Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet Review
Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet is more than a hidden object game, much more. It is based on the characters from James Patterson’s bestselling murder mystery novels by the same name. Your job is to track down the coldblooded, barbaric serial killer. The first victim is a young Asian woman found beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in foggy San 
Francisco. You must uncover evidence as you play through several investigations. At the end, you will be able to solve the ghastly crimes of this bay city.
The investigation begins with a cartoon strip prelude to the murder mystery. The phone call goes to Lindsay Boxer, homicide detective. You are there with her at the murder scene under the bridge. You are to find objects from the list in Lindsay’s notebook. Within all the hidden object games are different types of mini puzzles. These puzzles also advance the investigation and will help reveal information.
Objects found are labeled and put in the Inventory Pad as useful or important clues and sometimes used to advance the play. A twig found on the scene is later used to distract a crab who had a diamond stud earring, an important clue. In the Investigation Docket Tab the key pieces are organized here and helps check the progress of the inquiries and what remaining pieces you may need. In the Investigation Card section the evidence cards are classified in file folders by subject and can be inspected anytime. In addition, there are 5 hints per investigation so you need to be careful and conserve these items. The number of hints is shown on the police badge in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
The investigation can move from the murder site with Lindsay Boxer to her police station or lab with Claire Washburn, the 
forensic examiner. The game is full of characters from the novel, even a newspaper reporter to a police translator. It also takes you step by step of police investigations and what tests and procedures they go through.
This Mac game is so involved and detailed you need to block a few hours of quiet time for yourself so you can give your full attention to the investigations. It will draw you into this murky, deadly world of murders with not only the hidden object sections but all the different mini puzzles. I found that some of the objects were difficult to make out, however the dead body was a little too realistic for me. It gave me the creeps. It is not for young children due to the subject matter and the graphic and realistic pictures of dead people. If you are a James Patterson or murder mystery novel fan, then you will be entertained filtering out the criminal in the Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet. Enjoy yourself in this hidden object with lots of other puzzle games in the misty, shadowy background of San Francisco.
Features of WMC: Death in Scarlet
-New Storyline
-18 San Francisco Locations
-9 Unique Investigations
-Many Different Puzzles
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Agatha Christie: Peril at End House Review
Agatha Christie, murder mystery novel and movie fans will enjoy this clever hidden object Mac game. This game will get you involved in the detective work by rewarding you with clues when the different levels are solved. There are more puzzles within this hidden object game to help break up the searching for clues/objects.
It is set in St Loo a small village on the coast of Cornwall, England in 1927. Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective, is called to End House to investigate murder attempts on Miss Nick Buckly the owner of the estate. It is your job to find the culprit by finding items on the grounds and in the house in order to stop any deadly deeds.
From the map of the estate of End House showing the landscape and various rooms in the house, you are to go from room to room and areas outside to uncover any and all clues of solving this mystery. Click on the gold colored section to begin your investigation, and it will reveal an area full of objects and clues to find. Poirot will give you a list of items, and you have 25 minutes and only 5 hints to go over the room and discover the objects. Some of the things are not relevant to the crime, but others could be useful for solving the mystery. In this hidden objects game you not only find the item, but sometimes you must move the object around the game board.
After finding all the pieces on the list this investigation is over, and you will be rewarded a clue card. This is a statement from a suspect or colleague who may or may not help you. These cards are stored in the clue room to be read without a time limit later in the game.
Bonus rounds between levels will offer more clues to your investigation. For example, after finding scraps of newspaper in the garden, you must put the torn pieces like a jigsaw puzzle back together so you can read the pertinent article in print in order to receive another clue.
After playing through 13 investigations and uncovering clues, you will come to the end of the game and will review all the clues and testimonies and hopefully be able to reveal “whodunit”.
The hidden object part of the game is relatively easy at first but gets more difficult further into the game. The hints are helpful, but there are only 5 of them per investigation so you have to use them carefully. I wasted 2 hints looking for an item that was off the page and not visible or reachable. I had to shrink the screen in order to see the location of the object. Another thing to watch is clicking on everything to find a hard to see item, because you will be penalized 30 seconds off your time. However, the 25 minute time limit is more than enough to search for most of the things on the list.
I don’t usually play hidden object/I spy games unless there’s another draw attached to it, and this one had the right one for me, Agatha Christie. Anyone who has read her novels or who likes I spy puzzles will really enjoy spending some time working and solving the Peril at End House. Also the music is very good and appropriate to the time period. So get to detecting and catch the criminal while having fun at the same time.
Features of Agatha Christie: Peril at End House:
-Objects to discover
-Puzzles
-13 Characters
-25 Different Rooms
-Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Novel
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Pocahontas: Princess of Powhatan Review
It is 1606 England and the mighty, powerful Virginia Company of London is sending Captains Smith and Newport to the New World in Pocahontas: Princess of Powhatan Mac game. In this hidden object/I spy game history is re-enacted in artwork representing all the cast and characters of this enchanting and sometimes romanticized time. Before any voyage can be undertaken supplies must be bought from the market place and loaded on the majestic English ships of yore.
The first hidden object scene is of the market place where you will need to search for many items in the picture. However, after the ship voyage, the remainder of the scenes is in the New World along the James River where the Powhatans lived and towards present day Richmond, Virginia. On route to the New World and on board the ship Captain Smith is accused of mutiny and imprisoned until they got to their destination. It’s not clear what exactly happened, but once arriving in the New World, Smith is allowed to head the
colony at Jamestown, named after King James. The story is moved along in between the hidden object and mini puzzle plays with characters speaking back and forth with you clicking to see the bubble with their conversations. This part is stiff and the dialogue not too interesting, but it conveys the message efficiently.
Once you get to the New World the scenes are located along the James River, but you keep returning to the same sites over again to look for more hidden objects. This may have been because it is a demo version and the other locations are locked. The scenes are 
interesting, especially the ones with the different species of birds represented accurately. They have red-bellied woodpeckers with colorful canaries, a white goose, a couple of raptors and 2 male Hairy woodpeckers. The noise and the movements from flying birds are a little distracting, but manageable. You will find many scenes with waving lanterns with flickering flames and flapping flags to divert your attention from your search, but that’s part of the fun of hidden object plays.
The mini puzzles I came across are the maze game where you must get Pocahontas out of a winding maze of hedges. It is a little 
clunky and not very challenging. I think it would have been better to show the entire maze, make it complicated and easier to manipulate her out of the puzzle. Another 
puzzle is to move the tiles to make the picture of an eagle. The third one is to move disks with pictures around to find the listed items. These puzzles help break up the hidden object play, but they are not very difficult. They may get more complex in higher levels.
Overall I found both the artwork and dialogue part of the story rather flat even though the tale of Pocahontas is a fascinating one. The short, simple 
conversation may be good for kids to learn the history of this area and time. I found that Nancy Reagan is a distant relative of Pocahontas. I don't think this is in the game, but it's a curious side item. Despite some of the shortcomings of this game, I like the hidden object/I spy plays with its interesting and colorful scenes.
Features of Pocahontas: Princess of Powhatan
-Explore the New World
-Hidden Object Plays
-Mini Games
-Story of Pocahontas
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Mystery Stories: Berlin Nights Review
Mystery Stories- Berlin Nights puts you in the middle of a giant case involving unlimited renewable energy, beautiful reporters, World War II technology and Nazi escapees. Unlike most Hidden Object games, Mystery Stories goes above and beyond the usual 
genre and makes it fun and interesting to solve the puzzles, including the mini games.
What makes this game great is the ingenuity of the puzzles. There is the classic I Spy game mode, but even in these puzzles, 
there is something new. In the early levels, the game makes you look for something and perform the task within the puzzle. For example, one level has banana peels hidden throughout and one of the tasks is to throw these peels out. You click and drag the bananas over to the trash can in order to complete that task.
I also came across a couple of Hidden Object puzzles that were a little different from usual games. One puzzle had clues that slowly came up on the side that led you to look for a certain object. For example, if the clue was a baguette, the clues might be something like Long, France, Baked, etc. The faster you get the clue, the more points you earn. Another puzzle that was really cool was the sound I Spy. Instead of getting the list of clues, you get a list of sounds that the clues make. This is not as hard as it sounds, as the sounds are generally pretty straightforward (i.e. Frog, Drum, Radio).
The best part about these puzzles was the lack of clutter. Usually, these type of games have screens that are covered with small 
intricate little objects that you have to spend twenty minutes looking for. Mystery Stories- Berlin Nights is much easier on the eyes and hides the clues cleverly, instead of in a sea of objects. This is definitely a plus, as my eyes were not straining like they usually are after a game like this.
This was probably one of the best Hidden Object games that I have ever played. Besides the new and fun gameplay, the story 
was pretty interesting as well. You are a female reporter from New York in Berlin when you stumble upon some friends who are looking for a machine from a former German scientist who had to leave the technology for renewable energy to flee from the Nazis. It is your mission to find the missing parts and discover the mystery of Berlin. The only problem I had was with the slow load times, but that might just be my computer. This game is definitely worth the five stars that it deserves.
Features of Mystery Stories: Berlin Nights:
- Search the city of Berlin for clues
- 94 levels of mystery
- 14 bonus minigames
- Adventure and Free Mode play
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Mystery Files & Reg: 13th Skull and Trade Collector’s Edition Review
This is the first game I played in the series so I am pleasantly surprised by the video movie at the beginning and throughout the play you speak to actors. It’s always nice to see something new and different in a Mac games. Not only does the video help you visualize the location and atmosphere of this game, but the bluesy music puts you directly in the bayou swamps.
You find yourself in Louisiana making your way to a dilapidated southern manor in the marshlands. Your goal is to speak to a Mrs. Lawson the wife of the man that went missing. Look for the exclamation marks above the heads of the characters to speak to them. Mrs. Lawson informs you that their family just moved into this house that her husband has inherited. The towns people have said the house is haunted by a pirate ghost and there’s a treasure hidden somewhere on the property. Her daughter said that a ghost took her father. Your job as an investigator is find him by click and pointing your cursor throughout the manor, and speaking to different characters like the housekeeper and the towns people. You play many puzzles to move from one location to another and get further in the game. Many of the scenes are locked so you must figure out how to get into them. Other places you can zoom in for more details and hidden object games. In addition the daughter will not come out of her room so you can’t speak to her or search it. You’ll be running errands and playing mini puzzles as well.
The hint button will take about 10 seconds to recharge and if you have too many misclicks, leaves will cover your scene. There are 20 crown insignias to win for accomplishments.
Mystery Files & Reg: 13th Skull & Trade Collector’s Edition contains a bonus gameplay, built in guide and concept art. The guide will help you in some of the more challenging 
areas. Most of the puzzles and tasks were manageable and when they get too challenging you can always rely on the hints. I think the video aspect of this game enhanced the atmosphere of the location and the hokey conversations you will have with the eccentric cast. This game is creative and keeps you involved in the case. I give it a 4 out of 5 for great artwork, solid plays, fantastic music and tasks.
Features of Mystery Files & Reg: 13th Skull & Trade Collector’s Edition:
-Video Movie
-Many Murky Hidden Object Games and Puzzles
-20 Crown Insignias
-Bonus Gameplay, Built in Guide, Concept Art
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