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This hidden objects adventure is based on a TV show with the same title, this is why you might think the characters look off (They are based on the actors of the show). I don't know the show, never watched it, but I enjoyed this game. The story starts off about you joining the PRS team as a new member and immediately dive into the new case at Poison Springs Park where a supernatural activity occurred. They also found out that in 1864 this Park was actually a civil war site and many people died in that area. With this piece of knowledge in mind, the team ventured to the location.
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The game has so many good things, especially the artwork, I loved each and every location in this game, same goes to the hidden object scenes, they were well drawn. The journal is the best thing ever, you have a section for the characters' thoughts and the story so far, a section for the objectives, another one for the map which sadly is not an interactive one. There is also a section for the achievements to keep track of it, and the last one is a strategy guide in case you got stuck anywhere and doesn't want to skip a puzzle.
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Some drawbacks of the game are the character's animations, they don't even open their mouth when the speaks. The voice-overs are weak, all of them. The story wasn't the best, but it is not bad either. I enjoyed my playthrough even with these flaws.
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Pros:
+Beautiful visuals and locations design.
+OK music.
+Well drawn hidden objects scenes.
+Variety of puzzles.
+Collectibles.
+Steam achievements.

Cons
-No fast traveling map.
-Weak voice overs.
-Average story.

The bonus chapter was a good addition to conclude the story, they also added new extra locations. For a game that's been released in 2013 this is a very well done one. I recommend it to HOGs lovers.

𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝘩𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝘩𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒

Well it is not bad, in that I completed it and didn't feel ripped off, there weren't any technical issues. However there are many other similar and better games on Steam that I wouldn't recommend this one unless you are starting to exhaust Steam's catalogue of hidden object games.

It is not scary, there are a couple of jump scares but they don't really affect the scariness of the game. However I did feel uncomfortable playing this game for the following reasons.

The art work in general is very good. However the character animation during dialogue is really uncanny as it is just large blinking eyes and in the group scene at the beginning strange head tilts.

The characters motivation is a bit off, you play as the newest member of the paranormal investigation group, but you are given all of the equipment during the game and sent off to do almost all of the work, so you end up wanting to tell the other members of the team to get up of their backsides and do something. I would understand if you were split from the group or there was some story dynamic to make you do it, but there isn’t. An early example is that you have to answer the phone in the back of the car on the way there, even though you are in the front passenger seat and there are four people in the back who are nearer the phone, and are more likely to know the person on the other end. Assembling an electrical item with the technical expert next to you, because he cannot be bothered? It gets worse.

Hidden Object Scenes, not too difficult to implement you would think, but these are the most annoying I have ever played. Using synonyms is ok, half hiding objects are ok, but most of the scenes have objects which require multiple actions to find. Which is fine but there are a lot of them. I should mention that the hidden objects appear to be the same in subsequent play throughs. Normally I would expect a scene to have 12-15 hidden objects selected out of database of a greater number of possible objects, sometimes they always include a particular object needed to advance the plot, but there is usually some variation, in this game there isn't any. This is made worse because even when you know two objects work together clicking on one with the other is difficult due to the detection of the game engine, if often doesn’t detect the click unless you click a certain part of the object but this seems to vary, and not in a predictable or intelligent way.

The first hidden object scene contains 4 objects out of 12 which require multiple actions; the highest appears to be 6 out of 12. Some of the solutions are nonsensical. It is almost as bad as the famous puzzle in one of the Gabriel Knight games that requires you to place tape over a hole in a fence to chase a cat through, such that hair is stuck to the tape, which you then use to make a fake moustache to disguise yourself as a character that doesn’t have a moustache.

This followed through into the other puzzles, melt that substance with a melting point over 1000 degrees C on a campfire ok. Go to great lengths to get a source of light, even though there is an electric work light only feet away etc.

Gameplay aside I felt uncomfortable playing the game for three main reasons.

1) The game requires you to vandalise and steal items during you investigation at times when there is no urgency. If the game required me to steal a first aid kit to help someone who was dying, I would say fair enough, or break a car window to retrieve a phone to call for the police, well they can just bill me for the window.

However the game requires me to steal and cause damage at times in the game when as far as the group is concerned, no one is in immediate danger, or the only reason to break the law is for the benefit of our investigation. Randomly destroy and damage Native American artefacts for no reason because later on you will just happen to need them, take whatever you want even though the owners are not far away, because well who cares.

2) Health and safety, running into a burning building to rescue someone, dangerous but necessary. But don't worry; you won’t be doing anything like that.

Instead:

Instead thrill in the danger of lighting candles so you can see to fill a gas tank, because someone cannot be bothered to go back to the car and get a torch.

Damage a building water supply and leave it leaking in a room with the electricity switch on, to clean a mirror to see something in the reflection which you would see by just turning around.

3) Native Americans, I don't know much about Native American culture, however it is featured and plays a prominent part of the game. But it all seems very stereotypical, dream catchers - check, Indians wearing fringed buckskin - check, big head dresses - check, totem poles - check. Everything from old cowboy films before laws were brought in to stop white people in makeup playing Native Americans - check. I doubt that all of the Native American symbolism used is genuine, and even with the genuine items, I doubt that any one nation included all of these elements. It would have been less of a problem in a more fantastic setting, but the associated TV show is delivered as a documentary, and the game is set in a real world setting. It made me cringe and I am a white Englishman, so I expect it would really upset actual Native Americans. I just felt that it was all a bit racist, and apart from holding my hand up and saying "How", it couldn't have gotten anymore unpleasant.

So I would in closing say, the game is not terrible, but almost all of the hidden object games on Steam are better. It is really only for fans of the TV show. Go play something by Artifex Mundi (Developed not just distributed by.) and you will have a better experience for a bit less money.

Storyline: A paranormal investigative team led by Ryan Buell is called to Poison Springs state park due to "hauntings" after an archeologist uncovers some civil war relics. Fictional Poison Springs was the scene of a civil war battle where the union soldiers were to sent to stop a supply shipment to the conferate army. During the course of the investigation, the ghosts of a conferate civil war soldier and a Cherokee girl help guide the team to discover the source of the "hauntings". Of course, the team is also there to stop the "hauntings" as well, and they have called in the help of Lorraine Warren, a renown spiritual exocist.

First I would like to address various reviews which point out this was made in conjunction with A&E (TV network) about a most likely popular show called "Paranormal State". I have never seen the show or even heard of it before reading the reviews (after I played the game). So my opinion about this is: fan service, big deal. Half the anime shows on TV and many games on Steam are fan service. (Shrug) The second thing: It seems everyone points out this game is about the paranormal, and they use the word paranormal when stating, in most cases, why they do not like the premise. Would the word ghosts have been better? I notice no one complains about ghosts. My one and only complaint is this arena of real people being depicted in a fan service fictional game is the developers and A&E really should have used the actual real people to do the voices, not voice actors. It is fan service after all.

Gameplay: This game is more point and click then Hidden Object. Being a fan service game, it is very simple and meant for a wider and most likely non-gaming or at least non-Hidden Object/ point and click gaming audience. There is some backtracking and some relatively pointless back and forth movement as the gamer is the "newest team member" gets sent to the other team members to get equipment or information. Also as the newest member the gamer gets all "the work". This game being designed as a nearly interactive game ends up bordering on annoying for someone like me who is a HO junkie. On one side of that annoyance is team leader Ryan Buell who almost comes off as a jerk by sending his newest member to do all the tasks while he and his team sits about. Yet on the other side of that annoyance is the gamer is interactive in the investigation and gets to play with all the "toys". I must say playing with all the "toys" is actually what made the game for me, as well as the actual real life way the investigation is presented such as research and talking with people. (Though the gamer is only given that information since other team members are responsible for that.)

The gameplay is set up in about 5 scenerios which depending on your point of view may or may not seem out of place or illogical in progression. Maintaining the investigative spirit while playing makes the progression logical, as facts and information are uncovered by the team and pointed out by the helpful ghosts.

Puzzles/Hidden Object scenes: OOOOH .... I really liked the actual puzzles. Those were definitely brain twisters and some out-of-box thinking. Most if I remember correctly were old fashioned logic puzzles, and a couple the hair pulling kind. The Hidden Objects scenes were easy and solvable in a couple of minutes.

Overall: The game was worth the play, and I would rate it family oriented. Nothing too hard, the premise fair enough and for those who are not into "paranormal" just leave "reality" at the door and think ghosts instead. As I said before this is fan service and should be treated as such.

Strange story could be from a roman or other book type. Its really detailed and many work for a Hidden Object Game. Sometimes it overdo a bit the many running to get a new object but its fine. For collectors and fans of this genre it get 8.6 points

This was a nice point and click/hidden object game and I'd recommend it to fans of the genre.

It has an interesting story and a good mix of puzzles/hidden object scenes where one does not over power the other. This one is also a lot easier than some point and click games, as it does not require you to play all hidden object scenes and solve all puzzles without skipping (you only have to do 10 of each total and complete 3 in a row without skipping). It also doesn't require you to play the game on Expert, so this is a really nice feature for those who want to relax without having to worry about getting all of the achievements, knowing that you can skip a puzzle you don't like or get help with that one item in a hidden object scene that you just can't find! For those of you who might be squimish, this one may appear to be scary, but it's not really. Just a few small jump scares thrown in, to fit with the "paranormal" theme. This took me about 3-4 hours to complete, so it isn't a huge time commitment either.

Now to move on to some of the cons. The first of which being that there's no way to fast travel. There's a map, but you can only view it for a hint on where to go next, you must manually go to each area. I also found the clicking to be very finicky, which became very frustrating at times. When trying to select an item out of the inventory to place it somewhere, or combining objects in hidden object scenes... I sometimes had a problem with this. It's like the game didn't understand what I wanted to do until I found the EXACT sweet spot that it wanted me to hit. This caused me to literally have to scan an item and try to place it at every pixel, which is annoying and a waste of my time (plus it makes you feel stupid). The characters are voiced, and the artwork is decent.. but during cutscenes, the characters mouths don't move. Words come out.. but their mouths don't move. I've seen this in other point and click games, but here it feels ridiculously obvious because there's always a close up of the character's face. Lastly, it crashed on me a few times.. or crashed when I tried to exit. Which I found very odd. All of your progress is saved, and so there's no harm here, but this is still a negative point that I have to mention.

What if Dean Winchester was real?

Great hidden object adventure game. Some good tough puzzles that had me trying multiple times before I finally was able to solve them. Though never too tough where you'd be frustrated. The graphics were perfect, and what you'd expect from this type of game. The hidden object scenes on the other hand were very tough since many of the scenes required multiple objects to be used to finally get to the item you were looking for. Personally, I enjoyed the difficulty when compared to other hidden object games that I've played in the past.

The story was constantly in your face and didn't take a back seat to the game, however, there was nothing too impressive about the story itself. Overally, a great game that I would definitely recommend, especially if you're into this type of genre.

I truly recommend this game!

- Beautiful graphics and sceneries
- Good interesting story
- Great voice acting
- Various well constructed mini games and HO scenes
- Achievements

I recommend it!

Casual level of difficulty for the Hidden Object Puzzles, but also a good story for Veteran Mystery game fans meaning you can be 93.14% sure you will enjoy this game. Lots of different puzzles to keep things interesting. This game is based on an A&E show, players are a member of a college club called the Paranormal Research Society, or as the cool kids say PRS. In Poison Spring all kinds of creepy stuff happen, and the game is even scary as well at parts! One of the characters Ryan Buell just looks creepy, the characters in cinematics look expressionless which also makes it eerie. Dont let steelhands get away with his master plan to decieve this group of pesky kids, they are supposed to be in college but they all look way to old and one of them looks 90 so not sure what that is about.

Feels pretty short, after beating the game is a bonus game where you return to the dreaded Poison Spring to solve yet another mystery. The puzzles are very well put together, the hidden object parts really fit and dont look like a garage sale vomited stuff all over, each part has a sound, or most do making it feel in depth. Be careful behind some objects are ghosts! Lots of those weird ghost hunting gadgets from the audio device to the camera and a digital signature thing is in the game making you feel all x filey.

Here is a link for history buffs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poison_Spring

*If game is blinking, right click the exe and set it to disable DPI scaling... Problem solved :D
Turn out the lights, use only a candle while playing for maximum chills and thrills!
Rating: 10/10 Value: $7.99