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Paige Harper’s worst nightmare is about come true in the Hidden Object game Paige Harper and the Tome of Mystery! One night, while searching the Library for a rare book, Paige suddenly finds herself in a secret room with a handsome spirit trapped inside. Many years ago he stumbled across a mysterious book, which trapped him inside the Tome and now he needs Paige’s help to solve the book’s mystery in order to free all the trapped souls. Worried she will be stuck there forever, Paige doesn’t waste any time and immediately embarks on a quest to solve the mystery, only to realize that before she can do that, she must first help various characters in famous literary works – like Hamlet, Sherlock Holmes and Romeo & Juliet – solve their own problems!

Paige Harper and the Tome of Mystery offers a great twist on the standard gameplay in this genre. Whether you are in Capulet’s Garden or Treasure Island, the scenes are presented in a unique pop-up book format and within them you need to look for various objects, like Romeo’s love letters to Juliet or a misplaced football in Robin Hood’s camp.

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If you’re looking for juicy mystery combined with amazing visuals and a good storyline, the Hidden Object game Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White should do the trick! Based on the 1858 serial “The Woman in White”, one of the earliest mystery novels ever to be published, the game sticks close enough to the facts for those who have read and enjoyed the novel.

Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White begins as our hero’s train breaks down and he has to walk the rest of the way to Cumberland on a dark chilly night. Leaving difficult times behind in London, Walter Hartright is busy contemplating his new position as an Art Teacher at Limmeridge House when he suddenly runs into a mysterious woman dressed in white who seems to be hiding from something… or someone?

While initially he thinks nothing of it, the plot thickens when he arrives at Limmeridge House only to realize that one of his students – Laura Fairlie – bears an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white who, rumor has it, escaped from an asylum.

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What’s a girl to do if her grandpa dies and leaves her an antique store and a journal with many missing pages but with hints of the existence of a Jade Coin that brings good fortune? Anybody who’s ever watched Indiana Jones knows the answer to that: Traipse around the world looking for the missing journal pages and the lost treasure of course! And in the hidden object game Autumn’s Treasures: The Jade Coin our heroine does exactly that.

After finding the journal and realizing that the missing pages she desperately needs are stashed away in auctioned-off artifacts, Autumn begins her journey around the world, visiting places like Crazy Joe’s hut in the Everglades, the Mayan ruins in Guatemala and a Buddhist Temple in Sri Lanka, in pursuit of the buyers and their artifacts with the hope of finding the missing pages. The plot thickens however when our courageous heroine realizes that Gramps may have been involved in criminal activity… only to find out later on that he was coerced into helping a crime family syndicate!

Adding a twist to the usual straightforward hidden object scenes, Autumn’s Treasures: The Jade Coin requires our heroine to continuously look for various pieces, which together create a tool that helps her move forward in the game, whether this is a key to open the safe, a chainsaw to unlock a shed or even find a light bulb to turn on the light.

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Game Review: Fiction Fixers – Adventures in Wonderland

If you like mystery and adventure combined with a bit of old school fairytales, then this hidden object game is the game for you!

In Fiction Fixers – Adventures in Wonderland you start out as a young cadet, who’s just joined the Fiction Fixers, a group dedicated to protecting classic literature.

Sadly, last night The Illiterati – an infamous organization dedicated to the destruction of all fiction – broke into the Hall of Fiction and stole many valuable books! Their first target is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and an agent has already transported himself into the book and started altering the storyline, which eventually may lead to the book being completely wiped out.

As a Fiction Fixer, it’s your duty to protect this work of art and restore what the Illiterati has damaged. The question is: are you ready for your first assignment?

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I love casual PC games (surprise surprise) so I often find myself using gaming lingo in my day to day banter, even when conversing with friends and family who most likely don’t understand the references at all and probably just think that I “talk funny”.

Nevertheless, if you’re reading this blog post then I’m guessing that it’s with a sympathetic gamer’s eye, and that if I say that sometimes, come Saturday or Sunday, I seem to encounter “The Mysterious Case of Michelle Casey’s Vanishing Weekend”, you  know I’m not talking about the latest Hidden Object release, but about my actual weekend.

Some weeks are such a drag. You’re so busy with work, obliging a neighbor, colleague or friend with precious chunks of your time listening to whatever it is they need you to listen to, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, doing the family thing, calling tradesmen, phone companies and other pesky people whom you occasionally rely on to fix this and that, etc.

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