Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek

not bad, terrible voice acting though

I've played a bunch of Artifex Mundi HOP games before I got to this one. This is one of their older games, and the age shows compared to the newer titles. One of the biggest things I missed in this game compared to newer games was the ability to navigate using the map. In this game, you have to hoof it by hand everywhere you want to go. There's a map, but it just shows you where the locations are in relation to each other. You can't use it to fast travel. There were also some rough edges on some of the click targets and interactions. Some of the HO puzzle objects required being clicked in a very specific place before they would register. And the lockpick puzzle was very fiddly trying to get the lockpick to engage with the lock. That said, there were a much higher number of HO puzzles in this compared to others I have played from this studio, and they were more challenging. Overall this game was much bigger and a bit more difficult compared to their newer titles, and I found that pretty rewarding, so despite the rough edges, I'd recommend this game to fans of the genre.