Sadly, this is a game that I cannot recommend. The problem does not stem from it's intriguing story, atmospheric locations, or cleverly placed hidden objects. More importantly, the solitaire board levels take center stage and have a great flow to them... When actually working. And there in lies my main frustration. In almost every solitaire round I encountered a card that was glitched and could not be removed, forcing me to back out of the level and start it over again. I also experienced lag or sputtering when clicking any objects or switching locations. Finally, and the last nail as it were came in the form of system crashes if the game ran for more than a half hour or so at a clip. I verified the game and even reinstalled it again but it was to no avail, as the problems still persisted. After having played off and on for almost 12 hours, I have had to throw in the towel and consign it to my "Do Not Play" collection.

As much as I love shooters and RPG sword play etc, sometimes I like to play a chill game and relax. This game does that. I am a fan of solitaire and hidden object games, so I like the idea of bridging the gap between the two and also having an in depth story line. I've only played chapter 1, but so far I have not encounter any bugs. The game play seems smooth. My only complaint is I wished the developer would have included puzzles like that are in other hidden object games, but over all I am enjoying the game. So, yes I recommend this game to anyone else that likes the solitaire/HOG genres.

My Experience

DigiMight really doesn't do a bad job with their +1/-1 solitaire games. Although their games can be mechanically quite similar in terms of abilities and board obstacles, I can count on them to produce a quality product.

Detective Notes also includes hidden object levels interspersed with the solitaire, which is a fitting touch for a detective story. However, you return to the same locations far too often to search. While most of the items are easy enough to locate, some of them are quite difficult. Luckily, the game includes a hint system that can guide your eyes to the correct location.

The story was more interesting than the story in most games of this kind, although I suspected Lily of deceit far in advance of her brother Mark. The visual design of the environments and characters was impressive and served to increase my immersion into the tale.

The story is terrible, dont play it for that. It is however a fairly engaging and at times challenging card game with powerups based progression. Worth a look for that.

Excellent

A cute little casual game, Lighthouse Mystery Solitaire's name sums the game up perfectly. There's a mystery around a spooky old lighthouse and 200 rounds of solitaire. The game has five chapters consisting of forty rounds of solitaire and four Hidden Object scenes. Each HO scene is book-ended with story pieces around your main character and their sibling trying to solve the mystery.

The game is cheap and you'll get around ten hours of play out of it. It was a fine calm little timewaster in-between RPGs and other games.

Also, I was not expecting the game to go full Lovecraft, but considering how many Cthulhu oriented games I have played and own, this twist isn't surprising in retrospect. IA! IA!

Quite a good solitaire game, with an intriguing story, good graphics & suitable suspence music. I'd say, it's on par with Regency Solitaire & definately deserves more players.
It has a short intermediate sequence at the end of every chapter of a hidden objects game. I am not really a fan of hidden objects games or majong, which some of the solitaires also have included, but i find this HO mini game not very hard to master & matching well the atmosphere of a detective story, so still a recommendation. On top, you can just skip it.