There's No Santa

Another hidden object game on steam. Find Christmassy objects strewn across a several lineart levels. Pros: - [b]Settings[/b]: You can change the window size instantaneously, plenty of preset color combos to choose from - [b]Music[/b]: good variety of holiday-like options to mix it up - [b]"Difficulties"[/b]: Easy gives you object pictures and number of; Medium gives you total number of objects and tells you when you've found all of Object A or B [i.e. all candy canes or Santas have been found]; Hard gives you a sequential list; Dark is Medium except the viewing screen is severely obfuscated as if you're searching a dark room with a flashlight Mids: - [b]Hints[/b]: point out specifically where the object is, leaving no ambiguity - [b]Object Fade[/b]: After finding the object, it fades away instead of simply being highlighted, which I find unsatisfying. - [b]Theme clash[/b]: we're looking for Christmas objects in a saloon, an alien ship and a candy shop. Not even like a western Christmas, just a plain old saloon with hidden Christmas objects thrown in. They could swap out christmas with Easter or halloween objects and it would be just as "satisfying", which doesn't help fend off the mass produced slop allegations... - [b]Reused objects[/b]: no matter the difficulty, you're looking for the same candy canes and gingerbread men on the same four levels. Sometimes there slightly modified (Santa is in a slightly different pose and such), but overall even on levels with "hidden images", you know what to find. - [b]Size[/b]: Why is the free game 400 MB? There are four small levels and like three songs. Cons: - [b]Achievements[/b]: Over half of the game's achievements are behind the paid dlc, and some are grindy which is very annoying for a game with so little meaningful replayability. - [b]Level Variety[/b]: Base game is four, DLC is five more. They don't change between modes, so the only difference is some objects move in subsequent plays. Near zero replayability IMO - [b]Art[/b]: the minimalistic design feels overly simplistic and verging on noisy eyesore. The illogical clutter makes finding things less challenging and more annoying, with some hidden objects feeling very cheap. - [b]Object Selecting[/b]: Sometimes the game felt funky when I was trying to click objects, like their hitboxes were slightly (yet annoyingly) off. 4/10. It's largely built well, but there is nothing that stands out. The way its listed as "a free game with paid DLC" and not "a paid game with a demo" feels misleadingly predatory.