Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came

This is a simple hidden object/puzzle game with a post-modern fantasy theme. The Engrish translation here is a brutal battleground where the only way to win is not to play. When you first load this up you might think you've lucked onto an Artifex Mundi mobile ported PC gamer gouge (they charge heaps of money for HOGs on Steam that they give away free to mobile). But not so, it's worse. Bad puzzles, low res assets, and a $5 USD price tag.. it's just bad. There's better HOGs for less, I can't recommend this bad translation.

中规中矩的点击解谜游戏咯，中间卡住有提示，顺利通关

Nice adventure puzzle game.

Beyond the Invisible | 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑 1.5/5 In a nutshell, Beyond the Invisible is an extremely mediocre adventure game. It advertises itself as a HOG but disappointingly these are rare within its short 2-3 hours runtime. Most of which you'll spend fumbling around being baffled at the solutions it requires to its many puzzles. I know you shouldn't question the logic in these type of games but this one really pushes the envelope. This isn't helped by its story which is all over the place too. Why is a detective working with the cast of LOTR? Also of note is the English translation which is some of the worst I've seen. I appreciate its probably not the dev teams native language but any English speaker proof reading the text would have caught the simplest of bad grammar and spelling mistakes on show here. Overall, give this one a miss. There's plenty of better HOG games available.

[code]For other game reviews, please [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40640212/]follow us at What The Game?[/url][/code] Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came is a casual hidden object game themed as a detective investigating strange happenings in a city. The story has a bit of Alan Wake in it mixed with a random Netflix style show with elves and portals to fantasy worlds. BtI:DC features three modes; the typical beginner, intermediate, and advanced modes. These modes control how quickly the player can get a hint or completely skip a puzzle. The only control for the game is the mouse, it is all point and click. BtI:DC appears to be set in about 1980, the vehicles and other objects point to that era. The location looks like a European style town, but the vehicles and a few characters, like the sheriff, don't fit in that theme. The artwork is a bit rough, ranging from photorealistic to hand drawn; some scenes have obviously photoshopped images cropped in. There is quite a bit of voice-over work and the voices all sound American, but they were reading a script that obviously didn't make sense to some of them as some of the subtitles don't match what is actually said. Most of what is said sounds like an American speaking broken English. As far as the puzzling goes, these are very typical: Click all over the screen to find areas of interest, find items in one area, then return and clear or open a location in another area. There are also some small logic puzzles, match pairs, and finding a list of objects in a scene. The "find a list in a scene" puzzles all give some needed item when cleared. The logic puzzles usually open or clear the way for something to reveal a needed object. Some of the logic used in the game is pretty convoluted, for example, there are multiple screw removals and sometimes a screwdriver is needed, other times a coin is used. Some items require a real stretch of the imagination to be used in this game. This is a game for players that enjoy puzzles, even if "nobody would ever think of that" doesn't bother the player. It doesn't seem possible that anyone could play through the first time without ever using a hint and solve it. Some objects found will immediately become clear what to do with them, others never make any sense, even when used. [b]Recommended on sale for players that enjoy hidden object games, otherwise skip it.[/b]

You must play through three times to complete the difficulty achievements - it should be once if you play on the highest difficulty. You must delete your profile (and create an new one) before playing it again on a different difficulty - that is stupid, You must play the bonus game too (a little over halfway through anyway) to unlock the Careful Seeker III achievement. Fairly short for a HOG. The story is ok; the art is good. There are very few HOPs and mini-games.

Not my typical game, But was asked to review this... I read though some of the other reviews, and feel some of them may be a bit harsh... and here is why... The graphics in game a very well done, and the animations although cartoony are pleasant, the voice overs are pleasant to listen to... There are numerous typo's and obvious translation errors, but the same can be said for some of the big games as well, so there is nothing here that can't be overlooked... Now you have the puzzles and story... The story so far (I have not finished yet) is interesting, and keeps me coming back, I can't say that for other games of this style. Although the story is simple, its told in a way that keeps you involved. The puzzles sometimes can be confusing, and where to find certain items (Spoiler: Why would someone lock a dish of dog food in a display case? and then hid the key for the case in a safe), but I get it its a game and to add a little complexity some things are kinda of odd... Overall I give this game a 7 out of 10 Doubloons and would recommend this for casual and beginner gamers. Hardcore gamers and hardcore puzzlers would get bored very quickly

I do enjoy HOGs and I find them quite relaxing. Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came (I'm not sure why they all have these nonsense compound titles) is no exception with a pleasant supernatural plot, a nice atmosphere, and mildly engaging puzzles that will keep your mind sharp without punishing you. However there is only about 5 actual hidden object scenes in the whole game (including the bonus chapter) so might find it a teeny bit disappointing in this regard. There are no trading cards included but there are 15 trophies and even if you finish the game on hardest difficulty the lesser achievements are not stacked (which is very annoying) so you'll have to play through it all over again to win them. I was happy at 12/15 and left it at that. There's quite a lot of spelling mistakes too, so I'm assuming it was translated into English was developed by a non-Anglo team.

There were maybe three interesting and fun puzzles to solve here, the rest is a slog. The voice acting is actually really good, but the english translations they had to read are just embarrasing and to be honest after an hour or so it becomes agrivating to hear speech butchered like that. Worst offence of all is that at the very end of the game.. seriously like second to last screen.. there is puzzle where you have to arrange paintings in a certain order but the game freaking bugged out on me and even though I have the pictures in the right order (looked it up) it won't go through as solved. I play on hardest difficulty in these games which means no skips which means that's it.. can't finish now. I'd have to start over on lower difficulty and yeah... no thanks. I watched the ending on youtube so at least I got that. Anyway, this is a solid pass from me, not even worth it for free to be honest.. there's just too many annoyances to recommend pushing through this thing even for free.

Barely any puzzles, some of the solutions for 'furthering the story' are downright silly (I figured them out but from a logical point it's... just dumb and makes you shake your head like wtf). The story was as much as you'd expect from a hidden find game, so nothing surprising there; anddddd like others have mentioned there's a barely any hidden find puzzles in this or puzzles at all. I couldn't get the tutorial achievement to even pop up too, gave it multiple tries and just gave up. tldr; Not very puzzley, hidden find like, or anything worth while. Buy another game, there are better ones.