Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug Collector's Edition

I really like Dark Tales stories! This was as good at the other ones! - Beautiful graphics and art work! - Good interesting story - Great voice acting - Various well constructed mini games and HO scenes Sad that many Big Fish games don't have Achievements, Cards or Collectables. This game I used to play offline at my summer lake house, relaxing! I recommend it!

Great game, not too challenging, a great plot and excellent artwork. This game is based off of Edgar Allan Poe's Gold Bug, though it does take its liberties, understandable since the original story is pretty short. LeGrand is a character in the original story; there is a Newfoundland dog in the original story; in the original story, the protaganist finds Captain Kidd's treasure buried under a tree with the help of an encrypted parchment - the message of which is the exact same as the one in the game. There is where the similarities end. The creator of this game took great liberties to thicken the plot of this rather plain story, and we are much obliged to him (or her) for that. Also, Poe fans like myself know that Dupin, the detective who is your partner in the game, is the legendary French detective Poe created for Murders in the Rue Morgue, so very cleverly done by the creator of this game to combine two Poe classics into one. This game is fun to play, although I wish the puzzles were more difficult, as they are quite easy in this game compared to other point-and-click games I've played. Overall, an enjoyable game.

Really short game, crashed a lot.

Nice graphics and amazing concept art!The plot was good with all this pirate treasure and the gold Bug(I wish there was somerum too!).Nonetheless,I really enjoyed the game and hope that Big Fish Games releases more of her games on Steam!

Меня, как горячего поклонника Эдгара По, она совершенно устраивает. Жаль только, что нет русского языка.

I just love the series and what they made with E.A.Poes Stories. This one is rather short and the puzzles are quite easy, but artwork and story are really good. The only problem for me is, that it really crashes a lot (but I never lost progress). I would recommend grabbing it on sale (because of the crashes and its shortness).

What a beautiful hidden object game! One of my favs in this genre. 1 - Great music! 2 - Creative Storyline is gonna keep you hooked! 3 - Beautiful graphics! 4 - If you're an Edgar Allan Poe's fan then this is the right game to play. 5 - Challenging and fun puzzles but it also has great hints. 6 - You get to have a dog help you find clues, sooo cute. 7 - Solve a murder with a handsome detective lol 8 - You can still re-play areas which is fun! 9 - Cut-scenes are great! 10 - Are you still reading this? GO and get the game, right now!!!

Pretty average and it stopped working three times displaying "runtime error"

That fisherman is a lying, cheating bastard. It was him all along, I don't care what the narrator, the detective, or the ending said. Good-for-nothing, bootless bootlicker.

[h1]Too short, and too simple for most of us adults, but it might be fine for kids.[/h1] For such a lame HOG to bear the name of Edgar Allan Poe is a travesty. There is hardly any complexity that you might assume would come with it - the first part of the game has no backtracking, there are no collectables, no achievements, no card drops ergo no badges, and the puzzles are laughable. So there are a few hidden scenes (messes with a list of what to find) and a few deductive reasoning scenes (where you follow a domino effect to eventually end up with one item, but everything you find, you use to get that item). But some of these... whew! One that stood out for me as ridiculous was somehow pulling up a boat buried in a lake in a cave, and thoroughly searching it, so as to open an age-old chest to get... a pickaxe! What in tarnation! There are a few puzzles that might give you cause to stop and think but let me just add that my total play time includes going away from keyboard to get dinner and look after our pet bird, so I'm guessing the average hogger will finish in around the same time as me. However I didn't even bother with the bonus chapter, such was my distaste for the whole experience. I have another of these 'Edgar Allan Poe' titles in my backlog... I'm really not looking forward to it. Also, be ready for your game to crash a few times at random due to runtime errors.