Murder by Moonlight - Call of the Wolf

"Murder by Moonlight - Call of the Wolf" is a Hidden Object puzzle game, the type you normally see on mobile app stores or even as browser apps. There's literally hundreds of these on Steam, mostly published by Artifex Mundi, many of them free on mobile app stores, but this one will cost you money on Steam. There's a werewolf theme to the game, but this is a just a veneer over a tired and overdone set of hidden object minigames and Adobe Flash tier puzzles, wrapped together with a bunch of static screens that you "move" through by tapping your finger on your iPhone screen. This differentiates from most of the HH hidden object mobile app spam by also featuring HH's match-3 mobile app spam, making this a (bad) hybrid of a (bad) match-3 and a (bad) HOG. There's still nothing of value here for dedicated PC Gamers. While these kinds of games are popular amongst casual gamers, it's difficult to argue this is a great value proposition as a PC game, especially considering the price of this compared to the hundreds of free HOGs on the mobile app stores. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Murder by Moonlight - Call of the Wolf" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 6 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. "Murder by Moonlight - Call of the Wolf" has the cash grab price of around $6 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. [b][quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/quote][/b]Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.

https://youtu.be/UZFCmim7QD8 Large amounts of match-3 grinding is required to make even the smallest amount progress in the narrative far to much to make the investment worthwhile.

Y'all, I like to play this type of game when i want to just chill and lose the problems of the day and not have to be looking over my shoulder to see who is trying to take me out of the game. Its a Detective, Match 3 with some hidden object side games to change things up a little. The match 3 game i have played when you run out of move it just shuffles the tiles or sets a new grid, this one give you police tools to take out single tiles or a entire line. It's a fun game and i enjoyed it. I got my five dollars worth. WATCH OUT FOR THE SPIDERS!!

A marginal thumbs up for this casual Match 3 / hidden object 'mystery'. The good: The Match 3 gameplay is solid and relatively fun. The time limit was just there to provide a little incentive to hurry, and I rarely ran out of time. The concept of dialog rewards and hidden object mini-games works well with the theme. I got 9 hours out of this, and I think it ended right about when I wanted it to. Time wise, at least. The meh: Story and dialog were super generic. The character art looks outdated and...weird. It's not the worst, just unappealing. Also, I could have used MORE dialog and story. Like how about an interaction reward after each and every round? Not just after every three or so? The bad: Voice acting is like three people and they're all pretty bad. The narrator sounds like one of the South Park creators putting on a parody voice...but the humor is unintentional. The ending is both entirely predictable and a cop out. I had fun with Murder by Moonlight, as I often enjoy the odd Match 3 or solitaire game to play while I'm watching TV or as a coffee break game at work. But I definitely would not pay more than $5 for this. And to be honest, I'd be a little reluctant to try more by the same developer.

I have played similar games but this crime theme is different. An enjoyable game but not too keen on the country & western music On level 2-2 a tile just would not budge so had to restart the level. Enjoyed the game.

Graphisch zwar schön gestaltet und auch ein wenig anspruchsvoll, kann ich das Spiel trotzdem nicht empfehlen-denn das hier ist das langweiligste "3 gewinnt" das ich bis hierher gespielt habe.