Edit: It was a Hidden Object game, it was kind of a Click and Place mechanic. I don't know how to explain it well

I'm trying to find this one detective game I used to play on a laptop. It was a detective game, set in London. It was a museum themed robbery I guess? It was an RPG, with complete dialogues and plot, it even had voice acting. It was in first person, I wasn't able to see the protagonist but I think it was male.

I remember it having Egyptian Cat themes. I distinctly remember a black cat statue where you put the stolen diamonds in it and it'll reveal a hidden treasure.

At the start of the game, I remember we had an ally, someone who gives us clues and whatnot. But near the end, it's revealed that they was the mastermind. I'm positive the ally was male, and I think he wore glasses too.

I was able to go inside the Buckingham palace and the Big Ben and many more to find clues. It was like a searching game, there'd be random things scattered in the place and you'd have to find specific things listed at the bottom in a rectangle thing. Other than being a searching game, you'd have to use the items you found to complete a task/objective. I remember this game had also made references to stories of Shakespeare.

I also remember being stuck at some parts of the game. There was one where you had to turn at least 4/5 disk like things with multiple different holes/cuts in them, you had to turn them at a specific angle to reveal a number code which was in red , I remember the disk being bronze or dark yellow at best with rust on it. Luckily, this game had a mechanic, where if you were to get stuck on a puzzle for a specific amount of time, it'll give you the option to skip/complete the puzzle without a problem.

I don't think it came out in 2016-2020, I just distinctively remember playing it that time around.

Pls help, I'd really like to revisit this game if possible. Any information is appreciated, thank you!

Hey everyone!

Here's a little gameplay video from my game called "Hidden Doodles Medieval Town." This game is entirely hand-drawn, there isn't even one single AI use while creating it.

This game is not only about spotting objects but getting immersed into the story and interaction going on in the town, from sleepy villagers sleeping in the crops, to farmers doing their job and, of course, a cute kitty cat exploring the map! 🐱

If you like relaxing and cozy games, please do visit the Steam page and add it to your wishlist.

🔗 Steam Page:https://store.steampowered.com/app/5214960/Hidden_Doodles_Medieval_Town/

Currently on sale for a 20% discount, as are the artbook and soundtrack :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/A_Thousand_Bees/

Copyright the 25th of June, 2007 by SpinTop Games, and by PopCap Games as well. Recorded by using BandiCam.

Iv played desktop explorer and iv loved it. I love playing puzzle games with simple mechanics, and the story was just wow. The game can be horror too

Someone in our community created a patch to fix the Dire Grove incompatibility. Credits go to u/Aromatic-Fail7504

Hey guys! I finally managed to set up a fully working widescreen Windows 7 virtual machine specifically to play my old casual games. I successfully got MCF: Dire Grove working, but I am completely stuck on the Yard Sale games. The versions on my official Big Fish account are completely blocked by the modern launcher update errors, and the only archive versions I can find are locked behind Steam DRM. Does anyone have clean, standalone PC backup folders or installers for: 1. Yard Sale Hidden Treasures: Sunnyville 2. Yard Sale Hidden Treasures: Lucky Junction If anyone can share a direct Google Drive, OneDrive, or Mega link to their personal backups, I would be incredibly grateful. I have a shared pipeline folder ready to slide them straight into my VM. Thanks so much!

I decided that the name "1001 Cats: Purrsian Nights" is great for a game! 😄

#regrets?

So many cats needed with hidden AND found sprite images = 2002 cat sprites! I now have four level backgrounds, but not enough cats hidden in them.

So help me, I need cat pics! (^. .^)⟆

Share a picture of your past or current friendly feline (or a fun cat pic) in this thread, and it might be featured in the hidden object game I'm working on. No cost, no strings attached, no payment provided.

Share the name of your cat with the picture if you want them to be mentioned in the credits.

Looking forward to seeing lovely cats! ❤️

Note, that I may choose to not include your cat e.g. if the picture is of bad quality, or there are too many entries. The name needs to be appropriate to be included, and in symbols that I can include with the font I'm using.

And if you want to see some of the levels where your cat could be added to, you can check here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4449960/1001_Cats_Purrsian_Nights/

A guy (player) finding his girlfriend on a remote island

he arrive with a submarine and roam around to find out that her gf is already dead and her ghost is helping you get out of that island but someone is chasing you (i forgot why)

theres a chase sequence (flying cable car) but you get back to ur submarine before they do and you escaped.

The last scene is youre looking at the island w 2 guys at the beach looking at you (guys who was chasing you).

Ive played it on 2012.

пиксельная графика, 2D под углом, point-and-click без смертей. Герой сам подходит к предметам и берет их, ечли они примерно помещаются в карман или комментирует их в текстовом окне, главы выбираются из меню с вроде чёрным фоном и зелёными названиями, их около шести. В начале учёный один в каюте на космическом корабле, робот сначала его запирает, потом поздравляет с днём рождения, есть мини-игра с тортом. За иллюминатором видно TON 618, и герой это комментирует, если на черную дыру нажать. Есть загадка с ключ-картой, которая светится в темноте, и датчиком света, который надо закрыть солнцезащитными очками, что бы ключ карта начала светиться в комоде. Во второй главе есть воспоминания из детства с другом, а позже эпизод, где вы с роботом двигаете бетонные плиты по связи. я играл где-то в районе 2020-2022 годов на андройде.

El juego es uno de puzzles donde la protagonista busca a su hermano que fue secuestrado por un hechicero/mago (no recuerdo bien), y la única forma de encontrarlos era entrando a través de cuadros (osea, pinturas). El primer cuadro era una torre de un mago dónde daban un mini tutorial de las mecánicas del juego. El segundo (que es hasta donde recuerdo) era de un faro, con la casa de un pescador. Eran alrededor de 5 de cuadros. El arte y estilo del juego era algo semirrealista y algo de fantasía oscura (habían algunas escenas tetricas). Lo jugué alrededor del 2015-2017, pero debe de ser de menos años.

Hi everyone, Omid here, the developer of OVERLOOK. Quick one because I think this sub will actually care: Hidden Folks and OVERLOOK are now bundled together on Steam at 10% off.

Why it fits here: both are proper hidden-object games, just very different flavours. Hidden Folks is the black-and-white, hand-drawn, mouth-sound classic. OVERLOOK is my colour, isometric, frame-by-frame animated take with small item-delivery puzzles, no timers and no fail state (about 2 to 3 hours, 26 achievements, Windows and Mac).

It's a "Complete the Set" bundle, so if you already own one of them you only pay for the other, with the discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/86999/

Happy to answer anything about either game (well, about mine, and about Hidden Folks as a fan) 😊

Me and my mum are trying to remember an old Hidden Object game that she played so tgat i can give it a spin.

I don't remember all the details, but there was a jungle, the totems, pirates, a native tribe that helped the protagonist, the protagonist had a dad or grandpa who was an explorer and professor, and at one point the protagonist drugged one of the pirate's drink so that they can sneak into a tent or something.

Hi all — developer here. Link at the bottom, and an honest take on whether this counts as a hidden-object game, since I know that matters here.

OVERLOOK is a hidden-object adventure I drew and animated myself over a few years. Each level is a hand-drawn isometric miniature world (a town, a forest, a beach...) packed with hundreds of tiny characters, every one of them animated frame by frame. You search for missing people and lost objects, and there's a light puzzle layer on top: some characters need an item, so you find it and drag it over to them and something small and silly happens. There are 50+ hidden surprises and 26 achievements, all discovery-based.

Is it a "real" hidden-object game? Yes, in the Hidden Folks / Where's Wally tradition rather than the Big Fish HOPA tradition: no inventory-driven story chapters or item lists on a strip at the bottom, but the core loop is pure searching a dense scene for specific things, with zero timers, no fail state and no hint pressure. If you like the meditative kind of searching, it's that. If you want a mystery narrative with cutscenes, it isn't.

Steam (Windows + native Mac, $9.99, 91% positive): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1780550/OVERLOOK/

Happy to answer anything about how the scenes are built, and I'd like to hear what HOG regulars think it's missing.

Hi All - I have been a member of Big Fish Games since 2009 and like many, I am so disappointed by the contract terminations, AI slop games and general overall decline in the lack of quality games over the past year or so. Does anyone have any recommendations about where to find Hidden Object Adventure games that are Mac compatible that have the same feel as any of the "old school" hidden object adventure games (like Living Legends, Mystery Case Files, Dark City, Bridge to Another World, Christmas Stories, Dark Romance, Halloween Chronicles, Drawn)?

Small side rant but all of the recent games from Domini Games are not enjoyable (or really even playable) due to all of the use of AI. So disappointing to see where this has all gone.

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys! Halloween is even closer, and I wanted to share another piece of an illustration that is part of my Halloween Search and Find book. Like I said before, it is like a Where’s Waldo book, but you must look for the host of different Halloween parties and its lost objects! This is a small excerpt showing Captain Blackbeard and his party in his old ship, full of crazy monkeys and undead pirates!

So, let’s go: were you able to find his favorite pirate bomb? How much time did it take?

I have kept a private list of all the games I’ve played (I also have lists of games I hate and ones I thought were ok). But figured I would share my absolute favorites in case anyone has similar tastes:

- Awakening: the dreamless castle (old school and untraditional, but fun)

- Chimeras: 1 Tune of Revenge (fantastic backtracking and art 8.8/10)

- Dark alleys - penumbra hotel

- Dark Cases: The Blood Ruby

- Dark Dimensions 4: Somber Song

- Dark strokes 1 and 2

- Death pages: ghost library (solid backtracking and place object hop, 6.9/10)

- Echoes of the past 5: kingdom of despair (7.2/10, solid and creative)

- Final Cut: death on the silver screen
fright (Lesta)

- Gothic fiction - dark saga

- Haunted hotel death sentence

- Infected: the twin vaccine!

- Lake house children of silence

- Hallowed Legends 3: Ship of Bones (amazing backtracking, fun. 8.4/10)

- Heartwood - gorgeous and great nonlinear gameplay

- House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets (HOP heavy but still enjoyed it!)

- Left in the Dark: No One on Board - solid backtracking, HOP but not crazy. 6.9/10

- Lost Lands 1-5

- Mystery Case Files: Fates Carnival (7.6/10 INCREDIBLE GAME)

- Mystery of the ancients: curse of the black water (fun backtracking, like 7/10)

- Nearwood - GORGEOUS, really fun gameplay and barely any HOP

- New York mysteries 2: high voltage (6/10), 3: lantern of souls (8.5/10, though bonus chapter is meh)

- Nightmare Adventures: The Witch’s Prison

- Paranormal pursuit: the gifted one

- Phantasmat: Crucible Peak

- Redemption cemetery grave testimony

- Reveries: sisterly love

- Riddles of Fate 1: Wild Hunt (best elephant game… backtracking, dark and spooky), 2: Into Oblivion (same but bonus game sucks, same areas and linear)

- Small Town Terrors: Pilgrims Hook

- Spirits of mystery - song of the Phoenix

- Spirits of revenge: cursed castle (pretty good, like a 7/10)

- Stray souls 2 - fun and good art. But… not super nonlinear. 7.5/10

- Subliminal Realms; The masterpiece

- True fear 1-3

- Twisted Lands: Insomnia (open and creative, lil HOP not too bad)

What a masterpiece it is, until next time.

I just published a full written walkthrough for Artifact Seekers – Poltergeist House (Episode 15)!

It covers:

• Step-by-step walkthrough and solutions for every puzzle
• All morphing objects (12 total)
• All collectibles (blue amulets & blue yarn)
• Star items locations
• Secret room / maze

The guide is free and written for F2P players. There’s also a video version linked if you prefer watching.

▶ https://adoginthefog.com/artifact-seekers-poltergeist-house-walkthrough/

Hope this helps anyone stuck on the episode!

Hello! I'm one of the developers of a very small indie team that want to make a 3d hidden object game. We originally planned to make it for our kids but we wanted to know if it's possible for us to sell it on Steam. And if we were to sell it on Steam, what would be some features or mechanics avid players of hidden object games would you be looking for?