Shades of Black Reviews

This is one of the best Carol Reed games of all. I never get tired of these games. It is like traveling abroad and seeing different places and learning new things. Waiting for the next!

Typical Carol Reed game. If you like the rest, you'll like this too. I like them! Simple gameplay, great scenery, puzzles that won't crack too many brain cells but are fun when you crack them. Straight PnC adventures for those of use who enjoy 'em.

pros -lots of exploring in a number of different and gorgeous looking environments. -there are some interesting indoor and outdoor locations such as Sala Silver Mine Suite and Eco Lodges. these locations presenting with ımmersive and colorful first-person realistic photographic stills. it feels to you as if you re really there! - there are many hard to solve but enjoyable puzzles. - relaxing soundtrack - lenghty gameplay. cons -story concluded pretty cliche in the end -pixel hunting some in door locations. -sometimes you don't know what to do next.

I found the game less interesting than the previous ones, the plot is complex with final twist, perhaps less characters to interact with. but it is always a pleasure to play. advice, Bosch's the damnation, Cold Case summer, Amber blood, east side story.

I LOVE the MDNA games and this one is no exception. Highly recommended for adventure gamers of the point and click kind. 5/5 I hope/wish the developer would offer the entire series but they can be purchased on their website directly.

Since I've played each Nancy Drew game multiple times, I decided to try one of these Carol Reed mystery games. This was the first one I've played, as the older ones of the series are only on the company's website for about 15 bucks. I wanted to try one on Steam first. I'm glad I did. Not as good as Nancy Drew maybe, and definitely a shorter playing time, but I did have a good time with it.

This game is absolutely well worth playing , its so full of mystery and certainly had me stumped many many times , which i love having to try and work out all the different types of puzzles and clues along the way, it also has a great story behind it . i especially enjoyed the part where i got to crack him over the head near the end hehehe that was fun . I hope another one of these games comes out soon, i love these types of games that i can play with no time limits etc ,Thanks once again for making another great game regards June from Australia

Was looking for something similar to Nancy Drew. Couldn't play for more than 30 minutes, this game feels like some middle-aged lady with foot fetish made it. It feels invasive (for example, when you explore the house you're constanly shown very personal stuff like red bra or close ups of shoes) and voyeuristic. Checked other reviews and I'm so not surprised to see other kink-related stuff there further in the game. Ew! I felt like an intruder.

Though I've only played this for a short time I found it different than most hidden/adventure object games I played. The tutorial was very straight forward and simple. I looked how real pictures are used and people with voices. I liked looking for things without all the clues (like sparkles saying "LOOK HERE!") It made the game more challenging having to watch for the curser icon to change from a yellow dot to a hand, magnifier or gears. It was nice to be able to pan around the room by clicking on the far right or left arrows when they appeared. I can say I like the game thus far.

Shades of Black is the eleventh entry in Carol Reed's series. Here, Carol tries to publish a book about one of her previous investigation (The Blue Madonna) but fails to do so. However, one of the publishers contacts her after a writer disappeared without contact. It's up to Carol to find why Gerald Black is hiding from the world and who wants to hurt him. To remind you, Carol is a British national that visited Sweden and fell in love with the country. She's now living there and is a private investigator. As the gameplay didn't change from Bosch's Damnation, the previous game and the first one to be on Steam, here's part of my Steam review for this one. It's a point and click game, you find objects, you use them, you solve puzzles thanks to clues and you speak with people. The game is done with real life pictures and real people. There is no video inside but you can see differences in the pictures: people are making differents expressions, if you open a door, you'll see it open. It could be a walking simulator as you're walking from scene to scene without having to search something and each close-up doesn't bring everytime a clue or an object, just a nice view... and the fact that in real life, you would have looked at that. The soundtrack is as usual a good one, and the voice acting is really interesting. In terms of plot, the game is well-written. You're really going from surprise to surprise (Mrs Allegra was a huge help for example though your first meeting with her was kinda... intimidating). Besides, the achievements added aren't tied to the story but to actions you may do or not.... but there is one that nobody seems to find as it's the publisher and not the developer that did that (developers are selling their games on their site, I should perhaps play the older Carol Reed, now that they accept ways to pay that I can access). Seriously, Shades of Black is really a good game. It's maybe less focused on Swedish culture like in Bosch's Damnation due to the fact that you've gone from museum to museum in that one but it's still enjoyable. Good idea to bring it on Steam!