Unsolved: Hidden Mystery Games 12+

Fun game but……

Only get like 40 minutes of game play unless you want fork out some cash they for the past several months have been having issues with the ads it may let you watch the whole ad but then it either goes to black screen or it just doesn’t count the ad so you don’t get the energy/hints/ 20% off energy expenditure so you have to watch another one then it works it almost seems like a scheme to double up on ads I prefer not to see it that way but since they have no gifting system they have no way to compensate you so it feels like going to the store to purchase a candy bar but they keep your cash and don’t give you the candy bar! The stories are great I really like this app regardless how I feel about it not having a gifting system when things go wrong but I’m assured that they are actively working on it. I suggest if the system is several months away to get rid of the ads if they can’t get it to work right and speed up the energy replenishment and hint replenishment clock to match what we could have gotten by watching the ads that way the players are not getting ripped off by the ad system. Because as of right now the players are the ones losing out whilst the company is still getting paid since the ads were watched to completion. It’s just not right. I gave the app 5 stars because it is fun it’s not one of those other hidden object games that got taken over by match three everywhere like manor matters or mystery manor now that game is one star!

Fun but frustrating

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.

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Great game but few tweaks I would make

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.