Curious Cases
My friend and I completed this together, both in VR. The graphics are good, the environments are well-designed, and the puzzles are interesting and mostly fair. We encountered a handful of bugs, but nothing game-breaking. Occasionally one of us would pick up an item and it would appear in the other’s hand. Once, we entered a correct code, got the “success” noise, but the door wouldn’t open. Luckily, we were able to reach inside and remove the items through the door anyway.
We were stuck for a long time in the first room on a puzzle that requires a numeric code. We’d just played this developer’s Tales of Escape, which is very similar. In that game, every lock requires exactly 4 digits. It wasn’t until we relented and got a hint that we realized this one needed 5 digits. Also, the code in the hint had two digits transposed.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
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I would say this is a great escape room-like puzzle game with friends, it might be tedious or annoying by yourself.
It’s got some rather interesting puzzles/riddles, and it’s well worth it’s price for what it offers, so I’d recommend it.
As for a VR experience, it’s mediocre at best, but works. That’s my summary of the review, if you want to read a bit more, see below.
One gripe I would have would be the sync between players in your game. You could’ve thrown an object across the room, yet the other player sees you drop it, the other player picks it up, then drops it normally and it falls through the ground for both players, requiring you to reset items. Or, items just wouldn’t be there for one or both of the players, causing you to reset items. You will be doing this often.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Escape First 3
If you’re a fan of escape the room games all the different deliveries by Onskull Games are very recommended. The Escape First saga is one of their best. Technically speaking all of them have problems, repeated with each delivery, like objects clipping through other objects and surfaces, free locomotion which is incredibly slow and sometimes does not work, strange configurations for the controls (on Index at least), the scale is totally off sometimes, etc, nothing that you can’t forgive or solve by resetting objects, though.
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
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We generally really enjoyed the game but we hat huge peoblems regarding bugs!! We were a party of 3 and did the chair riddle, where they had to face a certain direction. We got into an argument because I said my chair is facing front, friend one said its facing back, and friend two said its facing right. Turns out, all of us were correct because for some reason the game displayed the room differently for all of us which made the riddle unsolvable! and in the end, when the bookshelve opens friend one saw it open and went through, I didnt see it open, but just ghost ran thrugh the shelve, but friend two got stuck in the wall. Super fun concept, but very frustrating and at times unplayable. Very dissapointed because the premise and riddles themselves were fun…
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Hide and Shriek
Let me dispel some common criticisms:
-Nobody plays this game anymore
This is a halloween-themed game, so yes, for those of you complaining in June that nobody plays this game, jump in around October and you’ll get plenty of games in.
-No updates
Fuck off, this game was perfect the first time and does not need “updates”, this isn’t League of Legends
-Only one map
See above. Also, this was meant to be picked up one time a year. One map is plenty. I have a feeling the people who complain about there only being one map are the same people who only play Final Destination on Smash.
– Real player with 74.7 hrs in game
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tl;dr version: Is this the kind of game you’ll play for ages and have ranked tournaments with months from now? No. Is it $5 worth of Halloween entertainment for the next month or so? Absolutely!
Hide and Shriek is a very well balanced 1v1 scarematch game where you have to either outscore or outscare (or ideally both) your opponent. The fact that resources are randomly distributed - even the runes you use to craft spells are randomly chosen at the start of the match - means that there’s no one preferred location or ideal loadout you can use. Having to continually scramble about looking for resources and never quite having the right spell components in place keeps it from being too comfortable at any point. (It is admittedly true that sometimes the RNG blesses you with abundant resources of exactly the right kind for your strategy but you can never count on this being true.)
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
SpyParty
Okay, so I never ever never write game reviews on steam. Until now, because SpyParty is such a great game, and I want to maybe get some people who treat the game like a party game to view it from a different angle, and to briefly sum up what the game is, and what it isn’t.
The gameplay/content:
The spy is hiding in the party, while the sniper tries to discern them from the innocent partygoers. So far, so easy; especially since when booting up the game for the first time, you will be presented with a severely simplified experience, as to not overwhelm a new player. Then new missions for the spy to complete, as well as fresh venues to play on will be unlocked after a certain number of wins, to gradually deepen the experience.
– Real player with 1278.3 hrs in game
So I never really played video games until I found SpyParty. And what a challenge. At first glance, its EZPZ. You’ll jump into a mode where you learn 4 missions and play other people with just about the same number of games and play. You’ll play until you kind of figure out what you’re playing and then your world expands; A LOT. You get access to 4 other missions and the sniper has to look for more.
The more you play, the more you realize you need to be like the AI to succeed. Yes, you need to do missions but it takes SOOO much skill to know how to be an AI and not get shot by the top players of this game. I have 9000 games played and it still doesn’t cease to teach me new things about the game each time I die.
– Real player with 930.4 hrs in game
Vampire & Monsters: Mystery Hidden Object Games - Puzzle
Short version: It’s mostly just HOGs like other Crisp App Studio games, but it is enjoyable enough.
There’s no real story here and no proper ending, this is purely a Hidden Object Game with a few spot the differences thrown in and a handful of rotate the tiles to make the picture (easy). Once you’ve discovered enough of the hidden objects you can choose to try to beat the scene within 2 minutes.
Each scene has a set of objects, each time you play the scene you get given roughly half of those objects to find.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Vampire & Monsters: Hidden Object Games - this is a logical game in the genre and adventure. The interface is very simple and clear, all this is expressed through bright and pleasant colors of shades, the whole game came out very colorful, which gives a big plus to the game. The characters themselves are very well developed and the background music is likewise interesting. Also, they improved the levels by adding in more than double the amount of items to find so if you replayed the level you are still finding new items. There are various tasks in the game: finding objects, finding differences, searching for the same items. At the same time, there are simple tasks, and there are those that you will have to break your head on.I recommend this for some casual, quiet fun with great graphics and objects for a super low price
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Mystery Island - Hidden Object Games
for a i spy type game is kind of boring and way too much text for a story line that is well boring and not worth reading. The waiting hours to get enough energy to do the next level is well stupid because this is a time based game to get achievement while making you wait way too long to do a short level. Other problems include so you have an item that you know you need for level but because it has not appeared on your list yet you have to go all the way around the level finding enough items just so you can go back to click on that object you had your mouse right next to making you waste over a minute just to find 7 other items just to go back yea that makes things stupid. The graphics are sorry but they are quite bad for being large pictures and could have been better or at least made them actually look like cartoons if you are going to attempt to make things look real then use realistic colors.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
Hum… The pastime. The game is a pure HO one. The graphics are OK, nothing special. The music seems to be a track in a loop or feels like it.
No bugs or crashes. Runs fine on Win 7.
Yeah, it used to be for free before, but the modest price is not bad for the content. The game is very casual. You can finish it in one sit. It ends on a “cliffhanger” and the promise that it will continue. Let’s wait and see. Nevertheless, the game, the story, is complete. There’re not many games out there that are completely Hidden Object, so if that’s what you like, it can provide some light entertainment. Just don’t expect wonders and the experience might be just fine.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Hidden Object Adventure: Captain Nemo. Objets Cachés
Nice game. The interface is very simple and clear. The task is to look for different things, with each level of things more and more difficult to find, which adds interest to the game. Surprised me in this game that it look around at 360°. Story of this game will not let you get bored. I recommend it to all those who want to spend a couple of evenings in a pleasant game.
– Real player with 26.2 hrs in game
Maybe it’s just me but this was the most painfully tedious game I have played in a very long time.
Scrolling in game is slow, spot the difference levels are far harder than the regular levels with only 1 support or hint option available and again the items in game are continuous through out the game without any relevance to story,
1 star out of 10 for having achievements available
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Time Trap - Hidden Objects Puzzle Game
very creepy vibe throughout game which is brought about by the advancing story such as is through notes and the music. The game is not long as I completed it in a little over an hour and a half but you can go back or as you go along in the story to get stars (up to three per scene} for achievements as well as completing each scene in under two minutes. When you get a three star you probably beat the two minute speed setting. this extended my play another four hours. While the object placement in scene repeats don’t change it was still fun to work the short term memory muscle. Purchased game at a 20% discount through a packaged sale but I say it’s worth the full price.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Time Trap is one of those games that I enjoy but have a hard time putting my finger on exactly why. The presentation has a lot to be desired, and the writing could certainly use some polishing up by an English speaking proof reader. But the story isn’t why I’m here. Despite the abundance of HOPAs on Steam, there’s a dearth of pure hidden object games on the platform. And sometimes I just want to load up a game and shut my brain down while I search for objects on my screen.
And search for objects I did. Actually, if you’re working towards 100%-ing the game, you’ll be playing each scene over and over until you’ve successfully collected all of the items and scored 3 stars. While this admittedly can be a bit of a grind, I found it quite enjoyable. Learning all of the objects' placements and quickly picking them out was satisfying in a way that’s hard to describe. Using the HINT button for those particularly difficult to find items doesn’t feel like much of a penalty either, but it’s actually nice to have a HOG that doesn’t enforce no-hint playthroughs for achievements. For those looking for even more challenge, there are leader boards for each HOS. This was something I wasn’t particularly interested in myself, but it adds replay for those who are so inclined.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
SPYCITY
DAY ONE GANGGG
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
10/10 Would Recommend, The Blonde Police Officer Is Mad Fine.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game