Detective Agency: Gray Tie > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

5 / 5

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Good game relaxing

PostedDecember 20, 2022

cyndrap

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I enjoyed this game. Not too hard but still some challenge
For a quiet afternoon, relaxing game play. I liked that the story was okay and not dragged on and on. Click through the story line and it made sense. Good colors and clear objects. Some extras in each scene to find. Mini games are okay.

I recommend this game!

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3 / 5

37 of 49 found this review helpful

IT'S A DECENT HOG

PostedDecember 18, 2022

pennmom36

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

3 / 5

When the CE version was first released, I thought it was going to be a new HOPA by a new developer. Once I started playing, I realized this was just a HOG, but it is more of a hybrid because it's more than just a HOG... yet not quite a HOPA, from the same developer who created the Big Adventure: Trip To Europe series. To be honest, I bought the CE for three bucks from the S-word place a couple of weeks before it was offered here so it was totally worthy of the price. It is a fairly short game and can be completed in 2-3 hours, but it is a higher quality HOG than most out there lately.

What I like the most is that the HO scenes take place in an entire room versus on a table or shelf in the corner of a room. The story is told via text, and there are no voiceovers, but the devs did an excellent job incorporating the "case" before and after each scene without bombarding the player with a ton of dialog boxes on a clickfest that never seems to end.

The HO scenes are played in a Relaxed, untimed Mode with no misclick or hint penalties. The HO's vary with Listed Items, Silhouetted Shapes, Logically Related Pairs, Multiples of the same object, Reversed where you grab objects from the list and place them into the scene logically, and Descriptive Finds where you find objects that match a brief description. Some objects are blended into the scenery better than others but for the most part, they are easy to spot. (sometimes a chill game is just what the gaming doctors ordered)

My only complaint is that several scenes had multiples of the listed item, such as a HAT, or KEY RING, and when you click on a large hat in the forefront of the scene you discover it isn't the correct "hat" which drives me nutz! Fortunately, there is no Misclick penalty! Also, they have slightly "off" items such as a "feeder" instead of a birdhouse, or a "wheel" instead of a tire...and I had to google "aerostat" cuz I had no clue what it was.

Items in "pink" text are hidden in or behind other objects (a magnifying glass appears over these areas) and items listed in "green" are objects that require a task. Each scene has two Zoom Zones that will appear and disappear as the objects shown on the list are found or added.

Each HO scene has a hidden Raccoon (developer's mascot) and a Silhouetted Shape to find for extra points. Once the Silhouetted Shape is located, it can be viewed by clicking the "Extra" tab, oddly, it is considered an Achievement. You will earn a Bronze Star for completing the Hidden Object location, a Silver Star for finding the Silhouetted Shape Extra, and a Gold Star for finding the adorable Raccoon.
After each Hidden Object Scene, (some of which have a secondary HO in a different form, immediately afterward) you will play a mini-game, such as Rotating & Placing Fragments of a picture, Finding Matching Pairs of Footprints (I actually enjoyed this one) Rotating Ring sections, Following a path that lands on each house only once, Swapping & Rotating honeycomb-shaped puzzle pieces, Placing shaped puzzle pieces, Rotate & Place picture frags, and even Spot The Difference scenes.

COLLECTOR'S EDITION EXTRAS:
18 Wallpapers, 20 Music Soundtracks, 8 Bonus Levels, 8 Extra Puzzles, a Hidden Raccoon in every HO scene, and a Silhouetted Shape Achievement in every HO scene. As I said earlier, I purchased the CE version for less than 3 bucks elsewhere's and felt it was worth the entertainment.

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I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

1 of 1 found this review helpful

Interesting game

PostedDecember 19, 2022

suerober

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

This is a fast moving game that is not very challenging but has an interesting story line. The graphics are good and it is usually easy to see items. The big issues are misspelled words and item names used in Europe and not the US. It makes it difficult to know what one is looking for. The mini games are varied and interesting.

I recommend this game!

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3 / 5

Too simplitic

PostedJanuary 18, 2023

gameslvr

fromBoynton Beach, Florida

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Hidden Object

Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

2 / 5

The graphics were pretty good, the storyline and the dialogue was grade school. No drama, no suspense. Pretty boring.

I don't recommend this game.

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2 / 5

7 of 8 found this review helpful

Too Easy, Too Boring

PostedDecember 18, 2022

HeavenBound7729

fromOcala, Florida

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

This is a HOG, no adventure. It is very short, only a couple of hours! Way too short. There's a variety of list styles. The items are all around a room rather than in a group like we normally see. Most items were very easy to find, there's a raccoon and a silhouetted item in each scene that earns extra points. The few mini games were too simple. It wasn't really a bad game. There just wasn't ...Show more

I don't recommend this game.

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