Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 28, 2019

  Too easy in most cases. Some of the puzzles are just plain tedious without any difficulty. Very short... and not even any achievements to make up for the overall blandness.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 20, 2017

  This game is probably a super awesome hidden object game. It wasn't tagged with that so I bought it. It is a hidden object game. Thumbs up for the erotic wolf :D https://youtu.be/q6yEnBR82og
• gamedeal user

  Mar 4, 2019

  This is a short, enjoyable hidden object/ puzzle game. However, the asking price is ridiculous because it takes only a couple of hours to reach the end. And there's no bonus chapter. So ONLY get this if it has an exceptionally good sale and you don't mind playing a bite-sized game. Beautiful graphics and voice acting (some good, some cheesy) make the quality of Ominous Tales better than quite a few HOs out there. It's a shame it's not longer.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 10, 2018

  The pros: - stunning art - atmosphere done Just Right - riddles are on the more difficult side of challenging, but not impossible. Nice! - lots of well-hidden extra collectibles in the scenes that both add challenges and fit in and add to the story rather than making you find random goblets or butterflies - the female ghosts has such a deep voice that she sounds like the was voiced by a guy. It's hilarious! The cons: - each time the hint button is used the game crashes for me - same happens when I leave the game to do something else on my computer - game crashes If the game wouldn't have the bug that keeps making it crash it'd be easily one of my favorite HOGs but as things are I can only recommend it for people who don't mind playing it with very little breaks and who like the extra challenge of playing with as little hints as possible.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 7, 2018

  TL;DR: Too short, don't buy I have played literally hundreds of Hidden Object Games. Most of them are cheesy, and so is this one, but that alone doesn't justify a thumbs down. It's part of the job description. Hidden Object Games usually make no sense, and their plots don't qualify them for a Hugo Award. But this one doesn't even try. Don't you love hidden object scenes where you have to find a dozen items, just to be awarded with one that was never in the scene to begin with? And don't you love spending almost ten euros for a game that has a total of thirteen scenes to offer? I'm not talking hidden object scenes (there's maybe half a dozen of them), but the point-and-click scenes that make up the whole game. Thirteen of them, and it's over. After spending a total of three scenes just getting of a bloody ship, when the second-but-last scene had me in front of the villain's mansion door I though I was getting a second act inside the mansion. But no. Get inside, there's one last scene (called "The Lair"), and you're done. You'll have to solve two more puzzles with Mr. Villain Guy ("Vincent") hovering in midair without doing anything to stop you, then put an end to him, and that's it. Game over. Steam says still it took me almost two hours to finish this game, but Steam also counts the time I spent trying to start the game with the game just vanishing after playing the intro. It's clunky as hell, the cursor is the most unprecise in any game I've played lately, some hidden objects require clicking five or more times to finally vanish, and the game also overrides your mouse settings - so with my lefthanded mouse, I had to use the middle finger to click, and it felt like the game was giving me the middle finger in return. Oh, and did I mention the game forgetting the difficulty settings after restarting? Resets you to "easy" every time you quit (or the game crashes). True, the graphics are nice. But most HOPAs have nice graphics nowadays, we're not in 2007 any more. Voice acting is horrible. The extras a three pieces of soundtrack and a couple of background images - no bonus game play to make up for the short main game. This game is unacceptable short and completely overpriced. I got it at about 80% off in the summer sale and still feel I got ripped off. There are some very good HOPAs out there. Go play one of them. Don't waste your money on this one.