Kuros Review
Kuros is an adventure point and click, puzzle solving Mac game. There are some hidden object games where when you click on the scene, you will get a wheel of outlined objects you must search, find, click on, and drag the item to the silhouette. 
You play as a young woman who cannot remember who she is and where she is. Thus begins your search for her identity and why she is in this strange world. You can click on as many items you wish since this is a point and click game. You will combine the many objects you pick up along the way and use them for tasks or puzzles like putting the color gems to light up and open doors. Once solved, it will access different things. Be sure to take your cursor to the edge of the screen because many times an arrow will appear taking you to different scenes. In order to reach your next destination, you must collect all the map pieces. Once collected, you must put it together in a jigsaw puzzle.
There are many puzzles to solve before you can advance to another location. In order to reach the Oracle’s tree house you must complete 4 slide picture puzzles. Each completed puzzle will give you a land mass and get closer to the tree. If you wish to skip a puzzle, you must 
find a Scrying Orb in a scene. You may have to go back to the first few environments to find this and other helps you will need along the way. The Chromatic Lens will reveal random hidden objects. However, these helps are few and far apart, not to mention you do not know what they look like. Use these helps wisely and do not squander them because you do not want to do a particular puzzle. Most of the puzzles are not difficult and can be solved by a little logic like guiding the ball through the maze. The wand comes in handy for lighting the way in a dark room. Once you figure out how to light the room, you will no longer need the wand.
Kuros is not a particularly long game, but has a lot of puzzles you need to solve logically. I get the feeling that there is a sequel coming soon. I wouldn’t say this is a hidden object game because most of the time you are just point and clicking your way through until the next mini puzzle. However it is an adventure looking for this woman’s identity and whereabouts with original and creative drawings to look at. The voice over is fine and since you can click on the written words, you can move quickly by the story if you wish. I am both a puzzle and HOG person so enjoyed the mini games but wished the hidden object part could have been extended to searching for listed items. Try the demo and see what you think.
Features of Kuros:
-An Adventure Story
-Many Objects to Find
-Great Graphics
-A Lot of Logic Puzzles
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Letters from Nowhere Review
Mac game Letters from Nowhere sets the scenes for an interesting search for a lot of stuff. In other words it is a good hidden object play. The story begins with Audrey being followed by a stranger on her way home. Once there she waits for her husband, Patrick, who does not show up. The police are unwilling or unable to help so she starts the investigation on her own. Not entirely on her own. She finds letters 
from nowhere and thus begins her adventure into the unknown. Who is writing these notes, are they from her husband and what is she getting herself into?
As mentioned before, there are a lot of cluttered HOG scenes with a few mini puzzles. The HOG scenes will have the list of items you need to find at the bottom of the screen. Some of the objects will have to be put together to cross off the list. For instance, doll is listed but 
you will need to find the head and body to put them together before it will be removed from the listed items. The hint button is the magnifying glass to the right of the list and recharges quickly, however, if you use it, you will be lose a lot of points. You’ll lose more points if you click on too many wrong items. The points are important since you can unlock bonuses with them. One such bonus is the thermometer. When you find the thermometer in a scene, it will register hot/cold when you are close or far from a listed object.
The few puzzles in this game are easy to do and not very challenging. There are jigsaw puzzles and memory games. If you do the mini 
games and not skip them, you will win a collective stamp. There’s a Trophy room for all the awards you win. In addition there are 3 stamps in each scene. If you find all 50 stamps, you unlock the Unlimited Mode at the end of the game.
Letters from Nowhere is a good solid HOG. Its not too easy and you may need to use the hint button, although it will cost you. However, it is not so hard that you will get frustrated. The artwork is good and the sound okay. The side games do not distract from the main play and the awards and stamps only add to the play. The story, however, did not engage me that much and the ending left you hanging. I guess that may be the whole point and you have to wait for the sequel. I give it a 3 out of 5 for all the scenes and objects.
Features of Letters from Nowhere:
-Good Hidden Object Plays
-Find the mystery of Patrick’s Disappearance
-Trophy Room and Stamp Awards
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The Clumsys 2: The Butterfly Effect Review
This sequel to The Clumsys takes up with Grandpa returning home from the past in his homemade time machine, only to find he brought back a dead prehistoric butterfly. Everyone knows when you disturb anything in the past, it alters everything up to the present. This is proven by the historic photos Grandpa keeps on his wall to make sure he doesn’t change anything while time traveling. Helen, his 
daughter, takes matters into her own hands and decides to go back to the past and make things right again.
The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect is just as good and enjoyable as the first hidden object Mac game. The historic facts are brought to life when you search through Thomas Edison’s home looking for pieces of the famous phonograph. After searching rooms for all the pieces, 
you must put the machine back together again. These subtle historic facts are fun to experience in this detailed hidden object game. The items you need to find are pictured on the screen. After finding all the pieces, you recreate the broken inventions, and then you must remove the things that do not belong in the past like cell phones, cassettes and other more modern gadgets.
There are many discoveries by man and Helen has her hands full finding each one to repair and make correct. After a few inventions, you get the hang of putting things back together again using simple logic. Whenever you move your cursor over an area and it changes to gears, you need to exam that area closer.
Much of Clumsys 2 is reminiscent of the first Clumsys and could get tiring after awhile, but the educational aspect of both these games are 
great for children. I liked the facts that were given for each invention or discovery. It brought back memories of many hours of studying but in a pleasurable way. The hidden object part of the game is not challenging, but still a hoot to play. If you should need a hint, they are available and interesting in their own right. The artwork is good, clear and entertaining (unlike some other HOGs where you can’t make out the item). The sound effects are appropriate and Grandpa’s ranting is very funny. Enjoy yourself going back in time and re-inventing the many innovations of mankind.
Features of The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect:
-Help Helen Correct History
-30 Puzzles
-90+ Scenes
-3 Gadget Tools
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Dark Tales: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat Collector’s Edition Review
Dramatic introduction, eerie music and bloody scene starts off your adventure in Mac hidden object/seek and find mystery game Dark Tales: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat Collector’s Edition. The play will draw you into the dark and seamy side of the mind of Edgar Allen Poe and the many facets of his writing.
You play a detective working with an inspector Chevalier Dupin investigating the disappearance of a Sarah Davies the wife of Mark Davies. Even though she has been missing for almost 2 weeks, she has been seen in and around her estate with a black cat. In fact, you saw her in the window of her home with the black cat. Confronting Mr. Davies at the front door about his wife being seen at the window only brings indignation and denial. Why is this husband acting so strangely? What is he hiding? Why is half his house in such disarray? These are only a few questions you need answered to find the missing woman.
To begin your play you choose from regular mode where the recharge for the skip and hint buttons are shorter and the hidden object games are twinkling. In the expert mode the hint and skip buttons are longer and the active areas are not shown. There is a tutorial if you wish to use it. The note book at the bottom right of the screen will give you written information. There is an inventory file where your 
found items will go for future use. The hidden objects to search will be listed at the bottom of the screen and when you find an item, it will cross off the file.
There are many locked areas where you must figure out how to open it by using tools or pieces from other areas to use. You will be going from scene to scene and back again. Sometimes you will return to the same environment for another hidden object game. You feel like you are unlocking one door after another. There are many puzzles to solve and most of the puzzles may need pieces from other rooms before 
you can begin to solve them. The cursor will change to an eye if you need to inspect it closer and will change to a hand when you need to grab and keep an item.
Dark Tales: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat Collector’s Edition is a solid HOG/seek and find with many puzzles. The artwork is good and the music appropriately creepy. Unfortunately, the story didn’t engage you enough, HOG scenes are repeated and it seems you are always trying to unlock something. I give it a 3 out of 5 for a good game.
Features of Dark Tales: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat Collector’s Edition:
-6 Chapters of Hidden Object/Seek and Find Games
-Puzzles and Mini Games
-Walkthrough and Bonus Adventure
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Haunted Legends: The Queen of Spades Review
Haunted Legends: The Queen of Spades is a Mac hidden object adventure. It has your customary haunted mansion, crazy contessa, enchanted playing cards, murdered people, vicious gnome and a lot of objects to look for, obstacles to overcome and puzzles to solve. You might think if you’ve done one, you’ve done them all, but it’s not the case with this game.
Decide which mode you would like to play: Regular with sparkles for Hidden Object games and fast recharging for hint and skip buttons or pick Expert for no sparkles 
and longer recharging time. You are an inspector sent to this small town where the local police are too frightened to investigate the case and one of their own police officer has disappeared behind the mansion doors. It is said, and the townspeople believe, that the Contessa that lived in this manor found enchanted playing cards and has the power to make anyone rich and powerful. One young woman, Verna Douleur, was enticed enough to try and get this magic for herself, but she died a ghastly death. There are dead bodies you will need to investigate but it isn’t really gruesome. You will need to point and click around scenes to pick up items needed for later use or zoom in and investigate further. During your search, look for playing cards. You’ll need to find the entire deck, 52 cards. If you want to view your found cards, click on the card icon at the bottom left of the screen.
When you see sparkles (or in the expert mode you will need to search for these areas), click on them to open up the hidden object game. You may need to interact with the scene in order to be able to click on the object. The scenes are all very clear and you will not have any trouble finding the items. If you cannot find an object, click on the hint button for help. It will take a few seconds to recharge for the regular mode and longer for the expert mode. You will go back to the same HOG to play that area again. Most of the puzzles are unlocking things from safes, doors and other things. You may need to find keys or mechanical parts like a handle, gear, wires or slide to complete the puzzle before you can actually try to solve it. Most of these are simple enough to solve but if you want to skip them,
you may. The point and click adventure part of the game is fun to do. You will need to search for things you will need later in the games. Most items in your inventory will be fairly obvious where you will be able to use them, but there’s so many things, you may forget. The game will let you know when you are using an item in the wrong area. There is a diary at the bottom right to help you with some of the clues and important things.
So even though the story is typical of these types of games, Haunted Legends: The Queen of Spades is still interesting to play, the artwork is good, music unusual but it works and there are many items for you to point and click your way through this adventure. The adventure to puzzle ratio is balanced and the length of the game is good. Just catch that scary gnome and find the answers to all the murders.
Features of Haunted Legends: The Queen of Spades:
-Interesting Story and Fun Adventure
-Hidden Objects and Mini Puzzles
-Good Artwork and Great Music
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