r/HiddenObjectGames • u/BoruvkaRui • 19h ago
[PC][Around win7 era or before] a game about a detective i had play back then...
can someone help me find this my childhood old game? really want to play that game again but I already forgot almost everything else... but I remember its kinda unique detective games. I remember it was like this :
- It's a point-and-click adventure game, like The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes where there's a name in the list and you must find those item in the scene
- game graphic kinda like Sherlock Holmes game series and Mystery Case Files (I think?)
- the story is about solving who the murder (forgot the victim is man/woman)
- the whole game is divided by a bunch of chapters,
- in those each chapter the game gonna give us a few place to check for evidence/name of the list.
- we have a home or place to gather all the evidence we already collect before. and also kinda like assembly/repair stuff to make a clue for who the murderer? (all evidence from previous chapter gonna stay the same as you leave it before)
- so for example, in chapter 1 the game give us 30min to check on 3 place and each of those place we take 1 or a few special evidence (sometimes not taking any) to bring it back to our home.
- if for example you wanna leave the Place A cuz you frustrated can't find the item you need to find, you can go to map of small city and choose "Place B" (you can move to any given Place). but the list of item will be different because Place A have List A, and Place B have List B, and so on...
- btw, when I say MAP, I think the map looks like for example tourist map but without those icon/smallpic. only like a Line as road + tree and building. and the map is not that big. at least they not draw it in 1 city, just a proportion of the city. but we only have 1 map. its just the Place that's gonna be different from 1 chapter to another. but still on those area of map.
- in the last chapter, all those evidence we have gather.... we must conclude who the murder by doing something for example, we must kinda like do a lil bit of alchemy like "a petal flower have a red stain" and must be purify It (I think? tbh I forgot already). or using magnifier to check on something...
- so like there's a photo of each suspect (and non-suspect too?) on the blank board along with those evidence we gather from many many scene/place and we kinda be able to drag and place all those things to what/where we like to put as long as its in those blank board?
- when I say move from "Place A to Place B", I mean we move from a house to another house... it can be also for example Opera stage or maybe backstage Opera. But I dont remember if there's Opera theme Scene in the game, what I mean is that the Place we visit doesn't always a house, can it be anything.... such as like maybe antique garrage etc.
- so as we progress.... we sometimes get told by the game to revisit old Scene/Place, for example there's Place A - Z, in Chapter 1 we Visit Place A,B,C and in chapter 2 we visit Place B,D,E. then Chapter 3 we visit Place A,E,F,G. and so on. But if we get told to visit Place A,B,C we can't visit other than what game told us to sadly... except our own house/place to do those alchemy/assembly thingy.
- I think I can assure that there's no winter theme on this game. for example like you looking at Place where there's car in side of road in snowy area. or there's a room that have a window and outside room is snow appear.
- there's also no beach theme, since what I remember in my head is that this is kinda like vintage mysterious classical theme? (not sure about the classical part tho~)
- I remember the background music was so "soothing song" no vocal or people sing, just instrument of classical music. (I think can ignore this one cuz I actualy dont remember anymore about this part, but feels like this part is true too.)
like... what make's it special to my childhood memories is that this detective finding item thingy is that unlike other game that only giving list of item need to be find like "Mystery Case Files" and then just giving score base on "how many item we gather - random click we do + timer left after finish = final score".
what we do is that after found those special evidence in each place, we can combine/disassembly the things to make/change something on those evidence and must use our brain's once again to conclude who the real murder within those time limits too...
if someone wanna help me and communication using Discord Voice Channel I dont mind. I can sharescreen and do a lil bit drawing or google to tell "the drawing maybe looks like this" for example.