Maze: Sinister Play Collector's Edition

I play a lot of HOG type games. This one has an interesting set of stories that are all kind of loosely tied together in the main game, but are more tightly knit during the bonus chapter. Still..the story overall could've been better. Pros: 1. Map shows you where you've got objectives to do 2. Map allows teleport 3. Minigames aren't too difficult, but still challenging enough to be interesting. 4. Achievements in the game. If you don't find all the collectibles during the game (and it's easy to miss them in a few scenes where the game hurries along), you can go back later after the game is done and find those pieces you missed. 5. Extras include a puzzle mode (putting together puzzles specifically), soundtrack, concept art, collectibles, an "ultimate hidden object game," character bios, and wallpapers. 6. Options allow you to choose how difficult you want the game to be. Cons: 1. Some of the HOG's are pixel hunt messes where the object you're looking for is tucked under something else and only a tiny part is showing. 2. Portions of the story felt weaker than they could've been. Honestly, instead of trying to tell 3 different mini-stories, it might've been better to stick with 1 or 2 that cohesively worked together. 3. No Steam achievements (boo) 4. Some of the RPG elements (Choose to do A or do B) are just unnecessary. There's only 1 choice that's going to work and more often than not, there's no real problem if you didn't make the right choice. You can just choose again. 5. It doesn't matter how well you play a couple of the stories, certain characters die anyway. That felt like bull. Why play the stories at all then? Just do a cut scene. Otherwise, if you played that story correctly, the character shouldn't be dead. It feels like a waste of time otherwise. 6. Jump scares. Can we all just stop with that garbage now? It's not scary anymore. It's just annoying. It isn't even a good thing in normal horror shows/movies, so it might be time for game companies to move on from it as a thing. Anyway, despite all of my "issues" with it, I did appreciate the art style and liked some of the game. In general, it's not a bad way to spend a few hours.

At last a HOG that doesn't have fairies, magic goblins or recipes for potions of one sort or another. I liked this, a less formulaic story line, medium hard HO scenes, selectable mini-game difficulty and appropriate soundtrack all make this a bit different from the norm. Although played with no hints or skips the game lasted a decent length of time was a real change from the usual.

Enjoyable game, nice touch with the extra achievements. Story is great, i love this series!

Nice ;)

Standard quality hidden-object game from Mad Head, this time with a horror twist. However, Maze: Subject 360 was slightly better and the best HOPA on the market is still True Fear.

I found it entertaining to do. It was good for a Big Fish game. I liked it and would use it again. The graphics are good and it had a good setup for the stories that you each did. It was worth the buy.

Not too impressed by the story or the fearfactor. I'm just dissapointed, maybe I expected something else.

I love the Maze series. I've been playing its games since the first release (Subject 360). This new game keeps the usual high quality at its best with a very catching story. Maybe the HOPs can be a biy frustating at times, but, on the other hand, I appreciated the possibility to choose the difficulty level of the puzzles and the possibility to try to catch the missed collectibles after finishing the game.

Ca faisait longtemps que je ne m'étais pas autant amusée sur un HOG. Même si la 3e histoire est un peu courte, on retrouve enfin les bases de ce type de jeu, à savoir : une histoire cool (et qui pour une fois ne donne pas dnas la fantasy), des énigmes un peu différentes de d'habitude, des HOGs parfois vraiment pas faciles, des objets à utiliser que bien après les avoir trouvés, et des extra de qualité !

Great for a relaxing stress-free game.