Secret Files: Sam Peters Reviews

This is far more of a sideways thumb more indicating that its mostly playable, but there's better options out there. You take on the role of Samantha Peter's journalist extraordinaire... beautiful, smart, not very humble and absolutely insufferable. I think they were going for the cutesy rom-com girl and may have hit the mark because I could not connect with her. Your introduction to the character is that she decides to abandon her friend and adventure partner on an island with an exploding volcano because "He's a man and he should be doing the rescuing." She's selfish, egotistical and her one liners tended to miss the mark for me. The story itself was passable with some interesting twists. I don't want to cover many details due to the genre, but it is a really short game probably taking 2-3 hours max but the narrative tends to flow pretty well and the payoff was enjoyable enough. About my only complaint was an unusual and out of place choice at the ending. I've had no choices so far... why have one now? Mechanically, it's not quite moon-logic but it's close. About half of the solutions involve illogical actions that either worked in a B-Movie once, and the other half are just clicking on items trying to combine them randomly. Sam often has a smart-alec comments, but rarely has useful clues as to why something works or what needs to be done. For example, at one point I had a ball cap, her comment was "Can you believe some people actually wear these?", and the solution was use my pocket knife on that cap to get a string! At least the UI for combining things is pretty fast to test everything. They do have a "Highlight Interactables" option which is a fantastic choice to avoid pixel hunts, but in this particular game it rarely helped. This is because many of the puzzles involved combining items in your inventory in unusual ways rather than the usual pixel hunts. The game was hampered a bit by some unusual UI jank. There were times where using an item would trigger as a "LOOK AT" which convinced me that I was on the wrong track. A few minutes later I try the same action out of desperation and it worked. It's not a frequent issue, but it's also a very short game for it to happen more than once. Overall, I have no feelings about this game. It's fine. If you like this era of low budget adventure games it's perfectly decent. It does what it needs to. But on the same note, it doesn't do much more than that.

Very short game, in the style of Secret Files trilogy... and honestly I enjoyed playing it it more then Secret Files 3.

I can't and don't recommend this game, mainly for my friends who love P&C adventure games. Average play time about 2 hours- can easily complete the game in 1 hour. At a price point of 10$ it isn't worth it at all. It's been 11 years since I got the game but I got it on sale. [h3]This is not an actual "SF" game.[/h3] This is just a story to explain what happened to Sam after the events that took place during SF2. So if you want to know what happened to Sam then go for it. That's all this game is, and even then this could've been done a lot better. They could've just added a short video or story to the end of SF3 to show what happened to Sam. This is a very short game, can be done in about an hour honestly, my playthrough today was 1 hour 14 minutes. Last time I played this was in 2014 and decided to replay again to leave a review. There really isn't much in this game either, the puzzles are extremely simple minus the cave at the end. This game is just extremely dull. With P&C games you pick up items and carry them around until you need them which is fine, but this is one of those games where you can have too many items at once, and being such a short game it was really unnecessary to carry so much at once. The mystery? Isn't even that grand or exciting to figure out. I replay P&C games that I really like, and when it comes to this game, I didn't like it the first time and I still don't like it now. I can see this being worth it for the Sam Peters fans out there, but I was never a fan of hers to begin with. I only got the game because it was part of the SF series, and honestly I could've gone without playing it.