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This Halloween, Elephant Games needs your skills as a Medium in the latest chilling addition to the Halloween Stories series!

When your old friend receives a mysterious letter pleading for help, it will take all of your skills as a Medium to tackle this new otherworldly case. Someone’s being held against their will in the abandoned Adamini castle, but you quickly find their captor is no mere mortal. An ancient spirit is claiming souls for its sinister plans, and now that you’ve arrived, it’s marked you as its own! In a race against the clock, can you escape the castle and foil the Dark Keeper’s plot before it’s too late? Find out in this spine-tingling Hidden-Object Puzzle adventure!

Thwart an ancient spirit!
A journey deep below a spooky castle!
Brain-teasing puzzles and mini-games!
Spine-tingling hidden-object scenes!
For additional features, check out the Collector's Edition

Game System Requirements

OS: Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10

CPU: 2.5 GHz

RAM: 1024 MB

DirectX: 9

Hard Drive: 703 MB

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Halloween Stories: Mark on the Bone

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The Spirit of Halloween!

PostedOctober 9, 2024

JulzCat

fromCharlotte, NC

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4 / 5

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5 / 5

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4 / 5

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4 / 5

A Halloween spirit is wreaking havoc on a spooky castle! Use your mystic powers and release the lost souls!

I enjoyed this one and because of that, I finished it fairly quickly. The graphics, as always, were gorgeous, and the puzzles were just challenging enough for me. I especially loved making the potion recipe!

I recommend this game!

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I LOVE HALLOWEEN & THIS GAME HIT THE MARK FOR ME!

PostedNovember 4, 2022

pennmom36

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

3 / 5

Completed Game in approximately 4 hours
(including completion of all mini-games & CE Bonus Chapter)
18 Main Game Scene Locations +6 Bonus Chapter
Difficulty Range: Beginner-Intermediate

I may be the odd man out here, but actually think this is a decent game. I wasn't bored, I found the tasks to be less mundane than most Elephant Games because I wasn't constantly being tasked with placing a gazillion emblems and motifs. I've always loved the graphics and atmospheres this developer creates so naturally I have no complaints there. The only reason I'm not 5-staring this game is that the storyline was hard to keep up with at times; it seems fragmented and rely's on the player to fill in too many missing blanks to get into the plot, but maybe that was just my take?

HELPER/GADGETS:
There are NO gadgets or Helpers however, for some reason, as a Mystic you have a secret revealing potion that can also reveal your "Pet Spirit" in a mirror. Why? This made the game seem less credible! Again, it's hard to understand the plot when you are supposed to be a Cold-Case-solving Mystic who delves into the supernatural...a game with a dark, creepy, mystical vibe, a fairly believable scenario until I summoned a pet monster in my handy-dandy mirror! Thankfully, my pet doesn't require interactions and I'm pretty sure they threw this feature in to make it less intense (evil-demon-wise)

MORPHING OBJECTS/COLLECTIBLES: (CE version only)
There are 24 Zoom Zone Puzzle Fragments that allow you to assemble 2 different Mosaic-type Puzzles in the Puzzle Room. There are 12 Collectible Items to adorn your Haunted Castle, each item has a brief description as well. These CE extras are certainly unimpressive! Most of you know that I fell in love with Elephant Games when I first started playing HOPAs. Once I discovered my first Morphing Object while playing Mystery Trackers: The Void, I became obsessed with them and searched high & low to find games that had morphing objects. I soon realized that other than the original Dark Parables games, this developer had the best Morphs, hands-down! The objects morphed slowly and were never obvious because they changed into something similar that complimented the scene's theme, such as a single window pane, a small area of a painting, or a weather vane.

Eventually, this developer started getting lazy and the once amazing Morphs stuck out like a sore thumb because they became huge in size, morphed at a break-neck pace, and turned into out-of-place objects like a white baseball, the size of a baby elephant, sitting in the middle of the emerald-green lawn of an ancient haunted mansion! Morphs simply became "clickables" not collectibles and it was no longer a challenge and certainly wasn't something to look forward to like they were in previous games.

HOPA Fans noticed the difference and we begged for the return of quality Morphs, a feature that made us loyal Elephant Games fans in the first place! Instead of making improvements to this once beloved feature, they simply abandoned Morphs altogether! Nothing says "I don't care about you" better than removing a beloved feature, right? Show us you really do care about your fans, show us you care about the quality that once was. Bring back Morphs with the same quality and passion that inspired us to seek out your games in the past to get our HOPA Morphing Object fix!

HIDDEN OBJECT SCENES:
The Hidden Object Scenes are varied and what I am noticing from this developer in the last few games, is a marked improvement. The objects are smaller and less obvious which shows they are clearly making an attempt to blend the objects into the scenery by choosing objects that will blend into the scene rather than stick out like a sore thumb. In the past I could literally find 95% of the objects without even looking at the list, they were that obvious...but now I'm having to actually "search" versus having a free for all clickfest! (why can't they apply this method to the Morphing Object scenario?) There are Listed Item Finds, Silhouetted Shape Finds, Symbols or Matching Symbols, Find & Replace Scenes, Multiples or Pairs (such as finding specific colored handprints), and Keywords in Sentence Finds as well as a handful of smaller Zoom Zone HO's. There are no alternate games available in lieu of the HOs.
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MINI-GAMES/PUZZLES:
I've always been a fan of this developer's style of puzzles which tend to be mechanical, or require thinking several steps ahead to solve. This time, many of the puzzles are actually just that...variations of jigsaws, and surprisingly, some were a tad challenging like when you had to recreate a picture by rotating octagonal-shaped pieces on a honeycomb grid! For the most part, they did a good job putting twists on standard do-over games to make them Halloween-themed or at least character-related, but they could have been more challenging like the mechanical-style puzzles are.

BONUS CHAPTER: (Collector's Edition version only)
The town is celebrating Adamini Castle's newest resident. Theresa's inheritance of a giant castle pales in comparison to what lies ahead, a deceiving Fiancee with ulterior motives! Turns out her "dearly beloved" was only interested in resurrecting the "not so beloved" Evil Castle Spirit so she seeks the help of her mystic grandmother, Agatha. There are 6 additional Mini-Games and 6 Hidden Object Scenes, and you will continue your search for the remaining 3 Haunted items and 6 Zoom Zone Puzzle Fragments which allow you to complete the final puzzle in the Puzzle Room. After completing the Bonus Chapter the Secret Room becomes available which allows you to search for any missing collectibles. The Archives Room becomes available as well, allowing you to replay 14 Hidden Object Scenes and 13 Mini-Games.

COLLECTOR'S EDITION EXTRAS:
7 Wallpapers, ZERO video movie sequences, 2 Screensavers, 4 Music Soundtracks, 21 Achievements, 12 Collectible Haunted Castle Items (with descriptions) 24 Zoom Zone Jigsaw Puzzle Fragments to assemble 2 Jigsaws, Archives to replay 13 Mini-Games & 14 Hidden Object Scenes, a Secret Room which allows you to return to the scenes to search for missed collectibles, 3 Main Chapters +Bonus Chapter, and a Built-In Strategy Guide.

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I recommend this game!

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Not What I Expected

PostedNovember 4, 2022

HeavenBound7729

fromOcala, Florida

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2 / 5

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4 / 5

Pennmom made a good point about the message conveyed when favorite features are removed. It also damages the quality and level of fun we expect to find with our reliable devs. I rated the CE with 2 stars due to this and because it was more about spirits hanging out in mirrors and less about Halloween. The story, imo, was flimsy and somewhat hard to follow.

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It was a quiet game but I think it had a very demonic feel to it. I did not care for the creepy spirits! I enjoyed the HOPs and puzzles however they were pretty easy, nothing special. Little materialized to indicate anything of what I expected, based upon the synopsis and 5-star reviews so I was disappointed. The tasks weren't too bad, graphics were very good but a little dark, scenes were sparse of Halloween sights, lots of back and forth.

Others believe it was a great game and found it spooky and challenging with a good story. I didn't find that at all but that doesn't mean it is a bad game. It just wasn't my idea of fun Halloween entertainment. The SE is probably the better choice since the CE has minimal extra content. Show less

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Well it has good graphics but ----

PostedNovember 4, 2022

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2 / 5

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5 / 5

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2 / 5

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2 / 5

I just could not get into this game. It is sort of strange, slow, and not interesting. I felt like it was more busy work than playing a fun game of any kind. I could not even finish the demo. Not a game for me.

I don't recommend this game.

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2 / 5

Weird and boring

PostedOctober 12, 2024

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Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

2 / 5

Not enough hidden object puzzles in this one. A lot of very boring 'find task, find object for task in the same area, put the object there' kind of linear gameplay. Plot is not explained or set up very well

I don't recommend this game.

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