Unsolved: Hidden Mystery Games 12+

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.

Developer Response ,

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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.

I love this game but….

EDIT: it’s nice to see that the developers are doing something about the main complaint of the energy mechanics. I am looking forward to seeing all the new changes with the gems. Thank you for listening to us. :)

With most of the reviews being about how poor the energy system is in the game; you’d think they’d try and do something or announce some kind of fix. Like I’d gladly pay to fully unlock the game or pay a subscription for unlimited energy. I want to play the game. But I can play for five minutes at a time it gets annoying. I love this game but I think the energy deal is quite annoying. I wanna sit and play the game not do five things then have to wait for my energy to come back up. You need energy to pick up an item to use an item to open a door it’s on the ridiculous side honestly. I truly love this game - the look the puzzles and the story is even pretty good; but the energy needs an overall. Like I played for 5 min and now I can’t do anything. It’s kinda killing my attention for the game. You can still get money for your game if you do other types of micro transactions - maybe story lines or cosmetics for our evidence bags and items. Keeping the energy would be fine if the devs would be willing to wayyyyyyy lower the energy costs. Like is said love the game - but the energy thing needs to be fixed.

Developer Response ,

Hello 👋, thank you for such a detailed review and feedback. We are constantly looking into balancing Unsolved in order to meet our players’ needs and making the gaming experience even better. We are aware of the problems with the energy, so thank you for the ideas on how we can improve the balance! With future updates we want to add more content and new features, and to include better and cheaper Store offers, so stay tuned for future updates 😊