7 Roses - A Darkness Rises

One more hidden object game - click everywhere to find objects, use them at the right spot, solve various puzzles of different kinds. Nice music, quite low 4:3 screen resolution only. Nothing special, but relaxing if you enjoy the genre.

[i]7 Roses - A Darkness Rises[/i] is neither a good game nor a bad game; it’s... average at best. Its problem lies in the fact that despite it being released only a few years ago, it’s extremely old-fashioned, both in concept and in graphics, and especially unsuited for widescreen / newer resolutions (it runs in a 4:3 window at 1020x768 resolution and changing to full screen results in it messing up your whole desktop). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2506160841 Maybe newer games made me lazy, but I really struggled with the lack of a map used for fast travelling. While more recent releases try to restrict the range of puzzles over 2-3 adjacent locations, in [i]7 Roses - A Darkness Rises[/i] there’s a lot of back & forth required between scenes that are at the opposite sides of the map. Additionally, the locations are placed to some extent in a labyrinthine way, so it’s easy to get lost searching for the right path. The lack of a map also means no indicators for the actions available, but on the positive side, a hint system exists. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2506160791 The puzzles haven’t changed much over the years - if you played other HOGs, you’ll be in your element while playing [i]7 Roses - A Darkness Rises[/i] as well. The journal doesn’t focus much on tracking the story or your progress, but instead it serves as a notebook where the main character writes down newly found puzzle clues. These have to be accessed directly from the journal when solving the puzzles, since there’s no indication otherwise on the screen. There are a few cutscenes but they’re unsurprisingly low-quality and they don’t have voice-overs. There are no collectibles either and no bonus chapter. The game features a mix of hidden object scenes with lists of items and fragmented objects - although those belonging to the latter category are encountered more often than the others. Both types are quite easy to solve, requiring only a few steps. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2506160882 Overall, it’s a passable game that succeeds in entertaining you only mildly for around 2h. It works fine, it plays without issues but it’s simply very outdated for this modern age. I’d say it’s worth picking up with a discount, if you’re a HOG collector, but otherwise there are plenty of other games in the same price range that are worth your attention more than [i]7 Roses - A Darkness Rises[/i]. [quote]More reviews on the [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/11354094]Lilly's Corner Curator page[/url][/quote]

A very mediocre game. The scenery drawings are very low-resolution and nice enough, but the characters are horribly rendered and animated. The story is superficial and dumb. There is no voice acting and the English grammar is sometimes off. The puzzles, if you can call them that, are trivially easy. The hidden-object scenes involve objects that are "hidden" by making them very, very small or behind other objects, which is annoying and not very satisfying to solve. Also, there are bugs. One puzzle refused to "solve" for me, even though it was clearly solved. I kept trying again and again until it let me go through. Also, the game will not run in fullscreen on a 4K monitor unless you explicitly change the settings on the executable. I cannot recommend this game when there are so many better games in this genre.

Short, basic HOPA game with limited features (no map, no collectibles, no achievements). The game is not designed for widescreen, so graphics are lower resolution unless you play in the smaller window option. There is no voice acting. Music is acceptable, but would be repetitive if left playing for too long. I'm giving this game a very tentative thumbs up because there are some interesting puzzles. Also, while the game and the HOPA scenes are basic, they are reasonably enjoyable. This is not a great game, but it has some charm, as well as variety for both puzzles and HO scenes. [b]Overall:[/b] Buy on sale, and understand that you're getting a short game that has an older look and feel to it. On the bright side, the mouse controls work smoothly, and I found no bugs. Side-note: This might be a good game to play with kids, or for those who want very casual, somewhat cinematic gameplay (but remember, no voice acting).

Ne cherchez pas un grand jeu pour 7 roses - A Darkness Rises car il s'agit d'un jeu moyen. Je passerai sur l'histoire qui est assez classique de la jeune femme dont la mère est morte depuis bien longtemps et qui doit sauver l'Arbre de Vie pour sauver le monde... plus que basique. Il s'agit d'un hiden avec quelques SOC et quelques puzzles, les uns comme les autres sont plus que faciles et ne comportent pas de difficultés dans le gameplay. En fait ce jeu, à vrai dire, n'est ni mauvais, ni bon. Tout comme les graphismes, on a un mélange de textures, séquences en 3D animés d'un temps passé (et dépassé) qui donnent des têtes aux personnages un regard de serial killer et dessin. Le tout n'est pas moche en soit mais jouer en plein écran sur un jeu qui as une résolution assez faible le rend un peu moche. Il vaut mieux privilégier le 1024x768... au dessus c'est pas terrible question rendu... Si les musiques ne sont pas mémorables, elles restent agréables à l'écoute et il n'y a guère que le manque de doublage pour les voix qui m'a gêné le plus... Il y a peu de bruitage et sans les voix, tout cela fait bien vide... il faut voir savoir également qu'il s'agit là d'un jeu très, très court... comptez moins de deux heures pour le faire en sachant qu'il n'y a rien de plus que l'histoire principale (pas de collection, pas de chapitre bonus,...). Au final, c'est un jeu agréable à faire mais sans réel charme aussi bien dans sa composition que dans sa narration... Vous voilà prévenu...

This is a hidden object game. I do love my hidden object games and I think that is why this game did not do it for me. I have played a lot better hidden object games with better graphics, better puzzles and a better story. This is not the worst hidden object game, but for the year it was released as well as the price, I am looking for something a lot more than this.

Der erste Eindruck von 7 Roses ist eher negativ. Die Grafik ist gruselig altbacken und insbesondere die Animationen lassen einen 2020 richtiggehend erschaudern. Und natürlich ist auch das Gameplay genretypisch sehr eintönig: Dialoge durchklicken und Suchrätsel lösen. Been there, done that. Also ein einfaches Nein? Tatsächlich hat mich 7 Roses positiv überrascht. Ja, die Grafik wird nicht besser und die Story ist auch nicht aus der Feder eines J.R.R. Tolkien. Aber sie ist doch genügend interessant, um in den nicht ganz 2 Stunden Spielzeit nicht zu nerven oder für völliges Fremdschämen zu sorgen, wie es bei dieser Art von Spiel ja noch immer wieder mal ist. Und dann sind da noch die Rätsel. Ja klar gibt es die klassischen Wimmelbilder, aber daneben gibt es noch einige kleine weitere Rätselchen, die das Ganze zu einem erstaunlich runden Ganzen machen. Denn dadurch, dass 7 Roses nicht alleine aus Wimmelbildern besteht, entsteht eine unglaublich angenehme Gameplayabwechslung, die dann erstaunlich viel Spass macht und kurzweilig sehr gut unterhält. Fazit: Wer über die altbackene Grafik hinwegsehen kann, bekommt hier ein äusserst solides Wimmelbildspiel, das durch die Ergänzung mit weiteren kleinen Rätselmechaniken erstaunlich viel Spass macht.

I bought this game in a bundle so I got it much cheaper than even the sale. (for less than 3$) but it still feels like a waste. Its not a bad game in concept, music or art and quite enjoyable in those senses. I wanted to like this game Charming cute music, charming old looking graphics, nice storyline. I didn't mind the lack of voice acting. But as it is I cannot recommend it for three reasons 1. theres no sizes for newer monitors, no 1920 x 1080 and 2. theres some game breaking bugs which made me have to retry the fishing rod spot and a few others numerous times before it worked restarting from the beginning over and over again. On top of that playing in full screen makes it so half the interactions simply do not work even if you change from fullscreen to windowed, its like it corrupts your profile to be in fullscreen 3. The hint button recharges too slow and is used up when you use it to find what area you are meant to be in unlike other games where its only used up if you use it in a puzzle or to find an item, it makes it frustrating when you get lost and stuck. This is such an obscure game that finding any help online for bugs is impossible, finding guides when you get stuck is even worse. If the bugs were fixed I'd be able to recommend it then but as it is this game is unplayable (It will take you numerous profiles and restarts to get anywhere). Every last second on record has been me struggling with infuriating bugs that break the game over and over and over again.

- There were some hidden objects; for example, "key" which was super tiny and couldn't be seen by bare eyes. - The puzzles are so easy. - These ugly and funny-looking characters are disappointingly lacking in motivation, constantly ordering me to do things for them while they're doing nothing, like I'm some kind of servant to them. - I played it in windowed mode while using the Magnifier program since it's 1020x768 resolution, so it was bearable, but the full screen was so awful. + The one positive thing about this game is that some of the background images are beautiful.

7 Roses - A Darkness Rises is a mobile-app tier hidden object puzzle game from HH-Games, who normally make a living charging money for free iPhone Match-3 games that they dump on Steam as cash grabs. Gameplay is your standard hidden object game as you tap your iPhone screen through various generic fantasy pictures and puzzles. Like an Artifex Mundi mobile app, but worse. While I couldn't find 7 Roses - A Darkness Rises on the mobile phone app stores, it has all the qualities of a mobile app, and as far as PC ports go, it's woeful, with locked resolution, static 2D imagery and shallow, mobile phone tier gameplay. There's also no widescreen support and the game displays in woefully poor resolution, probably 800x600 or something... unacceptable for a game on Steam in 2020, when HH Games dumped this here. They're charging a ludicrous $6 USD for this, and considering you can play as many hidden object puzzles as you want free on the web and on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend this to PC gamers. It's just a cash grab.