Posts Tagged mystery

Emily in Darkness Review

Emily in Darkness Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Emily in Darkness looks like a dark and disturbing adventure, but some bad translation ruins a lot of the mystique.

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Blue Toad Murder Files: A Touch Of Mystery Review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Classically British in appearance and humor, Blue Toad Murder Files is a highly enjoyable whodunnit mystery with plenty of puzzles to entertain gamers.

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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened HD Review

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened HD Review

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
It's rough around the edges but there's an intriguing if flawed adventure game within.

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Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion HD Review

Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion HD Review

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
One of the most enjoyable Hidden Object games in recent times. It has a great CSI style feel to it.

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Hidden object games are always popular with kids and adults alike. Sprill: The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is a hidden object and mini-game app with a ocean theme.

Players help Sprill, a fox-looking creature with that’s trying to save its planet by finding a pearl hidden somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. Sprill will stumble through shipwrecks in the ocean trying to find the pearl. Players try to find objects on various screens to progress through levels and find clues as to the whereabouts of the much-needed pearl.

The game includes mechanical puzzles, cute characters, and clever mini-games.

Sprill: The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is developed by Big Fish Games. Big Fish Games is a developer and publisher of casual games. They’re popular for offering a new game everyday on their website for Mac and PC gamers. Other popular iOS games from Big Fish including Gravely Silent: House of Deadlock and Sleepy Hollow: Mystery Legends.

$4.99
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Released: 2012-04-05 :: Category: Games

BeyondDead Review

BeyondDead Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Navigate a lush sci-fi horror environment filled with reanimated corpses and mysterious.

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Telltale Games has just released the latest episode in the seven episode season of Law & Order: Legacies.

Episode Four, entitled Nobody’s Child, focuses on an event from New Year’s Eve 1999. The battered body of a boy is discovered in an alley and the investigation that follows unearths a case of shocking abuse along with criminal indifference in high places.

As before, the player take the roles of both investigators and district attorneys alongside the likenesses of characters such as Lennie Briscoe, Rey Curtis, Olivia Benson and Jack McCoy.

Multiple endings are offered depending on moral decisions and the seven episodes will eventually piece together to form a season-wide mystery.

Unlike other Telltale Games titles, episodes are available by purchasing the first episode for $2.99 then paying $2.99 for future episodes or $12.99 to unlock the full season. No doubt a bargain for many fans of the iconic TV show.

Episode Four is out now.

$2.99
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2011-12-22 :: Category: Games

Nancy Drew: Shadow Ranch Review

Nancy Drew: Shadow Ranch Review

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Combining gaming with reading, kids get the perfect opportunity to catch up on Nancy Drew's adventures.

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Mystery Ball Review

Mystery Ball Review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
A handful of neat gameplay quirks separate this physics puzzle game from the rest of the pack.

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The Secret of Chateau de Moreau Review

The Secret of Chateau de Moreau Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
The Secret of Chateau de Moreau puts players in the shoes of suspect-turned-detective Antoine as he tries to discover the truth about his foster father's murder and clear his name. It's a very tight, well-made mystery title that should delight fans of the genre.

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Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds Review

Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Special Enquiry Detail might suffer a little due to the small screen, but it's an enjoyable romp of a hidden object game.

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Cause of Death Review

Cause of Death Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Interactive novels aren't the most exciting things for the ADD gaming generation, but Cause of Death is smart, quick, and fun.

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The Jim & Frank Mysteries: The Blood River Files Review

The Jim & Frank Mysteries: The Blood River Files Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
This pastiche of a game offers an enjoyable enough batch of puzzles. Unfortunately, they're wrapped in a forgettable and poorly animated storyline.

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If there’s one thing I love, it’s a good mystery. As an adult a child, I read every single Nancy Drew Hardy Boys book. Twice. Encyclopedia Brown and McGurk had nothing on me. Now, as the parent of an audacious 11-year old, my house is a swirling vortex of mystery and intrigue: Who ate these cookies? Who tracked mud all over the floor? Who spray-painted the hamster? I could go on, but I digress…

I also love iPhone games and, upon learning of 99Games Online’s upcoming mystery/puzzle game, The Jim and Frank Mysteries: The Blood River Files, I must admit: I can’t wait to get my hands on this game:

The Jim and Frank Mysteries: The Blood River Files centers around mysterious happenings in the town of Tinyville and leads its main characters, Jim and Frank, on an adventure-filled quest to uncover the mystery that is Blood River. In order to solve the mystery, players will be challenged to solve a series of challenging visual and analytical puzzles while advancing in the game.

The game features:

  • More than 20 hours of engaging game play spread across 4 chapters
  • 70 different kinds of puzzles and tasks
  • Entertaining mini-games
  • Over 90 beautiful hand-drawn scenes
  • 35 interesting characters
  • The Jim and Frank Mysteries: The Blood River Files appears to be a promising title in a relatively neglected genre. Look for it to hit the app store soon!

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    Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

    Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Sherlock Holmes combines some interesting ideas with lame mini-games & unpolished mechanics. It's a mixed bag that is intriguing at times, despite it's many rough spots.

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    Clue

    Clue

    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    It’s time to dust off your sleuthing gear, Mr. Boddy has once again met an untimely fate.

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    Myst

    Myst

    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    After over 15 years of being one of the coolest PC/Mac mystery-puzzle games, the original Myst comes to the iPhone - not a stripped down version of the game, but the full game!

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