History in Letters - The Eternal Alchemist

This worked well on Windows 10. This is a cute match 3 game with a bit of story and a few mini games mixed in. I played it with touch screen and mouse, both worked smoothly. Right clicking will release your selection. The music and game play was very relaxing. The artwork is beautiful.

The game crashed frequently. It's not very intuitive. The hidden object scenes are horrible with some items so tiny and hidden that you just have to click randomly all over the screen until you accidentally hit on a speck that looks nothing like what you're supposedly looking for. Some of the puzzles are quite obtuse where there's no clue what to do, so you have to just keep guessing to solve them. There are long pauses between scenes and locations. It's just a horrible game that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Unfortunately, I only got about 5 out of 28 achievements, so I knew I still had a long ways to go before I would finish the game when the stupid game crashed on me again. Instead of restarting, I rage quit and asked for a refund. I also recognized from some of the achievements that it would be necessary to play the game multiple times to get all the achievements (because of opposing choices), and apparently there's no chapter select and only one save slot. I wasn't having fun as it was, and there's no way I was going to play this dumb, boring game with all its crashes multiple times. Unfortunately, since I didn't get all the achievements, this game will negatively impact my game "Completionist" score. So, achievement hunters beware, you probably do not want to try this game... it will be a long, frustrating journey if you can even make it to 100%. And, btw, there's no real help for this game anywhere. There's only one guide on Steam that explains one of the many puzzles in the game, and virtually nothing on YouTube. No full gameplay anywhere on the Internet, and believe me I looked. There are about 5 guides on YouTube, and they're all only 12 to 14 minutes long. They all abruptly stop very early in the game with no continuation or follow up videos, every single one of them. I guess that's a clue right there, that all the YouTube players got frustrated with the game very early on and abandoned it.