Meeting the REAL Paxton Creek Avenger
LOW Maybe the worst sliding block puzzle I’ve ever encountered.
WTF I know, I’ll put my dog onto that toy boat and remote-control him to the other side! How can that go wrong?
HOGuru Reviews – Demon Hunter: Chronicles From Beyond
Demon Hunter: Chronicles From Beyond has the least surprising villain reveal I’ve ever encountered. I’m truly baffled that the developers could have included this sequence in a game that is, by all appearances, not a parody or satire.
HOGuru Reviews – Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily
An old hotel battered by a winter storm, guests and proprietors trapped together by circumstance, and a vicious killer hell-bent on exacting revenge for the death of a young woman some years earlier – did I accidentally start playing The Axiom Butcher again?
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