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- Average Rating:3.7
- Helpful Votes:358,445
- Reviews Submitted:4711
- First Review:December 10, 2012
- Most Recent Review:March 30, 2025
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Heroes from the Past: Joan of Arc
Take a journey through medieval times. Help Joan of Arc to build a new kingdom and change the fate of the people in this epic story of honor and courage.
Overall rating
4
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5
95 of 109 found this review helpful
WARNING!
PostedFebruary 26, 2013
pennmom36
fromSmallville
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Cradle of Egypt
(92)Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This game is addictive! Heros is a game that is very similar to the Cradel series which I love. There are a couple of nice features, you get 3 options of match 3 such as the classic match at least 3 to click and drag a series of matches that are next in line. There is also 2 play modes, relaxed and timed. The music however is repetitive and annoying. You will earn gold to build a town helping the phesants along the way. As the game progresses you will complete the main section by dropping a key to the bottom of the board which will unlock another section of the board. You will collect axes, bombs, bows etc. along the way to help destroy the blocks. Have fun!
I recommend this game!
The Agency of Anomalies: Mystic Hospital
Investigate a military hospital that hosted a variety of terrifying experiments in The Agency of Anomalies: Mystic Hospital!
Overall rating
4
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5
3 of 5 found this review helpful
MYSTIC HOSPITAL
PostedFebruary 24, 2013
pennmom36
fromSmallville
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector's Edition
(103)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
I bought this game a while back but just got aroung to playing it, and I liked it. Even though the graphics are much better in recent times, they are still done really well, the cutscenes are are brief and just okay. I must admit that I was challenged quite a few times as to where to go or what to do, and found myself traveling back and fourth, building to building, room to room searching for something I missed, but that's kind of what I like about the games. There isn't a map for traveling and the hint system is worthless, showing you only what the solution would look like, not where to go, and if you skip a puzzle it will add time to your overall game finish time but since there aren't any achievements who cares? The game was old school but still a good game to play.
I recommend this game!
The Keepers: The Order's Last Secret Collector's Edition
The Order’s most closely-guarded secret sleeps deep beneath the ancient Spanish streets. What lies within this mysterious box?
Overall rating
5
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5
80 of 101 found this review helpful
IT'S A DEFINATE KEEPER
PostedFebruary 24, 2013
pennmom36
fromSmallville
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector's Edition
(103)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
I am a big fan of morphing objects and I enjoyed this game mostly because of the beyond objects as well as available achievements for not skipping mini games and not using the hint button during HO's! Pedro finds an ancient artifact (seems to be a lot of those lately) and three evil sisters of air/water/fire kill him, but he has already given the artifact to his sister to protect. You will work with her to protect the artifact as you uncover secret rooms and search the town. This game has a journal to record clues you uncover, and a map for traveling, but doesn't show what tasks are available. The HO's are interactive, you pick up the spoon and scoop a gem out of a skeletons eye, etc. and the items are pretty easy to find. The puzzles weren't to time consuming, nothing new, but they were enjoyable such as picking up a puzzle piece, rotating by right clicking and placing the piece in it's correct position. The graphics are well done and the cutscenes are movie quality, the developers paid attention to the details with the exception of a barrel marked "water" in Spain. I think there are enough activities in this game to keep a gamer of any expertese, beginner-expert, occupied and having fun.
I recommend this game!
Silent Scream II: The Bride
Jessica would never imagine that her big day would turn out to be a nightmare; they had an accident and Jonathan McNealy, her husband is missing.
Overall rating
4
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5
21 of 34 found this review helpful
A silent review
PostedFebruary 23, 2013
pennmom36
fromTattooine
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Hallowed Legends: Ship of Bones Collector's Edition
(96)Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
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5
Storyline
4
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5
Has potential, but kind of slow moving! If you like a lot of HO's then this is the game for you because there are a ton of them. Not to many puzzles and they were nothing new, jump the red jewels over the green jewels to switch sides, or click on hex stones to trap the rat from escaping. The storyline was good but after an hour demo the only thing I did was wash out my cuts from a car accident and I followed a ghost into the forest! It's a good game, the graphics are okay, but you don't have to put much thought into the game you will know what to pick up, where to use that item and how to use that item.
I recommend this game!
Surface: The Soaring City
Your brother is kidnapped during an air show. Search for him in a beautiful world where the sky is as wide as your imagination.
Overall rating
5
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5
28 of 31 found this review helpful
Another great Surface!
PostedFebruary 22, 2013
pennmom36
fromInfinity and Beyond
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector's Edition
(103)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
This game has a lot of activities throughout, although collectables and achievements are only available in the collecters edition. There are a ton of puzzles and most of them are simple, such as placing tokens where they belong beginning with man on the ground, a kite in the sky all the way up to the moon. There aren't a lot of HO's but they are interactive and some of the items will be used from your inventory to complete the HO scene such as there will be a vase in the HO scene and you will have to click on your inventory list to retrieve the rose you collected elsewhere in the game then place the rose in the vase. There is an excellent hint system that tells you what and where to use items or where to go to find that item. You will also have a map with tasks. There are many things to do and almost everything you find will be easy to figure out what to do with it and most items are used fairly quickly and within one or two areas. If you like the collectables:flowers in this game, or achievements go for the CE if not this SE is an excellent choice.
I recommend this game!
Hallowed Legends: Ship of Bones Collector's Edition
Follow the trail of the mysterious woman in white and discover the secret behind her terrible task!
Overall rating
5
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5
23 of 36 found this review helpful
Ship of Bones is a must have game!
PostedFebruary 21, 2013
pennmom36
fromInfinity and Beyond
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector's Edition
(103)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
I am a big fan of the Hallowed Legends series and this one might even top the list! What's not to like, scary eerie scenery, creepy music, hidden goblins and zombies all in the same game! There are 22 hidden goblins throughout the game and they have done a nice job hiding them. There are achievements for not using the hint button during HO's, not skipping puzzles, and finding different items in the game and more. The HO's are interactive such as picking up the cheese and placing it on the mousetrap, and they have done a super job of blending the hidden objects without making the items fuzzy or to dark. I liked the puzzles because they were easy to do and fun such as rotating a wheel full of colored marbles to have 3 of one color touch each other to remove those marbles. There are also subtle clues of numbers or pictures in some of the areas that will be used later in the game, but don't worry it is written in your journal. There is a map that allows you to travel between locations and has photos of each area you have explored and the photo is in color if you have a task to do in that area otherwise the photo is a brownish color. You meet a crow with glasses that is the towns historian and fills you in on details during the game about an exploration team that unearths an ancient book with great powers. When your plane crashed outside a cursed town where an evil woman was stealing the townspeople's souls and leaving behind zombie skeletons, your friend was injured and this mysterious woman took his soul as well. Now it is up to you to save him and the town before it's too late!
I recommend this game!
Death Pages: Ghost Library
Rescue teenagers from the tragic fate of Romeo and Juliet!
Overall rating
4
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5
16 of 19 found this review helpful
Trapped in the library!
PostedFebruary 20, 2013
pennmom36
fromInfinity and Beyond
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector's Edition
(103)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
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5
Good story, a few kids dissappeared in the library and you must investigate what happened to them. You learn that a madman has trapped them inside their favorite books as the main character! You will travel between the real world and enter a book portal where you will try to help each kid in their book world. The graphics are crisp and the details are well done. I turned down the music because it was distracting. There aren't too many HO scenes and they are reversed, you are given picture items in your inventory and you must place them into the scene. The puzzles are not new and they aren't hard but a little time consuming such as dividing up equal amounts of weights to balance a scale, rearranging a picture by sliding the pieces one tile at a time to the correct position to complete a portrait. The items you find will be used in the real world as well as the book world and visa versa and I will admit that at times you are lost as to where an item is to be used, but the hint system is very specific in casual mode and will tell you exactly where to go and what to do.
I recommend this game!
Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector's Edition
Experience a story about love so strong, it can overcome the most powerful evil! Explore visually stunning mystical dimensions and rescue your fiance!
Overall rating
5
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5
10 of 14 found this review helpful
Love the "BEYOND OBJECTS"
PostedFebruary 17, 2013
pennmom36
fromInfinity and Beyond
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Shadows: Price for Our Sins
(95)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
It's no secret that I love this developers games. I can always count on good entertainment. You will love the graphics on this game, eerie, spooky, just the right amount of darkness to draw you into the game until you forget about the time and become completely engrossed! You can play this game without having to play the other Sacra Terras but they are also excellent games. Your boyfriend was about to purpose when you leave for a second to answer the phone and he picks up an old spell book and starts to read a spell to summond a sucubus. Well be careful what you wish for, she appears and entraps your beau and dissapears as quickly as she appeared. Now you must travel to Sacre Terra, make your way over skeletons, clear away rubble and overgrown vines, find rusty keys and travel through portals to find him! You will find a map that will help you travel from area to area and show you which areas have tasks to complete. Another feature of the map "you can disable this feature" is an icon next to each area that changes from a heart to a skeleton to alert you where there are beyond objects "objects that change their shape" They could have put in more HO scenes in my opinion but they are done well, not to dark, and they are interactive such as opening up a box and zooming into the box to look for smaller items. The puzzles are simple such as flipping over tiles, remembering what the picture is and find a matching tile like a monkey/banana tile, nothing really new. I'm gonna go broke because the games this month are so good you want to buy them all!
I recommend this game!
Shadows: Price for Our Sins
Halloween decorations aren’t the only things hanging around spooky Stone Farm when a group of students unwittingly open a portal to the underworld.
Overall rating
5
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5
175 of 210 found this review helpful
Halloween in February!
PostedFebruary 16, 2013
pennmom36
fromDoes anyone read this?
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Shadows: Price for Our Sins
(95)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
I have to admit I wasn't expecting much when I downloaded this game, what an epic suprise! Even the beginning profile scene was awesome. First of all the graphics are crisp and high definition, the cutscenes are very well done, the cars look real, props such as cell phones look so real that you call even tell what kind of phone it is supposed to represent! A good story to follow along with, driving you along because you want to know more, ghostly characters you meet along the way each have a plight of their own, victims of black magic that you need to help move on. There are many puzzles that are pretty simple to do and won't have you pulling out your hair to figure out such as rotating puzzle pieces until you have a complete picture, or matching pairs of similar items. There is a map that allows you to travel quickly to any scene and shows you which scenes have tasks to preform. There aren't to many HO scenes and the items are well hidden and interactive such as finding sunglass lenses and putting them on the frame. The only complaint I have is that some of the hidden objects were so tiny that you could barely tell what they were. I know you will enjoy this halloween themed game and I plan on buying this to finish the story!
I recommend this game!
9: The Dark Side Of Notre Dame Collector's Edition
Find the festivalgoer abducted by the gargoyles of Notre Dame and uncover the cathedral’s dark past in this reimagining of the Victor Hugo’s classic tale.
Overall rating
5
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5
7 of 10 found this review helpful
Whats not to like?
PostedFebruary 16, 2013
pennmom36
fromDoes anyone read this?
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Motor Town: Soul of the Machine
(73)Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
/
5
This game has it all! Acheivements, beautiful graphics,wonderful music,and a cute little gargoyl to help you investigate. During a festival all the buildings gargoyals came to life and kidnapped the mayors daughter. Everyone thinks it was part of the festival so you must investigate without alarming anyone. Many different rooms and buildings to investigate, many items to collect and use throughout the game with challenging puzzles and fun HO's.This is a must buy!
I recommend this game!