Halloween Chronicles: Monsters Among Us > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

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5 / 5

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MY FAVORITE TYPE OF HALLOWEEN GAME

PostedNovember 16, 2018

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

It looks like BFG has gone all out this year with Halloween games and then some. Almost every game since September has been devoted to some sort of horror; as well as monsters and ghouls of one sort or another. Domini has jumped into the arena with Halloween Chronicles Monsters Among Us and it is a Halloween delight. For those of you who love this time of year and all that it has to offer, you ...Show more

It looks like BFG has gone all out this year with Halloween games and then some. Almost every game since September has been devoted to some sort of horror; as well as monsters and ghouls of one sort or another. Domini has jumped into the arena with Halloween Chronicles Monsters Among Us and it is a Halloween delight. For those of you who love this time of year and all that it has to offer, you will probably like this game. Even with Halloween not being my favorite event, I am enjoying Halloween Chronicles.

Although I find the game is rather slow in the beginning, I do enjoy the HOPS and Puzzles a lot. The only things that I dislike in the game are the very slow beginning and the unrealistic color palette that Domini has once again chosen for a game. That being said I like the graphics in this game far more than those in other recent games from Domini.

Domini has created some wonderful HOPS that include a slider type scene that I haven’t seen in ages. Most of the HOPS are very well-designed and blend into the storyline which increased the fun I am having as I play through this entertaining and long game.

There is not a lot to say about the Puzzles in Halloween Chronicles except that all of them are excellent. What I appreciate is that we do have a choice of selecting whether we would like “Easy or Hard Puzzles” when we set up the game but you can change your selection as you encounter each puzzles. I normally select the “Hard” setting but I did change that to “Easy” once or twice when I didn’t want to spend a lot of time solving the puzzle in the more difficult setting.

This is such a fun game and, at least to me, it is one of the best games during the fall season. Even though it is full of monsters of one sort or another, I didn’t find any of them to be too gross or even frightening. This is my type of Halloween game and it was more fun since I didn’t feel like I was running for my life as I played the game. Even though this Halloween Chronicle is the perfect game for me, please try the demo to see if it is just right for you. Happy gaming! Show less

I recommend this game!

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A Colorful Halloween Adventure!

PostedOctober 23, 2019

JulzCat

fromCharlotte, NC

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5 / 5

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Storyline

4 / 5

It's nice to play a Halloween game that's not dark and dingy, for once!

You're home from medical school to visit your father and discover the town has been taken over by monsters and only you can save everyone! I didn't find it to be particularly scary and feel that it would be safe for older children. The colors are bright and cheerful and I don't recall anything jumping out at me. There were ...Show more

It's nice to play a Halloween game that's not dark and dingy, for once!

You're home from medical school to visit your father and discover the town has been taken over by monsters and only you can save everyone! I didn't find it to be particularly scary and feel that it would be safe for older children. The colors are bright and cheerful and I don't recall anything jumping out at me. There were lots of interesting locations and a happy surprise ending! Show less

I recommend this game!

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Loved this game.

PostedJune 13, 2022

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Hidden Object

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

It is the first game since I started years ago that had, to me, a really good storyline. Usually, I couldn't care less, but this one took my interest. Loved the games and hidden objects too. Nice, highly recommended.

I recommend this game!

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Such a great game

PostedNovember 7, 2021

Pikelet

fromLincolnshire, UK

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I loved this game, just the right amount of hidden object scenes and puzzles, which were a bit different from the usual. The graphics were great too!

I recommend this game!

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Good Holiday Fun

PostedOctober 29, 2021

sundragon36

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Time Management

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Fun Factor

4 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

I decided to ignore the reviews for a change and bought the standard version. I enjoyed the game. It was a good length, had a good storyline, and I had fun. I'm not crazy about puzzles and skipped several as they were challenging but there was plenty else to do in this game. I think it was well worth it and would buy again.

I recommend this game!

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HOPE YOU DON'T HAVE PEDIOPHOBIA OR COULROPHOBIA

PostedNovember 18, 2018

pennmom36

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Halloween is quickly approaching, and so are the monsters who anxiously await All Hallows Eve! Riverstown, Virginia will never be the same once the Master has been released to walk amongst the living. All hope is not lost yet! You may have been sheltered from the dangerous truth for most of your childhood, sheltered from learning the true identity of your parents, but now that the truth has been ...Show more

Halloween is quickly approaching, and so are the monsters who anxiously await All Hallows Eve! Riverstown, Virginia will never be the same once the Master has been released to walk amongst the living. All hope is not lost yet! You may have been sheltered from the dangerous truth for most of your childhood, sheltered from learning the true identity of your parents, but now that the truth has been revealed, it's time to follow in your family's footsteps. It's time to hunt down the Monsters Among Us!

Good news! The overabundance of Blurple colors has not been used in Domini's newest series Halloween Chronicles! The bad news is that Blurple has been swapped with Neon Green, but at least I didn't lose my diary/journal note to a random gust of wind! More good news, I'm not carrying around a large paper map because I have a phone! More bad news, there's no need for magic glasses, but there is a need for a magic camera, does everything have to center around magic items my little origami puppy?

This is a very long game, another feature Domini is famous for, but for me personally, it's a little too stretched out. I find the added filler tasks to become tedious because they don't add anything to the storyline. The tasks are just added to make the game longer but at the same time, it can become boring when you're just doing the same thing over and over. If this game were a little creepier, less neonish in color, and more condensed, it would be a 5-star game in my eyes.

The Hidden Object Scenes are mostly variations of Keywords in Sentence finds as Silhouetted Shape finds, Listed Item finds, Multiple Item finds, and Combination Silhouetted Shape finds (the product of 2 items combined) There are several Zoom Zone Hidden Object Scenes available that usually require finding 6 or more objects shown as Silhouetted Shapes. There is an alternate Match 3 game available and there is an achievement for playing a Match 3 game instead of the HOP.

The Mini-Games are fairly creative and I haven't come across a lot of my nemesis puzzles where "selecting one may affect others" which this dev is famous for at times, so I appreciate that immensely. In the Custom Mode Difficulty setting, you can opt to have the Mini-Games start out in an Easy or Hard difficulty mode, however, you can always select the opposite for each one, once they pop-up. I love this feature, I always start out in the Hard Mode, and if it's mind-boggling, I simply switch to the Easy mode (the hard mode usually involves my aforementioned nemesis style) Below are brief descriptions of some of the games (describing the easy mode instructions) that you'll encounter during the demo as well as shortly after:

1-Place gears in a watch correctly (w/in HOP)
2-Click partial images to replicate the spider as shown on the clue.
3-Rotate tokens to complete the path of blood flow.
4-Use directional arrows to repeat the eye movement x3.
5-Select the exact match for each highlighted token.
6-Swap symbols to match the symbols on trace paper.
7-Position the skeleton's limbs & head to match the position shown.
8-Memorize & select the Crossbow card to attack & the Shield card to defend.
9-Choose from 3 paths at the correct time to avoid the sirens.
10-Play poker with skeletons by completing the pattern x3.
11-Use directional arrows to rotate tokens to the correct slots.
12-Swap pyramid sections to stack correctly onto the middle post.
13-Rotate arrow to the correct numbers, the Triangle & Square adjust the # of spaces the arrow moves.

The Collector's Edition version has 14 Wallpapers, 15 Concept Art pictures, 29 Movie Cutscene Videos, 5 Music Soundtracks, 22 re-playable Mini-Games, 18 re-playable Hidden Object Scenes, 33 Achievements to earn, 15 Collectible Monster Pictures,15 Collectible Newspaper Article Interviews, 71 Hidden Film Rolls to buy 15 Boudoir Items, (note: you can disable Icon Alerts for the collectibles in the Custom Settings) 4 Main Chapters +Bonus Chapter (very long chapters, extremely long BC) Enjoy the Halloween Hunt! Show less

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This is a Halloween themed game isn't scary

PostedOctober 23, 2019

kerith90angel

fromNew England, USA

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Fun Factor

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Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

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Storyline

4 / 5

Based on completing chapters 1 and 2. The game crashed on me and lost my profile. I won't be replaying it any time soon to get to the end- maybe next year. I am rating this game on the actual game play and not that I bought it and couldn't finish it this first time.

It took me 2hrs. 15min. to get to Chapter 3, of this 4 chapter game.

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Based on completing chapters 1 and 2. The game crashed on me and lost my profile. I won't be replaying it any time soon to get to the end- maybe next year. I am rating this game on the actual game play and not that I bought it and couldn't finish it this first time.

It took me 2hrs. 15min. to get to Chapter 3, of this 4 chapter game.

If you don't like the color candy-apple green, I doubt this is your game. It is a themed game and not a scary one, and that's fine because I like both types.

~ The one thing I disliked the most was the green scenery. Funny, because green is my favorite color but this is candy apple green and EVERY scene in this game saturated. I prefer when a game changes the time of day or place you play so it isn't so monotonous. This green literally hurts your eyes. What a bummer. I would have rated it higher if it had used a color pallet of primary colors instead.

~ I liked the idea of the monster camera. There is enough character interaction to not feel isolated.
~ I don't normally like cheesy monsters with fake cutesy voices. I almost didn't buy this SE but decided I would due to the fact it was a Halloween game where they would fit the game. I really disliked the VO for the harlequin doll, Harvey. I thought it was way to over the top.

Some things I really liked:
~ The reactive items that move and respond when you click on them. Be sure to click everything in the scene so you don't miss any. When you get to Dana's house in Chapter 2, be sure to click the rug in living room Dana is in. I loved that one.

~I know a lot of reviewers don't like the storybook type of HOS but this game has some great ones. It added depth to the story and characters. This game had a lot of different types of HOS, catering to all of us.

FUNNY HAPPENINGS:
This is where we meet the gray-haired Dana. As a mummy traps her in her living room chair, I decide to snoop around since she literally can't get up. Apparently, Dana has been preparing for her birthday party. I find a few of her birthday gifts and open them (in front of her, yikes, that is cold). This first gift is a skateboard without wheels which I decide will come in handy to fix the broken kitchen door.
Upon entering her kitchen, there is another birthday gift on the table (yep, why not open this one too, I think, she can't have it anyway, not with the mummy holding her captive still).
These are VERY crappy gift-givers in Dana's family. With anticipation, we open the 2nd wrapped bday gift to find only a blow dryer button in the box. (Good thing for me though! I needed that to put on the blow-dryer I've been toting in my pocket 1/2 this level. I use it to melt her refrigerator).
Several tasks later we eventually decide to save Dana. Apparently she didn't mind that I was her only birthday guest and I opened all her gifts because she gives me a fingernail file she has been clasping the entire mummy incident. (Give me that Dana, I've needed that to open the locked living room cabinet which is holding another present which of course I take). ha ha ha ha.....

Domini- you guys are so funny! I needed that laugh. Thank you for that light moment of absurdity. It really did make my day! I laughed with every new task I did just leaving Dana in peril.
I swear this is one of my favorite reasons for playing these games. Show less

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Not so Halloween Crazy

PostedOctober 27, 2021

tigerfinch

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

Storyline

2 / 5

This game looked really good but it was very short not very challenging and had a crazy storyline.....not a fan

I don't recommend this game.

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I wanted to like this game..but the sloppy coding.

PostedOctober 20, 2020

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Puzzle

Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

Storyline

3 / 5

The game is sloppy with a ton of glitches. The story seemed interesting enough but the sloppy coding takes away from it.

I don't recommend this game.

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