Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows

I had a blast playing this. I'm glad I found it and would easily recommend it to others.

This is not a hidden object game by most any definition. Nothing is hidden other than those annoying morphing objects that HOGs regularly include to force you to spend 5 mins staring vapidly at the screen with every change in location. There are also almost no puzzles, and the couple that are included are the annoying kind of "move things around until by random chance you stumble on the answer" puzzles. Without any HOPs or puzzles, this is essentially a PnC (pick up objects and move to a new locations to use them), but without the usual PnC engaging story or humor or really any cleverness whatsoever. Oh, and it crashes sometimes. I guess the only positive is that every time it crashed, I didn't lose any progress. I don't think I could have endured redoing any portion of this game. Definitely not recommended - even if it is on a massive sale.

Short but fun little game. It did crash a couple of times, and it is possible to soft-lock progress by using a certain item in a certain place, without having the item needed to progress, which can't be picked up without the item that got locked in the first place.

It had been a long time since I had played a Hidden Object type of game, and this one definitely plays like one but is slightly different in its approach. There are no "find the object" puzzles which ultimately yield a singular item for use somewhere else, every item is found in the overworld and then used in the overworld. This is intended to be a "Spooky" Atmospheric style horror game but the trope it plays into most? Jump Scares. Honestly the first few got me as I wasn't expecting them but after about half an hour I knew what I was in for. I replayed this game a few times because it appeared as though there might be multiple endings as in my original I did not collect all of the Rl'yeh/Cthulu Medals, however beyond collecting them that second time through I have no idea what the Cultists had to do with any of this. I didn't get a new ending for it and it felt like, especially as some were relatively tricksy to find, that this was an effort to flesh out the title rather than something significantly plot-altering. Ultimately I don't recommend this title as either a Hidden Object Title or an Adventure Title, it doesn't comfortably fit into either and falls foul on most fronts.

Artwork is decent, animations and atmosphere is bad. Voice acting is horrendous and should have just been left out completely, it made me laugh on serveral occasions just by how awful it was. Story is extremely mediocre but could have been a bit better if the ending wasen´t so sloppy and abrupt. Avoid, there are far better games in the genre.

Great game!

A decent point-and-click mystery game. I used a bunch of hints and random clicking. I was very glad for the map telling me where to go, made it easier