Honnêtement, pour 0.99€ en soldes et pour environ 2 heures de jeu, ça vaut la peine.

C'est un jeu d'objets cachés avec énigmes assez classique dont la seule originalité est de pouvoir "voyager" dans le passé pour cacher des objets afin de les retrouver dans le présent.

Mis à part cela, le seul gameplay est de cliquer sans réelle réflexion derrière, d'autant plus que le scénario (assez simple) n'est expliqué qu'au travers des quelques notes qu'on peut trouver durant nos 120 minutes de jeu, donc cela ne va jamais très très loin.

A prendre en soldes si vous êtes vraiment friands de ce type de jeu.

Haunted Past est un autre jeu du développeur de Princess Isabella, Gogii Games, et est clairement une création plus récente. Les graphiques sont plus propres, l'art est meilleur et les scènes sont plus détaillées en termes d'animation et de son. Cela ressemble aussi à un jeu plus mature dans le ton et le design. Le motif de la maison hantée est sans cavalier ni aiguillon, et les énigmes sont un peu plus difficiles que celles d'Isabella. C'est un jeu très poli, même s'il est encore un peu dépassé.

Une omission étrange que je devrais mentionner est qu’il n’y a pas de carte, et donc pas de déplacement rapide entre les pièces, mais le flux de jeu est assez linéaire et il est judicieux d’inclure quelques raccourcis pour revenir en arrière. Le gameplay est un jeu de puzzles à travers les salles, les scènes d'objets cachés étant presque une caractéristique secondaire. À noter qu'avec les meilleurs graphiques, les scènes d'objets cachés sont en réalité plus faciles puisque tout est plus distinct.

Le grand truc du jeu est le "monde des esprits", qui consiste à alterner les versions fantomatiques des pièces où vous pouvez trouver des objets supplémentaires. Non seulement vous devez trouver les objets, vous devez les "cacher" dans un endroit où vous pouvez les récupérer dans le monde réel, car les fantômes vont les voler. Ce ne sont pas des énigmes particulièrement difficiles, mais ils ajoutent une variété un peu appréciée.

Si vous parvenez à gérer une conception de casse-tête obsolète, il s'agit d'un jeu solide de 2 à 3 heures qui se situe en fait davantage sur l'extrémité du spectre que sur l'objet caché, mais devrait suffire soit à l'un ou à l'autre. Vous ne recevrez aucun succès, à jouer que pour le plaisir. Je le recommande fortement.

Amicalement
Le pasteur

Haunted Past est un hidden dans lequel vous héritez d'un manoir décrépit et qui s'avère être hanté...
A peine arrivé sur place, vous voyez votre mère dans le miroir, vous expliquant les pouvoirs que vous avez... c'est à dire pouvoir revoir les pièces au temps où elles étaient encore en bon état.

Et je dois avouer que le principe est sympathique car dans leurs version ghost, il vous arrivera de cacher des objets afin de les retrouver plus tard dans votre temps.

Cependant, Haunted Past manque sérieusement le coche avec son histoire où la narration est mise en retrait bien trop loin, il est encore heureux que l'on puisse récupérer par çi, par là, des pages qui s'ajoutent à notre journal et nous permet de mieux comprendre le pourquoi du comment.

Haunted Past a fait l'impasse sur la carte mais indique par un message si toutes les actions ont étés faites dans un lieu donné mais ceci dit on ne fait des retours en arrière que très peu.

Malgré son âge (édité en 2011 pour la première fois), il reste clair et ne pose guère de problème quand à la recherche des objets lors des SOC. Il en de même pour les quelques puzzles qui le parsème...

Il n'y a ni collectible, ni chapitre bonus pour information... c'est le minimum syndical

Est-ce pour autant un bon jeu? Ben cela dépend de ce que vous cherchez... Si c'est l'histoire ce n'est pas vraiment le jeu pour vous, si c'est la recherche d'objets et la résolution d'énigmes, vous devriez y passer un moment sympa...

Pour ma part, le peu de narration et la séquence de fin très courte m'incite à mettre un avis négatif.

I'm not giving this a thumbs down because it's a bad game. In fact, it's an extremely fun game. However, it's also extremely short. When the game ended, I just sat there dumbfounded. I couldn't believe the game was over already and the story seemed incomplete - there were questions that never got answered. So I looked up the walkthrough on Gamezebo to see if I had missed anything. It turns out that there is a "collector's edition" with more to the story. So I DO recommend this game. But don't buy it on Steam. Buy it elsewhere and make sure it's the Collector's Edition. If you're a hidden object fan, you'll love this game.

Haunted Past tells a simple, yet exciting ghost story with an excellent atmosphere in the form of a hidden object game with a few nice mechanics.

A female protagonist in a haunted house unravelling a ghost story is basically hidden object game making 101. What makes Haunted Past: Realm of Ghosts different is how the developers made sure that the player is interested and invested in their tale.
Their greatest tool was the pacing, which involves just enough backtracking to shake the feeling of being stuck in a corridor, but not too much to make anyone run around in circles (thanks to the room clearance indicators).

The game has no traditional puzzles, only item gathering point ‘n’ click style, and lots and lots of hidden object scenes. These two elements are often combined into single-room challenges, called ghost rooms, where you must find and hide items to use them later in the normal world.
Sadly, not even this abundance of hidden object scenes could save the play time that barely reaches two hours, which may be too short even for such an engaging game.

As far as hidden object games go, it's a decent one for the collection.

The HOG genre are all very similar in terms of plot lines and gameplay, so it's hard to review these kind of games in detail without all of these reviews sounding the same.

The plots are always treasure hunters, old time detectives or historians looking for a special artifact, a murderer or just plain ol' answers. They're always set in spooky houses, old ruins or other planes of existence. History is revealed, secrets are unraveled and generally just all that kind of stuff really.

Despite hidden object games being all very similar to each other, they are a guilty pleasure of mine as i do just enjoy the hidden object scenes and puzzles you find in these games.

This one is set in haunted house. You need to find what happened, whose behind it and destroy the evil entity. The story was interesting, it was nothing amazing but it kept me playing which is always good.

In terms of puzzles, there wasn't really any in this one. It was more so just clear each room and move on. I quite liked the pace of the game as i was only looking for a short few hour game to complete so it worked for me!

This game also has an interesting feature of being able to switch between two planes of existence. You can find items you need in the other realm and hide them somewhere for you to find in the real world. This kind of switches the gameplay up a little bit and it's always nice to play the slightly more unique HOGs.

In terms of the object finding, the scenes weren't too cluttered to the point your eyes hurt, and the items were well blended into the scenes. So all around good on that part in my opinion.

All in all it's a decent one, if you enjoy the HOG genre then this is definitely one you can whiz through and add to pile.


TL;DR : It's decent for a hidden object game, pretty standard but it's enjoyable.

You inherited a mansion but once there, everything is in disarray and dark. When you realize that ghosts are haunting it, you meet the woman that was killed... your mother. An evil is lurking around and your only way to beat it is to use your gift of walking between the ghost and the living realms....

Haunted Past: Realm of Ghosts is one of these games in my backlog that I decided to play after stumbling upon it on Big Fish games, when I was adding to Neoseeker the series Haunted Manor. Haunted Past was the game just under. When I realized that I had it in my library, I told myself why not?

So far, I liked the plot. I also liked the twist in the game. Sure, it's not the plot of the year. But at least, you're not discovering the truth early on.

The gameplay is the standard one: find items, use them, clear hidden objects scenes and solve puzzles. However, here, you have a special feature: the ghost realm. Indeed, through mirrors, you can access the same room but in another realm and in its previous state. Items found there can't be brought back with you to the real world, so you have to hid them in the ghost room and to find them in the real world. While it's true that these areas are cleared fairly quick, it's still a nice way to influence the world (example: a cushion was put in the real room but in the ghost realm, it's not there. So you use your brain to make one with the items hidden in it... and tadaaa, the cushion in the real world will have them!). Also, to help you, each time a room is totally cleared, a message is shown. And last but not least, some doors are closed because of evil magic/spirit. They can be opened by doing the right glyph you'll find around...

Everything is easy, apart for same areas that you can't really see. It might have been influenced by the weather here, as it was a little sunny and that I had to move my screen to find a correct angle (as I'm playing hidden objects games on my laptop mainly).

The graphics are quite good, very darker in the real world, as the estate is abandoned but when you go to the ghost realm, it's very bright. The soundtrack is also good.

In other words, for 5 bucks, you have a good little casual adventure game, with a good plot, good graphics and interesting features. It would be sad for you to miss it. Go for it, whether it's full price or discounted.

This is an odd mystery game maybe better avoided than enjoyed by anyone and very very very short. The game is short and all puzzles can be skipped with hint buttons if stuck somewhere. Adjustable difficulty is nice but its the way the game is designed that is the weak point. Many of the hidden object puzzles have a colored filter over the entire screen making everything seem white, blue, or black. This is very straining to try and enjoy veteran players will find, while casual players spamming the hint button will probably just turn it off.

The story is good not that it matters this is a game, and the gameplay is where it breaks down. There is an interesting mechanic used of switching from the present to the ghostly past where you can move items from the past to the present. This is very interesting, would be nice to see some sort of mechanic like that used in future games. Doesnt feel very ghosty overall, not to spooky which is a downer for october scary gaming :(

Rating: 4/10 Value: $1.99$

I like the occasional hidden object game as a break from endless zombie slaying and the conquering of endless realms. This game indeed scratches that itch. Very casual; extremely linear and the hidden object areas are good but not too difficult or clever. Where this game fails is in the so called puzzles. They are extremely simple and the developers failed so far offering no mini-games with these. Where the game gets it right is presentation. Good atmosphere, the graphics & sound/music are good for it's genre.
I believe that casual players and gamers like myself who are looking for a change of pace will enjoy this game. However aficionados of this type of game will probably find it lacking. Only once did I even consider using the hint button to find a hidden object and a few times I found myself wishing the hidden object portions where either longer or more difficult; this on the so called advanced setting.

its fine...ive seen better HOG games before.
5/10