Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures Review

Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures is an infuriating kind of hidden object game. It drip feeds what you can do, often allowing you a few minutes of gameplay before expecting you to wait it out for an energy bar to recharge. If you’re a fan of the genre you might come back a couple of times after this, but soon enough you’ll forget all about it.

Working your way through different exhibits within the museum, each section is bite-sized. Tasked with a list of items to find, it rarely takes more than 20-30 seconds to find everything. Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures isn’t a taxing game by any means. Searching an exhibit takes up energy, and your energy bar only allows for so many attempts before you have to wait for it to recharge. That’s one of the reasons why Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures is full of stop/start action.

The other is waiting for exhibits to finish upgrading or seeking out keys to unlock new areas. The latter involves opening crates, which require crowbars, which are gained through searching exhibits. See a pattern here? Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures is full of currencies that can all be purchased with real money, or you can be incredibly patient instead.

The problem here is that being patient doesn’t give you anything very exciting. It just gives you more exhibits and simple lists to seek out. Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures is never taxing, just time consuming. There’s an exceptionally loose story in there, full of characters from the films, but they only vaguely look like the relevant people.

If it wasn’t for the license, Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures would be immediately forgettable. Even with that license it’s still pretty forgettable, and a poor lesson in what a good hidden object game is.