Разработчик: Gogii Games
Описание
their history, fear was in their daily lives. They thought that chapter was over with. But has it
returned?
Features:
• Investigate a string of murders.
• Solve puzzles crafted to stop you.
• Meet townsfolk and hear their stories.
• Search for relevant clues and use them to catch a killer.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP
- Processor: 1.8 Ghz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated Audio or better
Отзывы пользователей
It's mostly one HOG after another
Dark Lore Mysteries: The Hunt For Truth is an older game from 2014. It's a venerable 10 years old at the time of this review.
It's a Hidden Object puzzle game, the type you normally see on mobile app stores or even as browser apps. There's literally hundreds of these on Steam, mostly published by Artifex Mundi, many of them free on mobile app stores, but this one will cost you money on Steam. There's a old timey horror/magic theme to the game, but this is a just a veneer over a tired and overdone set of hidden object minigames and Adobe Flash tier puzzles, wrapped together with a bunch of static screens that you "move" through by tapping your finger on your iPhone screen.
While these kinds of games are popular amongst casual gamers, it's difficult to argue this is a great value proposition as a PC game, especially considering the price of this compared to the hundreds of free HOGs on the mobile app stores.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/flash games. While the artwork itself, while mediocre, might be considered passable, the visual presentation here is negligible, it might as well be a slideshow or a Youtube video. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids had more advanced animation and visuals going on than this game does.
The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.
This is a really old game, and if they had made it today, it would be on the mobile app stores, but it predates those. It's not clear why they didn't try to dump this on the app stores (since it clearly seems to be here as some kind of nostalgia gouge). Maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).
Regardless, for all intents and purposes Dark Lore Mysteries: The Hunt For Truth might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 8 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Dark Lore Mysteries: The Hunt For Truth has the pathetically optimistic price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
You can play literally hundreds of hidden object puzzle games like this for free on mobile app stores. There's no reason anyone would want to pay money for the same experience on Steam you can get for free elsewhere.
Not a bad HOPA game. Lot of HOP scenes. Game is incredibly short. Really only worth it if it's on sale. Also, only recommend to fans of the genre who use it as a time filler.
Simple but atmospheric
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Gogii Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (52) |