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by Gutherchacha

This is billed as a mystery game, and it kind of is, but 80% of the time that I spent playing it you are actually just “finding objects” in a messy room, like ispy. There are occasionally puzzles too, it’s not primarily an action/conversation based interactive game, which it seems like it is from the ads etc. It has little snippets of that in between these other things. For example, in the morning my character woke up, and then had to search for fifteen items before finding her hat, and I couldn’t leave the room without it. Then someone gets murdered and first you have to go to the kitchen and find a knife (again you’re really finding 10-15 items each time you look for something so unless you use the hints it takes forever, and then they limit your hints if you ask for too many) then you go back and they say, go back and find a magnifying glass, then you do that, then go backAnd find some baking soda, three items that could have been found at once, or even just find the one item instead of fifteen!…no interaction with characters, all just finding these objects which you don’t even need, all you actually need is the one object. Not for someone who wants to actually interact with a story. Also, the complaints about energy usage stand. I would way rather just watch an ad, or even just pay for a game, but you can’t do that, you pay over and over in little bits, or you wait 24 hours and then your energy gets used up almost immediately. Very stupid design.

by Powellonia

So if I were to pay $5-10 to purchase this game outright, I would purchase it and give it 5 stars. Beautiful graphics, good puzzles, and all that. The game is not the problem. Every review that mentions the problems with having to sink lots of money in this game to buy energy is correct. Every review that mentions the drain on energy to accomplish tasks is correct. Essentially, you are “paying” credits for every single move forward in this game, so you can only accomplish maybe an hour of game play if your energy is fully charged, which takes about a full day. And if you wish to keep playing, you can spend anywhere from $3-$20 (or more) to gain extra energy credits, but you will burn through that extremely quickly. You can buy higher end apps for less than what it costs to get enough continuous playtime for this game to be with it.

So far the response from the developer is a generic “Thanks for the feedback; we are working to improve it in the future” but I don’t think they have any intention of changing this aspect of the game. I respect people’s right to make money off their work and It doesn’t need to be free to play, but honestly, having to wait over 24 hours to refill my energy so I can play a bit is enough to make me lose interest and quit and delete the app. It’s a shame, because it would be a fun game otherwise and I’d buy the app.

by I Love Gonduras!

This game COULD be so much fun. It has a very unique concept and is incredibly detailed (especially for a free game). But just like every other review, the energy is such a problem. You don’t even have time to enjoy yourself because you get to play for 5 minutes, tap the screen a few times times and you’re out of energy. The energy bar only has the capability to hold 200 energy. When you’re doing a finding game, it takes 5 energy to find the object and there are 12 things to be found. This one game uses more than 25% of your energy when in reality you only need ONE of those objects to move on. I’m currently on a task where I’ve had to do 3 things (literally tap the screen 3 times) and it’s taken over 25% of my energy and I can’t complete it because surprise, I “don’t have enough energy to complete the task”. And the only way to get more is to spend money and I’m not about to that. It would be a waste of money due to how quickly it would run out. If you want to get your energy bar refilled for free, you’re waiting over 24 hours. Over 24 hours of wait time for 5 minutes of game play! Anyway, I’ll continue to play (for now) because it’s still very new to me and I’m still intrigued. But I know that pretty soon I’ll get sick of waiting so long to continue the game and just end up forgetting I even have this installed on my phone. Missed opportunity by the developers. Could have had something great here!