Fantastic Creations: House of Brass Collector's/Standard Edition Review & Download

In this Hidden Object Game Fantastic Creations: House of Brass you are turning into the explorer of an underground vault, full of clockwork wonders. You are trapped inside, so find a way out or die trying!

Rating: 4.6/5.

for only $ 13.99!

Hello, friends. Today Big Fish Games released new Adventure Hidden Object Puzzle game - Fantastic Creations: House of Brass, developed by the Big Fish Games itself. You can download it from the link overhead. As usual, Collector's Edition of the game released for 14 dollars, Standard edition for $ 6.99 (or $2.99 for the new customers) was released in the end of March. Collector's Edition of Fantastic Creations: House of Brass costs $13.99. But let's forget about sad and watch a gameplay video at start of our review.

Fantastic Creations: House of Brass starts a new series of HOG, dedicated to the stories and puzzles, connected with the different machinery. Big Fish Games will create this series exclusively, gaining full control on the development process according to the gamers' demands, trying to create a perfect casual game. Let's see, was their brave attempt successful in the first game - Fantastic Creations: House of Brass.

Story of Fantastic Creations: House of Brass Collector's Edition is pretty dramatic. You grown up and live noticing, that there is no references in your family about your grandfather - Edwin Q. Cogglethorpe. It's look like there is some sad story happened, connected with him and your grandmother - Gwendolyn.

When someone accidentally mentioned about Edwin, she always stopped talking and walking away. So your curiosity about your grandpa remaining unsatisfied. And this curiosity set you at the edge of living and death in Fantastic Creations: House of Brass, when you will find a last will of Edwin, sent to your grandmother Gwendolyn. There Edwin written that he is sad and alone, that their home become empty, silent and abandoned without Gwen. He asked her to return, but Gwendolyn ignored this letter.

In the Edwin's letter was mentioned about a firefly, that can lead Gwen to their home. You seen this mechanical firefly before - in your grandma's stuff, half-disassembled. So you find this firefly again, reassemble and recharge it and follow it's flight right to your grandpa's old manor. That's how Fantastic Creations: House of Brass Collector's Edition begins.

Edwin written a password to the door lock in the letter, so you bravely setup it on the lock. Password was written correctly, but unfortunately for you without the necessary maintenance the lock broken and triggers a trap for a unwanted visitors (or thiefs, simply saying). Trapdoor under you opens and you felt into the pipe. And you falling down for a long time.

When you restore yourself after the hard landing in Fantastic Creations: House of Brass you finding yourself in the middle of technogenic labyrinth, full of whimsical and fancy machines, some of them are broken, others - works incorrectly. You will find out that mind of your grandpa, Edwin Q. Cogglethorpe was shaded after your grand-mom leave him, so he build a giant vault for his inventions. For many years Edwin made hundreds of forbidden experiments ahead of his time. He made this in his estate, combining home and laboratory in one place. And when Gwen leave him (he gives twenty hours of his daytime to work, other was divided between wife, food and sleep) Edwin hide the results of his experiments deep underground.

Edwin Q. Cogglethorpe developed complicated anti-theft system to protect his inventions, sometimes being too paranoid. And now you are in the middle of his deadly traps, so your main task for Fantastic Creations: House of Brass is simple: find a way out from this underground vault. To move up you should head your way floor by floor. To move up first you must restore and repair main mechanisms of the floor on each of the floors. This won't be easy, even with the help of your grandpa. Signalization warns him about your crazy arrival and when he find out that you are his grandchild, he start to help you.

Forty years Edwin Q. Cogglethorpe set his inventions on various levels of his vault, forgetting to repair damaged or broken things. So now only few mechanisms are working here correctly, others are doing something, but not the things they are developed for. So the vault in Fantastic Creations: House of Brass is full of grave dangers. House of Brass Game Puzzles are mostly logical - to repair mechanism without some detail you must find this detail (or similar detail) and set it to the right place. But there is funny hidden object scenes, I've seen such scenes only a few times. Usually you have names of objects you are looking for ( a lamp, butterfly, statue, mushroom etc) or  silhouettes of those objects. In Fantastic Creations: House of Brass Game you may have only the general direction of searches, for example: "Find objects that spin and turn". Very refreshing.

Most of the mechanisms are working on steam, so you mostly will manipulate the steam-driven contraptions, just like in Depths of Betrayal. You will puzzle through strange inventions of your grandfather, many of them reflects his obsession by your grandma. Will you be able to escape house of brass and see the sunlight once again, or you will stay underground forever? Download Fantastic Creations: House of Brass Collector's Edition and prove the sharpness of your mind!
For now game is available for Windows only Mac users are patiently waiting their turn.

Time for review's summary. Fantastic Creations: House of Brass is a good game with interesting and unusual storyline about love and technology, great graphics, interesting hidden object scenes, nice music and sounds (dialogs are fully sounded too). Fantastic Creations: House of Brass game setting is fully mechanical - no magic, no ghosts - only technique. Puzzles are great and various, and so are hidden object scenes, where you looking for the objects, knowing only their purpose. If you like tech - Fantastic Creations: House of Brass Collector's Edition game is just for you! Good luck!

Rating: 4.6/5.

for only $ 13.99!

Depths of Betrayal Collector's/Standard Edition Review & Download

Welcome to the steampunk world of Depths of Betrayal, where steam robot with independent mind, created by the team of genius inventors, turned himself against his creators!

Rating: 4.5/5

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  for only $ 2.99!

Hello, my friends. After a long break Big Fish Games released new Collector's Edition of Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game - Depths of Betrayal. Game is created by the Artogon Games and dedicated to the unusual for today (but still very popular) steampunk thematics. You won't see any ghosts or sorcerers in Depths of Betrayal - only science, only robots. But better to see once than hear a hundred times - let's watch Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition gameplay video.

As you may see, Depths of Betrayal is dedicated to the destiny of the powerful robot, who disobey to his masters and start a rebellion. Robot (and many other mechanisms in town, where Depths of Betrayal's actions taking place) is working using power of steam, so this Adventure dedicated to the steampunk genre.

Steampunk, used in Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition appeared as an independent sub-genre of a science fiction not long time ago - only during 1980s and early 1990s (Wikipedia About Steampunk). Just in best traditions of steampunk characters of Depths of Betrayal are wearing Victorian clothes and suits, steam power is widely used - even more widely, than the electricity. But let's start our review.

All futuristic innovations of steam Victorians can only dream about are implemented in this happy town. Steam coaches, steam locomotives, all kinds of anachronistic technology can be found in Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition. And robots, steam golems - everywhere, of course.

Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition Game style is row and correct - Victorian art, architecture, culture, even Victorian press - everything included. Look like works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne were visionary and all their science fiction inventions came true. But there is always a fly in the ointment, and red (or green) eyes of the steam golems, doing all the dirty work all around the town, watching you with more and more strange facial expression.

You came into this happy steampunk-haven town after receiving invitation from the Ph.D. Morgan Grundlagen, your old friend and famous inventor. You lost all connections with him a long time ago, but suddenly receiving a letter, in which Morgan asking your help. And that's how Depths of Betrayal begins.

Grundlagen wrote, that he is administer an experiment, very unusual one. If Morgan's experiment will succeeded, it may become a new word in steam science, in science at all - absolute breakthrough! But Morgan wrote, that your participation and expertise is absolutely necessary for the project success. That is strange, because you aren't pretty good in science - you are more experienced in talking and convincing people. Once you participated in doctor's robotic development, but that was a long time ago and you moved forward since than.

Morgan Grundlagen was so persistent that he prepay all transport expenses. He promised that after your train arrival at 17-00 he will meet you on the train station, but when you arrive there was no one there. And this is just the first mystery of Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition! Soon you finding out the terrible truth: last Grundlagen's creation - steam robot - turned against his creator, betrays him. And now he is doing damage and destruction all over the town, killing the team members that are created him.

Train crashes, havoc spreading wider, so you take as a first priority task to stop the crazy robot. Looking for the way to do so you are also looking for the answers: why this is happening, why simple robot become rebel, how he gained free will? You will examine darkest depths of betrayal on your way to the game end, even watch the video of Grundlagen's death from the hands of the golem. You will explore incredible locations, travel on the giant dirigible, cable car over a precipice and - in the end - directly face the rebel robot.

Interface of Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition is pretty unusual and innovative. First of all, everything  designed in the steampunk style. If to use some object you must first apply some other items on them, they are shown in the special menu all around the object - very useful, simple and pleasant.

Examining the town, trying to discover whereabouts of the steam golem and Dr. Grundlagen in Depths of Betrayal you will find an old photo from your youth, lost by the golem, just the same you have. On this photo the whole Grundlagen's team shown, including you. But some faces are crossed - golem is already find and kill them. Will you be the next victim? Or you will be able to save town from the destruction?

On your way to stop this monstrous robot in Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition you may use Integrated Strategy guide and have additional fun while playing bonus gameplay chapter. Collector's Edition also includes Wallpapers in different dimensions, based on the Depths of Betrayal thematics and Concept art from the game. In bonus gameplay you will see more lighter-than-air airships, analog computers and steam engines. If info from the strategy guide isn't enough for you - try to search the game forum.

Summing up, Depths of Betrayal game is pretty good. There is not many steampunk hidden object games right now, so if you like this genre - Depths of Betrayal is for you. As about cons: I may say that some puzzles are boring (not every of them, of course) are boring or not intuitive, so to understand it you must use Strategy guide. Hidden object scenes somethimes including to few objects to search. Those flaws didn't let me give Depths of Betrayal Collector's Edition higher rating, although I'm steampunk fun. Good luck to you, play games and be happy!

 for only $ 13.99!

  for only $ 2.99!

Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar Collector's Edition Review

Rating: 4.4/5.

Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar Collector's Edition Review

What can expect a young girl with a long dark beautiful hair, while traveling across the world? To see new places, to get a good impressions, to meet her soul mate. And that is exactly what happened in this interesting game, at least, at the game's beginning. But then you arrived to the town of Ulthar.

 for only $ 13.99!

Hi everyone. Big Fish Games released new interesting & exclusive Hidden Object/Puzzle/Adventure game - Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar. I hope it will be the beginning of the new game series about Ghost Towns, because this game is good. But let's not get ahead of ourselves and start the review of the Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar with the gameplay video (taken on YouTube).

Not bad, very impressive graphics and nice sounding. But let's discover what pluses and flaws are hidden inside this Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar game, and does it worth paying $ 13.99 - Big Fish Games traditionally released Collector's Edition only. Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar Standard Edition for $6.99/$2.99 (new customers only) will be available for buying in a month or so.

So Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar game started when young careless girl with a dark long hair came into the strange town of Ulthar. Her future mate Menes lived there for a whole life and must have meet her. But from the first steps something gone terribly wrong. Town looks abandoned, many buildings are half-ruined, it's cold and raining. There is no human being who is meeting you, neither Menes, nor someone he could sent if couldn't came himself, for example, his sister.

You can hear the dreary meowing cats, and soon you will find one little black cat. You will take it to warm and caress, but without special attention - you are crossing the Ulthar, trying to find any information about the town (and maybe to know something about your future beloved one Menes). And when you will came into the center of Ulthar you will find out the terrible truth: for some unknown horrible crimes committed by Menes he is sentenced to death! His sister will send you a secret message with desperate call of help during some other poor guy execution  - he was hanged for some small crime.

And if you think that make the things right in Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar will be easy - think again. Town-folk are really angry and they neither let you to see Menes nor telling you what crime he committed. How can you prove Menes's innocence if you even can't tell for what he will be punished? His sister is hiding underground, she is ragged and eating junk. Her only friend is another black cat. Cats likely plays a great role in social life of Ulthar.

As far as you exploring Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar game world, you will gain more and more clues that your beloved one's destiny is connected with the strange religion of the Ulthar. It's look like cats taking central place in their pantheon, but sometimes people of Ulthar are killing cats. Maybe Menes tried to save one of the cats? But whatever he did, he shouldn't be burned at the stake - that's how Ulthar people are going to punish him.

And soon you will be threatened by the Ulthar people. But if you wil be afraid and escape from Ulthar then innocent boy will be burned at the stake! But even escaping the death you again and again will see signs of cat influence: pictures, bas-reliefs, even fountains. And traveling through Ulthar's secret ways you will see many strange things - from the various puzzles and winter-garden to the alive crocodile!

Find out, why the citizens of Ulthar worship the cats and how it's connected with the Meneses fate. Discover the strange cult, taken over the town of Ulthar, that is using cats supernatural powers to rule the townsfolk. Save Menes before it's too late!

Now I will tell you about my experience with Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar Collector's Edition. Gameplay is pretty standard for the Hidden Object games - you are looking for the objects, named in the list below your screen, after some time you will have a hint, opening one of the objects for you (hints are rechargeable). After 1-2 hidden object scenes you will face the puzzle (matching objects, repairing mechanisms, opening locks and so on), most of them are familiar to every experienced casual gamer. But in whole gameplay isn't boring, it's hard to stop playing The Cats Of Ulthar before you end it.

IMHO Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar game is short enough, it may be completed in one evening (or night). Of course, Collector's edition including bonus chapter - about 2 hours of additional game experience, but in whole I wasn't satisfied by the game length. Collector's edition of Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar also includes Integrated Strategy Guide, Wallpapers, dark and spooky Screensaver, soundtrack - traditional set for the Big Fish Games Collector's Edition. What I really liked - animals animation. Characters are animated in cartoon style, not my favorite, but animals (including the crocodile I mentioned above) are very realistic.
If you need some technical information about game (for example, experiencing bugs or something) go to the Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar game forum. 

Summing up Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar Collector's Edition is good game. It's recommended for everyone who loves cats (cats are everywhere in the Ulthar - living cats, murals, statues and so on) and for other gamers, who is tired of usual HOGs about ghosts. Gameplay is captivating and interesting, landscapes are dark and beautiful. If you don't sure about it - just try the game - it's free (game Ghost Towns: The Cats Of Ulthar Collector's Edition is shareware, so you can play it free for one hour). And I hope you will like The Cats of Ulthar just as I do. Good luck!

 for only $ 13.99!

The Agency of Anomalies: Cinderstone Orphanage Collector's Edition Review & Download

Rating: 4.9/5.

                                       for only $ 13.99!

Hi everyone, The Agency of Anomalies 2 has arrived! Big Fish Games released the sequel of a very successful hidden object game  the Agency of Anomalies - The Agency of Anomalies 2: Cinderstone Orphanage. As usual Big Fish Games Studios firstly released only the Collector's Edition of this game. Let's see in this review, what should we do now in the Cinderstone Orphanage and does this game worth the fame of the great first part. And we will start reviewing The Agency of Anomalies: Cinderstone Orphanage from the short video with game review:

As you may see, game story of the second part taking place in the Orphanage (if you played the first part of The Agency of Anomalies then you know - that time you were investigating the hospital, full of mystical and supernatural beings). Cinderstone Orphanage has been destroyed by a fire, looks like fire was caused by unnatural cause - some incendiaries did their merciless job.

Police can't find any clues, leading to the criminals, because the arsonists were supernatural - likely they was ghosts. So now The Agency of Anomalies is sending you to the Cinderstone Orphanage to investigate the situation. There are both PC and Mac version of the game available.

In the first part - The Agency of Anomalies: Mystic Hospital you also was a special agent of The Agency of Anomalies. You was investigating a military hospital, full of very strange and terrible things. Military commanders decide to made some nonhuman cruel experiments on patients and prisoners there, continuing the darkest discoveries of Nazi scientists and doctors. But as usual something went wrong. Soldiers, nurses that were placed in this hospital even doctors and scientists were transformed into the ravenous hideous beasts. Few survivors were killed by transformed crazy doctors and patients, others run away as fast as possible. So army screwed up and now asked The Agency of Anomalies for help.

The Agency of Anomalies sent the best agent it has - you - into that cursed place. For the first look it's just another game in the row of games, actions of which are happening in the abandoned buildings of hospitals (preferably psychiatric), it's kind a popular cliché. Silent Hill, F.A.C.E.S this row can be continued endlessly. But The Agency of Anomalies wasn't the usual clone. Dr. Oliver Orvos called to The Agency of Anomalies, asking you  to stop a dimensional vortex in this hospital. If you will fail, maybe the whole humanity will be erased from the face of Earth. Exploring the cursed hospital you will find out, that Dr. Odin Dagon, leading scientist of that hospital was trying to create the ultimate warrior - super soldier. Dagon injected supernatural serum into the veins of the volunteers and military prisoners. For a time it was good, but then things went worse and worse.

Experiments of Dr. Odin did not end well - energy was too powerful for a human beings. They are morphed into the monsters and start to create havoc and destruction. In the result there were created the hollow man, the invisible man and the werewolf. Oliver Orvos didn't like those results and he was fired by Dr. Odin, thats why he's alive - he wasn't in the hospital during the final injection, when the whole hospital explode.  

Dr. Orvos gave you a Nexus, full of supernatural energy. It became your only protection from the monsters and reality flaws inside the hospital. But with the present amount of energy he won't be helpful against the dimensional vortex, so the whole planet may explode. So the only hope for the humanity was to explore the hospital, looking for the supernatural energy and collecting it until it will be enough to stop the vortex.

The Agency of Anomalies: Mystic Hospital game was really splendid, hidden object scenes were huge and includes up to 25 objects to find, various puzzles, including standard adventure quests - place the needed object into the needed place. Also there were special achievements in the Mystic Hospital - bonuses for ending hidden object scenes without using a single hint, collecting hidden postcards onto the scenes (they weren't included in the list of objects-to-find). Graphics and atmosphere of the post-war hospital in the game were really incredible. Also it included an enormously long bonus chapter in the Collector's edition (the game itself also had a decent length). And now sequel of this great game has been released.

In the Agency of Anomalies: Cinderstone Orphanage you are still the best agents of this national security service, dealing with paranormal catastrophes and crimes. This time you are sent to the Orphanage, that was burned to the ground by unknown origins, likely, by ghosts. Those Orphanage was created for the gifted children and those children's talents wasn't just talent of math or art. Soon you will find out that some mystical brotherhood is after that terrible fire, that caused the Cinderstone Orphanage to be abandoned. Police think that children and their caretaker are dead, but their bodies never were found. So now you, as a full responsible representative of the Agency of Anomalies must find out their fate.

Game includes great documentation and description for every quest and puzzle, made as note book with detailed notes about your every task. It including photos, images of your task and detailed description of what you should do. For example, you have an acid mixed with water and you need to separate them. When you will find a necessary recipe in your note book will be shown the picture of chemical reaction and description of the action sequence you should do: first you should warm the water, then add a needed reagent...

Soon you found out that brotherhood with the help of corrupted administrative workers of the Orphanage performed terrible experiments with children with supernatural abilities, and after the unexpected results of such experiments the fire was made to destroy any traces of those tests and studies. But the children isn't dead - they are trapped by the brotherhood and you are the only one able to save them. But yourself you cannot do it - only using the abilities of the scared children you can save them and yourself from this deadly trap.

Every kid has his special ability - one girl can paint animals that are turning alive, another can throw a fireball. And you have a power keeper, that can be charged by those kid's powers, opening new ways and abilities for you. Exploring the rooms of Cinderstone Orphanage, using all vocational training you had in The Agency of Anomalies you will find out about the past of the orphans and orphanage, why they have those super-abilities. It's impossible to watch those children hurt by the evil experimenters, so atmosphere in the game are just incredible. In the Collectors Edition of The Agency of Anomalies: Cinderstone Orphanage you will find the Bonus gameplay chapter (long enough, about 1.5-2 hours to complete), 8 interesting puzzle mini-games, Integrated Strategy Guide (pretty usual), achievements (just like in the first part of the game) and collectible items. If you need info about some technical issues, go on the game forum.

The Agency of Anomalies: Cinderstone Orphanage Collector's Edition is definitely worth downloading and playing. If you don't want to pay $ 13.99 you can download Standard Edition for PC or for Mac for only $ 6.99 (or even $ 2.99 for a new customers).  It at very least isn't worse than the Mystic Hospital, and I like Cinderstone Orphanage even more. Graphics in the The Agency of Anomalies 2 is great. For example, look on the spruce twig on the one of the screenshots - isn't it 100% realistic? Story is great and game mechanics is pretty unusual - with every collected power, given to you by one of the orphans you can solve some puzzles and find some new ways, unavailable for you before. I recommend this game for you, even if you weren't play the Mystic Hospital - game is worth of attention of every Hidden Object games fan. Play The Agency of Anomalies 2 and have lot of fun!

                                       for only $ 13.99!