When I first downloaded this game on my iPad, over a year ago, I was excited because it was similar to one I really enjoyed on my Switch, but every time I tried to play it, I couldn’t. The game would prompt me to download content and then there was the spinning circle forever. I tried several times to just leave it alone for hours to keep trying to download, with no success. I recently got frustrated with the games I’d been playing and decided to try this one again. Either our internet is better, or the game has been updated, or both, but it works great now.There is such a wide variety of cases, and within each case, there is a wide variety of challenges. Some of them are easy, some challenging, and some confusing, which is a great mix. You get plenty of hints to help you out when you get stuck, and can watch ads to get additional hints if/when you need them. Energy regenerates slowly, which is my only complaint, though watching ads will give you more energy, and allow you to use less energy for an hour. Currently, I’m using running out of energy as a prompt to get off my tablet, lol, but there are options to use gems, which you can earn at a reasonable rate.I haven’t yet felt a need to purchase gems for extra energy or hints, but I haven’t ruled it out. I do want to support the developers because it’s such a well designed game, so I don’t mind clicking on the ads.

This is probably my favorite app on the whole AppStore right now! I really appreciate the thought, detail, and quality that went into this, including the music. Even the visuals get more detailed as you go along into the more recent stories. I started out playing Enigmatis: Mists of Ravenwood and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I continued onto the next one, Shadow of Karkhala. Apparently though, these are only the second and third stories in the series, the first one is only available on Steam. So obviously it would make more sense to play that beforehand, but for me, I was still able to enjoy it, it’s just that I could tell I was missing some context and background and such. Although, according to some reviews left by fans (without spoiling) the twist in the second book is easily predicted if you’ve played the first game already, so there is that. From my perspective, the twist wasn’t as predictable, but I still sort of expected it so it’s not like playing the first game beforehand would be ruining some masterful and unforeseen outcome. Anyway, since I loved the Enigmatis series so much, I thought I would lend my suggestion to make different stories but with the same main character that we see in it because I did get kind of attached, ahah I just figured it would be cool to see her solve more cases in the future! And see more of Rick and maybe Fang as well.

It’s a great game plenty of mystery’s and challenges that aren’t impossible to figure out but they’re hard enough to take some time with. Along with that, you get free hints after a certain amount of time if you get completely stuck on a part. The part I have an issue with is the energy. Every action you make consumes 5 energy everything from opening doors, picking up items, using said items, etc. everything requires energy so you get around 5-15 minutes of play time before you’re out of energy and have to either watch ads for more, pay for more, or just flat out wait. Overall you get little play time before you have to wait several hours for your energy to be full to actually play a little bit. You could add a small fee to pay to have infinite amount of energy which in my opinion would be worth it since other then the energy is a great game. You could also just add mini games to earn energy or even just reduce the time it takes to get energy and possibly reduce the amount of energy it takes to do every action from five to one or even two that way you still have plenty of time to play but you don’t have an overflowing amount of it to the point that you can just finish the whole mystery in 1 sitting. But as stated before it’s a great game the experience is fun it has an interesting story along with giving you plot details as you go through it, the energy is the only complaint I have for the whole game.

I like the game but it frustrates me. I always need more energy to do the simplest of tasks. I started with The Mist of Ravenwood. The hints aren’t very helpful most of the time and I’ve wasted them accidentally hitting the button while trying to find hidden objects in the picture. I’m not able to find everything needed to access certain areas, like the raven cavity to get the batteries for Becky’s camera, the shop in the logging camp or the footlocker next to the ticket seller. All my tools were lost when the gondola fell into the ocean. Is that supposed to happen? I retrieved 3 of the locks to free the prisoner but made the mistake of placing each as I found it after getting the first piece to open the trapdoor. When I was unable to get across the river, I restarted the game. My 9 year-old grandson enjoys helping me with it. I hope we can get through it to the end. I’d like to try more of the mysteries.I wrote the previous paragraph when I was first starting the game and getting very frustrated. The energy for tasks is still a problem but I’m getting farther along and better at the game. I was able to figure out what I needed and go back for it. I’ve since raised my rating from 3 stars to 5. I’m looking forward to other mysteries when this one is solved.