Hiddenverse: Ominous Opus

Beautiful artwork, fine story, diverse challenges, excellent price. And a wonderful relaxed (untimed) option. However, broken at the grammaphone screen...cannot recommend.

Hobbies, hidden objects, adventure, puzzles, mystery, choices accordingly. PLOT Avenlee Courtwald, a young writer, while working on her latest book, receives a letter from her dear friend Emet St. Riser, who invites her to go to the quiet town called Dawford to meet. Avenlee immediately sets off thinking that maybe she can find inspiration from this visit, but unfortunately as soon as she arrives she receives bad news, her friend Emet has disappeared, the body is found abandoned and hidden under rubble in the sewers. The way he died suggests that it was not an accident, but certainly a murder carried out by someone who did not want certain information to be known. The young writer begins to investigate, she wants to solve this mystery and give justice to Emet. But who can he trust? And what choices will you make to reach the solution? Is it better to use persuasion or forceful methods to discover the truth? It is up to us to decide our destiny, based on our choices we will change history..... PLAYABILITY There are various levels of objects to search for and match, these will carry the plot forward, we also find objects and locations to analyze, and notes to read. It is pleasant and fun to play, it was created to be replayed several times, because the story changes depending on the choices we make. Unfortunately, about halfway through the game there is a BIG BUG that doesn't allow you to continue and finish the adventure in any way. This problem is reported several times by several users in the "Discussions" but is completely ignored!!! I don't recommend buying this game, I don't understand why they don't make a patch, it's a good and well made product, it makes no sense to leave it half-finished like this! It doesn't seem like an honest thing to me at all, because the bug is found beyond 2 hours of play so it's not refundable, but I don't think it's fair to users to offer an incomplete product!

Do not buy this game. I never even made it half way through and the gramaphone examination would not let me past. Took me to a blank screen.

This game is a piece of JUNK. It doesn't work.

Only one hour in, but I'm enjoying this as a deviation from the standard hidden object tropes. Instead of basic puzzles and objects hidden in rooms, it's *mostly* variations on objects randomly stacked over each other. A few examples: * Find sets of three of the same object * Find pairs of objects that together produce one of the target objects (e.g. pickaxe and gold ore to make gold bars) * Find paired half-objects * Pair monochrome objects with their equivalent color object * Pair different sizes of the same object * Find pairs of specifically the named target objects * Find pairs of specifically the pictured target objects It *also* has a few scenes of objects hidden in rooms, and some basic other puzzles, but the variety of find-the-things minigames makes a nice change from the standard hidden object game. I did run into a bug early on (it was directing me to click to spend a purple star that I didn't have, so that wouldn't work and everything else was disabled) - I exited the game, reloaded and continued and that unlatched the problem. Apart from that it's been pretty smooth so far. Edit: At 4.5 hours, changed from positive to negative because of the game being broken at "examine the gramophone" (just going to a blank screen and not progressing the story), as others have said. Weird to just leave it like that.

Game bugged out (common among many players, examining gramophone doesn't lead anywhere and you can't continue the game) and there doesn't seem to be any solution to fix it and no answers from devs.

https://youtu.be/VJTf0RQ08KU Fundamentally strong meta layers are completely lost by the only progression activity being repetitive pair matching of the same set of randomly sorted object like a CAPTCHA test.

It's not really a HOG, you've got to do little matching puzzles to get yellow and purple points to progress the plot. This would be okay for some people. But also, when you get to the stables, there's a moment where you have to "examine the gramophone", and when you do the game bugs and you can't go any further.