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5 / 5

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What an innovative game. Best in a LOONG time.

PostedJanuary 3, 2019

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Extremely well put-together. Feels like you actually are in the house. The mini-games, the hog scenes. By far the best game in a long-long time. The atmosphere is thick, and you actually feel like you're in a haunted house. Kudos to Eipix for reinventing the casual game genre. A must-buy for all who like a different kind of casual game, that simply oozes with atmosphere.

I recommend this game!

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Great New Horror!

PostedJanuary 3, 2019

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I'm amazed at how these horror games get better and better!
This one starts out with live actors, which I'm partial to. I think it's so cool when real people are used in a video sequence, and that's what the beginning includes.
The whole ambiance strongly supports the horror genre, including bleak rooms that are falling apart, little bugs crawling up the walls, and loads of detail. You KNOW the ...Show more

I'm amazed at how these horror games get better and better!
This one starts out with live actors, which I'm partial to. I think it's so cool when real people are used in a video sequence, and that's what the beginning includes.
The whole ambiance strongly supports the horror genre, including bleak rooms that are falling apart, little bugs crawling up the walls, and loads of detail. You KNOW the main characters are in trouble once you see the inside of the house!
There are some jump scares and some scary but not jumpy parts. There's a strong creep factor! Some of the creepiness is reminiscent of horror films as well as the ultimate horror HOP games, True Fear.
There are a nice amount of HOPs, sometimes HOPs within HOPs, puzzles that aren't overly easy, and the collectibles (moths, cassettes, morphs) are also not easy to find. The game presents good challenges without being frustratingly difficult.
I really enjoyed this game—it's an easy one to binge play! Show less

I recommend this game!

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5 / 5

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WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF HORRORS

PostedJanuary 11, 2019

charlene_lane

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

REVIEW OF COMPLETED GAME AND BONUS

What a fabulous and truly creepy game with lots of twists and turns. In the main game you play both Mark and Martha Spencer and in the bonus you play Cassie Oswald, one of the crew from Paranormal Hour. There is:

* Easy, Medium, Hard and Custom modes;
* Voiceovers (with dialogue);
* Interactive map;
* Journal;
* 13 Achievements (5 with 3 stars);
* 14 replayable ...Show more

REVIEW OF COMPLETED GAME AND BONUS

What a fabulous and truly creepy game with lots of twists and turns. In the main game you play both Mark and Martha Spencer and in the bonus you play Cassie Oswald, one of the crew from Paranormal Hour. There is:

* Easy, Medium, Hard and Custom modes;
* Voiceovers (with dialogue);
* Interactive map;
* Journal;
* 13 Achievements (5 with 3 stars);
* 14 replayable HOPs and 20 replayable mini-games;
* Souvinor room;
* Find 34 moths, 10 cassette tapes and 16 morphs throughout game and bonus.

The graphics are very good - there isn't a huge amount of colour, but it is a dark and spooky house. Items you need are easy to see and grab. Sound is good and the music is orchestral and quite creepy.

The hidden object games are mainly interactive straightforward, silhouette, finding pairs and symbols. Each HOP only takes a few minutes to do as items are clear to see.

There are a good range of mini-games to play and I enjoyed them all - each range from easy to medium.

There are 34 moths, 10 cassette tapes and 16 morphs to find throughout the game and bonus. Just check the icon at the bottom of your screen whether that there is a morph to find in that particular screen. If you don't feel like finding these during the game or you miss any, then you can do them all afterwards.

All up the game, bonus and extras took me about 7 hours, not skipping or hinting anything. I really enjoyed the game and the bonus ending was totally unexpected.

Overall, a terrific game and definitely worth putting in your collection. I shall never sing Insy Winsy Spider to a child again without thinking of this game - positively demonic and scary.

Happy playing fishies - this is a gem. Well done to the devs and I look forward to the next instalment. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Congrats Eipix!

PostedJanuary 5, 2019

QueenDK

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Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Arcade & Action, Brain Teaser, Hidden Object, Large File, Marble Popper, Match 3, Puzzle

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

It's been a long time since I've been captured by a game like this one. The game simply has it all: mystery, good storyline, excellent mini-games, HOPs, high quality graphics and something I always seem to miss in most of the games - a reason as to why I am playing this particular game - curiossity! What happens next - good job - more of the same please!

I recommend this game!

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5 / 5

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Best game I've played in a long time!

PostedJanuary 6, 2019

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I love this game! Its one of the only times a "creepy" game has really left me with the creeps lol. Not to mention one of the few games I've finished in two days (would have finished in one sitting but my eyes get tired). I actually couldn't wait to play again. Hope to see more games like this soon!

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5 / 5

20 of 24 found this review helpful

excellent game

PostedJanuary 5, 2019

crusades

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Well done Eipix.. this is an excellent game. Great gameplay, good storyline, puzzles are different and fun to play and the HOPS are fantastic and also different.
This is also a long game. I have been playing for some time and am only half way through. There are morphs and moths to find. I cannot praise it enough.
Do try it.

I recommend this game!

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RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH SOME MUCH-NEEDED RENNOVATION BY EIPIX

PostedJanuary 3, 2019

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fromThis house is now featured on a new reality show - “Paranormal Fixer Upper,” a new show dedicated to renovating haunted houses by removing rotten lumber, old appliances, demented inhabitants and hard-to-remove ghosts.

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

REVIEW BASED UPON THE ENTIRE GAME
4 Chapters Plus a Bonus Chapter – Strategy Guide: 44 Pages

OVERVIEW: Welcome to The Old Curiosity Shop, a shop dedicated to the sale of peculiar items with strange tales attached! As a new customer, you receive a key to open a box, a box containing an old doorknob. This doorknob opens a door – a portal unfolding a story of the newlywed couple, Mark and Martha ...Show more

REVIEW BASED UPON THE ENTIRE GAME
4 Chapters Plus a Bonus Chapter – Strategy Guide: 44 Pages

OVERVIEW: Welcome to The Old Curiosity Shop, a shop dedicated to the sale of peculiar items with strange tales attached! As a new customer, you receive a key to open a box, a box containing an old doorknob. This doorknob opens a door – a portal unfolding a story of the newlywed couple, Mark and Martha Spencer, and their entrance into a world of danger. Martha, a real estate agent, found this house, a fixer-upper with a reputation for being haunted. Mark, a novelist of horror stories, saw this as an opportunity for this crumbling structure to provide some much-needed inspiration to cure his writer’s block. The history of this ramshackle house will come to life to haunt this couple. Now relive this tale. Just remember as you play this game - don’t go down in the basemen! There is always something in the basement!

OPINION: This is a great first game from a new series from EIPIX. The story is well-written and for me, it is more of a mystery than a horror game. I found the dark graphics added to the suspense of the game. It is “lights out” for many of the scenes. Most of the game is set in some room within this house. Nevertheless, I found some parts of the game rather snail-paced. There are sections which fall flat due to lack of activities. The back-and-forth motion searching for inventory items could have been replaced with a few more puzzles or HOP scenes. You play a tag team couple, alternating roles with each new chapter. A couple of times in the game, you must make choices between two paths. If you choose the incorrect one, you will be sent back to the curio shop; however, you will not have to restart the game. Although I do not feel this is one of this developer’s best games, for me, this game is a much-needed improvement from some of their recent ones. Although I would normally give this game four (4) stars, I awarded an extra star for improvement.

MECHANICS: There are four (4) levels of play including a customized version. There are thirteen (13) achievements. Collect sixteen (16) morphing objects), thirty-four (34) moths and ten (10) cassettes. At the end you will collect sixteen (16) souvenirs. To collect the souvenirs, you must collect all the moths and get a number illustrated by the moths to unlock the puzzle. I had a hard time reading the number. For me, it was blurry. The souvenirs are well- hidden, and you will need to uncover items to locate them. There are eight (8) wallpapers along with concept art and music selections and video sequences. You can replay fourteen (14) HOP scenes and twenty (20) puzzles.

BONUS CHAPTER: It is a prequel. Return to the house and follow the paranormal crew from the hit reality show “Paranormal Hour” who disappeared while shooting a segment within the house. Discover what happened to them within this “haunted” house. Most of the scenes are the same as within the main game. You continue to collect the same collectibles as in the main game. There are four (4) mini-games and four (4) HOP scenes within this chapter. To me, what makes this chapter is the ending! You will not want to miss this surprise ending!

HOP SCENES: There are twenty (20) HOP scenes within the game. I found them well-constructed with a variety of different styles. Most of the scenes are silhouette or lists of items. There is one replacement scene and some of the scenes are multiple-step. There are some creative backgrounds for the scenes which include searching for items on mannequins, cobwebs, and even scratched up doors.

ITSY, BITSY CREEPY SPIDER! There is one creatively designed storybook scene. You listen to the nursery rhyme, “Itsy, Bitsy Spider” while searching or highlighted items in a storybook scene – all spoken in a creepy, demonic-sounding voice. Then, enjoy a revised version of this nursery rhyme while searching for more of those highlighted items. For me, this is the best HOP scene within the game.

MINI-GAMES: There are twenty-nine (29) mini-games within the game. I found them creatively designed and with most of easy or middle difficulty. There are quite a few mathematical puzzles. Surprisingly there are also quite a few physical puzzles in which you must climb up a wall, keep your balance, hit a bullseye, or keep a marker within a circle. I feel there are too many of these within this game.

SPOILERS: HERE ARE SOME OF THE MINI-GAMES AFTER THE DEMO:

A. Connection puzzle. Connect the dots on a sheet of paper without crossing over the drawings upon the paper. You may cross over lines already drawn.
B. Mathematical puzzle. On a series of five (5) tubes, using up-and-down arrows, combine three numbers at the sides of the tubes, either adding or subtracting them, so they total the number next to an orange line on each tube.
C. Maze puzzle. Using arrows, navigate through ventilation tunnels. You are completely in the dark and the exit is not designated. You must locate it on your own.
D. 1000 Rooms puzzle. Move a doll by using arrows to double doors within a dollhouse. The doll and the rooms move and there are ladders to climb to move up to the next level. 2X
E. Tangram puzzle. A variation of this puzzle. Place pieces of attic junk into position so that all pieces fit and there are no gaps between the spaces.
BONUS CHAPTER
F. Moving tiles puzzle. Move four colored disks in three columns from the left column to the right column so the disks are in the proper colored slots. Use the middle column to help move the disks. Disks cannot move around other disks
G. Connection puzzle. On a net, connect each thread with its opposite side so that the threads intersect in the middle of the net.
H. Sequence puzzle. Bar removal puzzle. Remove bars in sequential order to open an entrance to a cave Show less

I recommend this game!

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Haunted?! Don't Hang Around! Hightail It Out Of There!

PostedJanuary 3, 2019

HeavenBound7729

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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4 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Just played the demo and it started out with an all-animated scene in an antique shop. Animated would be disappointing for a haunted house story. But then it changed to realistic when Mark and Martha entered the dilapidated old house they plan to flip. Good luck with that idea, I say!

The demo was busy with tasks, encountering keyless locks, looking for missing clock hands, reading old news ...Show more

Just played the demo and it started out with an all-animated scene in an antique shop. Animated would be disappointing for a haunted house story. But then it changed to realistic when Mark and Martha entered the dilapidated old house they plan to flip. Good luck with that idea, I say!

The demo was busy with tasks, encountering keyless locks, looking for missing clock hands, reading old news material, etc. But it all moved along at a good pace. Inventory filled up quickly and the items were used soon enough.

The graphics were good, felt not as clean & sharp as normally seen from Eipix. The human characters were rendered pretty well, but the permanent resident "monster" seemed cartoonish to me. Its few very short appearances were always shadowed. Maybe in the main game, he will actually be scary. The voices were excellent, IMO, very natural and expressive. The monster only grunted!

The puzzles were quite unique to me, I loved the moving maze. The HOPs were challenging. The magazine HOP was difficult due to very small items and quite clever as well. The map was plain and simple but got me quickly to my next room, the hint button serves the same purpose. A good, easy-to-understand journal, everything orderly for easy referral.

There are little tabs by the hint button to keep track of your collectibles which are 34 moths, 16 disguised morphing objects, 16 cassette tapes. Not sure if there are more. I was more interested in the actual game. But the few that I did find were well hidden.

I loved the storyline, I've always been intrigued by haunted houses. But you won't catch me going into one for a close up look! This particular house had a very creepy atmosphere and there were a few unnerving events faced by our house flippers. Why the locked doors, who or what is in the walls, why have so many people in or near the house, in the past, disappeared? What happened to the Paranormal Investigators in the beginning of the story? You will see a clue to that in the demo. What is the background on the the original owners, Mr and Mrs Grave? What dark, dangerous secrets will surface? If only houses could talk!

I do hope this doesn't turn out to be a lame story with a goofy ending, like in so many other games that arrive in abundance sometimes. But because of the game theme, I will purchase it. The demo was entertaining and gave me no reason to think it will be a disappointment. Anxious to find out what happened in this dreary, frightening house so many years ago.

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I recommend this game!

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Eipix is BACK on TOP !!

PostedJanuary 10, 2019

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fromCincinnati, OH

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I haven't been this impressed with an Eipix game since the first Final Cut game. The amount of work.. the creativity.. the story.. the FABULOUS hidden objects. The artwork is so appropriately dark and grimy for this telling of a myth which you act out as being told by the antiques dealer. (whose memory sometimes isn't so good) This is one of those games I made myself play in "spurts" because I ...Show more

I haven't been this impressed with an Eipix game since the first Final Cut game. The amount of work.. the creativity.. the story.. the FABULOUS hidden objects. The artwork is so appropriately dark and grimy for this telling of a myth which you act out as being told by the antiques dealer. (whose memory sometimes isn't so good) This is one of those games I made myself play in "spurts" because I didn't want it to end.
PLEASE, Eipix..more of this dreadful series!!!!! Take your time and give it the care you have given this one. Show less

I recommend this game!

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New Series about Urban Myths

PostedFebruary 3, 2019

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I found this game clever. More than once it had me connect the clues. It drove me nuts that the Souvenirs were locked even after I finished the bonus chapter. Well, digging around paid off I figured it out. The souvenirs are always connected to the collectibles. You always have to finish the collectibles first. This is a clue.

You can go back and retrieve any of the collectibles you missed. All ...Show more

I found this game clever. More than once it had me connect the clues. It drove me nuts that the Souvenirs were locked even after I finished the bonus chapter. Well, digging around paid off I figured it out. The souvenirs are always connected to the collectibles. You always have to finish the collectibles first. This is a clue.

You can go back and retrieve any of the collectibles you missed. All of the collectibles. The 10 cassette tapes that you can play and all of them are different. The 16 morphs. The 34 moths.

This game is dark in the story and in the scenes. It lacks color. The couple Martha and Mark Spencer do switch off in the game. The bonus chapter is about the Paranormal hour team.

Replay 14 hops, 20 mini-games, 9 video, 7 music.
8 wallpaper, 4 artwork and 16 souvenirs.

My favorite hops were the tea set and the scribbles. I liked most of the mini-games. I had to turn off all but the voices at most places because of the shrilly sounds hurt my ears. That isn't new from this maker. Show less

I recommend this game!

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