Discovery! A Seek and Find Adventure

This is an interesting HOG as it has pretty much unlimited replay value. It's setup more like a game show, you compete against other competitors. If you want a fast and good HOG with really no other puzzles then grab this unique mashup of: Hidden Object, Wheel of Fortune, Price is Right and Jeopardy. Try the Demo first see if you like it

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The game has a unique take on the 'Hidden Object' genre, framing it under the concept of a gameshow. It appears interesting at first yes, but unfortunately, squanders its potential. You are assigned a vacation destination at first, which sets the overall theme of that playthrough. You then spin the wheel which determines the prize value of each found item for that round, with finding items consecutively and being the first to find the item before your competitors awarding more money (the game's equivalent of points). Aside from the HOG scenes, you do have a small selection of gameshow-style minigames, which sells the gameshow vibe pretty well. Except, there is literally no point in collecting the cash. The cash you win from completing rounds in the gameshow is just a gimmicky stand-in for the arbitrary point/score system you find in games. This defeats the whole premise of the game of the gameshow concept of competition, and by extension, a superficial time limit to make decisions. The HOG aspect is your box-standard scenes; nothing special. However, given the age of the game, the graphics aren't particularly great and playing on a widescreen monitor exacerbates the problem. Most of the item outlines are very grainy and looks stretched out, making it particularly hard to identify them sometimes. And unless you prefer to strain your eyes to play in Windowed mode which does alleviate the problem, you may find the HOG scenes to be quite frustrating sometimes. Also, while there are different destinations to play for, the gameplay is more or less the same. It just changes the backgrounds of the HOG and affects some of the minigames like the trivia one, since they ask fun facts about the vacation destination. Essentially, once you've played through one destination, you've more or less played what the game can offer, unless you want to try out the minigames you didn't get a chance to play or are a completionist by nature. One destination takes you less than 30 minutes from start to end and it gets repetitive and dull quickly.

Discovery! A Seek & Find Adventure is an unusual spin on hidden object games, where instead of some kind of story driven adventure, it's posed as a travel-themed game show where you go through rounds against AI competitors to win more money than they do, and win a "pretend" ticket to whatever destination came up on the wheel. While the idea is novel, it doesn't hit the mark. The hidden objects are rarely related to the topical country selected for the round. Other issues, the objects are weirdly sized and weirdly positioned (some just hanging in the sky). Although there's no real "rules" for hidden object games, it's just weird finding a slice of pizza bigger than 20 men sitting on the Sydney opera house. Also, fixed resolution and 4:3 aspect ratio make this unacceptable for PC.

Juego de objetos ocultos que te ubica como concursante de un show de concursos (ni idea quien vería algo así) que se queda en una sola temporada por falta de consistencia y calidad. PROS -Variedad de Mecánicas: Entre cada ronda de objetos ocultos se accede mediante ruleta a 1 de 4 minijuegos que le dan algo de diversidad. -Sonido: Sin ser destacable, a menos hacen loop de forma correcta, es acorde a cada locación y no distrae. Los diálogos del presentador (que no afectan en nada si te los saltas y son los únicos diálogos en el juego) son energéticos sin caer en ser fastidiosos. NEUTRO Logros: el juego tiene logros internos, pero no están coordinados con steam ni parece que vaya a hacerlo. En neutro porque se que a mucha gente le interesan un pepino los logros en steam CONTRAS -Resolución fija. Solo se puede cambiar de pantalla completa a modo ventana. -Calidad de imagen: La calidad de los objetos a encontrar varia demasiado, de fotos super nítidas a imágenes casi pixeladas y descoloridas, lo que afecta la presentación y en ocasiones a la identificación de dichos objetos en el juego. -Y los rivales apa?!: Participas en un programa de concursos contra 2 rivales, pero igual podrías participar tu solo porque rara vez ofrecen competencia. En la ronda de objetos ocultos rara vez se acercan a tu puntaje, y en los minijuegos ni siquiera participan, lo que hace completamente anecdotico que estén ahí. Si la IA del juego te llega a ganar mas de 1 round, tal vez ya necesitas lentes (o nuevos lentes). Los únicos que medio ponen presión son los gurus al final del juego, principalmente los últimos 2, no demasiado, pero al menos te presionan un poco. CONCLUSION Dale una oportunidad si eres asiduo de este tipo de juegos y si o si tienes que jugarlos todos cual si fueran pokemons, o si acaso te lo ganaste en un sorteo como yo. No ofrece nada superior a otros juegos del genero y para los que no les gusta este genero les resultara tedioso y aburrido despues del segundo programa.

Tags: Adventure - WC - Hidden Object Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Low quality gameshow style hidden object. Pretend like you win prizes as only excuse to get dumped in postcard scenes flooded with small items to find. This game has a lot of issues, between the abusive use of color reshades, the complete lack of proprotions, the use of object to obstruct parts of other objects and the occasional modes where no hints are provided there is a lot of frustration to be had. The A.I. opponents represent no threat and serve as a very weak narrative vehicle to motivate you to go forward. Winning fake vacations is not exciting either. All you get for your trouble of going through the same country postcards three times to finish the match is the opportunity to then play that country in standalone mode. The objects have all the qualities of having been randomly placed but they are not. Loading the same postcard twice will place the objects in the same locations they were before. There is the occasional memory card game, spotting 7 differences but they are derivative and arguably poorly implemented Given the sheer overabundance of much better polished hidden object games that either throw in better narrative, better atmosphere, better setting, cleaner art or more interesting puzzles this falls at the bottom of the barrel fairly hard. Removed permanently into hidden library of deleted titles for declutter.

Si no sabes nada de inglés quizás este juego sólo te enseñe algunas palabras que no conocías ya que no está disponible en español. Es el típico juego "seek-and-find" pero le agregaron la modalidad de una mezcla del concurso televisivo "Boom" (el programa de Antena 3) con un concurso de azar. La modalidad del juego es extraña, al principio elijes tu personaje, te dan premios solo por girar una ruleta, elijes al azar el país por donde empezar y una vez que empiezas la idea es descubrir objetos según la categoría.. pero hay un detalle: Los objetos son realmente difíciles de conseguir, pareciera que el nivel mas fácil para ambientarse es el nivel mas experto. Se detallan los objetos pero se nota que es solo una imagen con otras imágenes encima, entiendo las pocas sombras, la falta de 3D, las texturas represente un reto para lograr un desafío pero esto solo hace que solo sean un montón de imágenes acopladas, añadiendo que escasa en casi la totalidad de animación por parte de los locutores y le falta mucha didáctica para que el jugador sienta que de verdad está en un concurso de dinero. Con el pasar del juego vas ganando logros pero estos solo son dentro del juego, no tiene logros de Steam. No vale la pena el precio de $9.99 USD Clasificación final: 2/10

Considering that there's a hint button I don't understand all the negative reviews. You just have one computer screen, so it isn't that hard to find the objects eventually. Definitely a game that tries to maximize the difficulty while still being fair. I liked it!

Fun hidden object game, like a TV game show, and you always win, and crowds cheer you on!

Mindless. but alright....