Chronicles of Mystery - Secret of the Lost Kingdom Reviews

Unplayable game. We did finish it, although it was more out of a curiosity if that was even possible. The story makes no sense and is not immersive at all. You have to read tons of text notes if you want to know whats going on. Mechanics are also really bad. It was super confusing where active areas are. Very sensitive for misclicks. HO often were two pixel sized objects. Most ridiculous though, were the adventure puzzles. Spoiler if you're stuck: Shoot the kiwi at the eagle ;-)

Unless you are willing to fight major compatibility issues in order to "play" this feeble excuse for monetary gain, don't bother.

I installed, deleted and reinstalled the game. I am not able to pick up items. I learned that I need to read the comments about the Chronicles of Mystery bundle. I would have known that it would be a problem. Please learn from my mistake.

Started out barely okay at best and devolved into an unplayable mess. Controls strated to not respond the further in the game I got, then it started running super slow, like: click the puzzle piece to move it, watch an hour glass sit there for 30 seconds and watch as the pieces starts to slide over, 15 seconds later the piece gets into place. Only 65 more moves to make... I think not.

This game sucks. No vocal dialogue just read everything. Glitchy hidden object scenes. I gave this company 2 chances in case just one of their games sucked but got burned twice.

No matter how much I click on the objects in the HOG puzzles, the game doesn't recognise the fact that I've found them.

This continues the 'story' of the Legend of the Sacred Treasure, and manages to be even worse. I got stuck trying to find the snake's egg; the game shows some sparkles in the throne room (pointing at the arcade) but will not start a hidden object scene anywhere. The walkthrough is wrong; it isn't possible to add the water to the pot before all ingredients have been gathered. For the rest it has all the same flaws: objects in impossible places, objects of just a few pixels in size, non-working hints, timed scenes, etc.

I cannot believe that this game has 0% Steam review score... Almost all reviews complain that game is beyond broken, that button pressing does not work, that nothing works. I did not encounter any glitches at all, all button pressings worked. Maybe I got extremely lucky, but it's just so weird that I did not encounter any problems and everyone else did. + The music is fantastic. + The story was very interesting, it kept mystery until the end, it ended very simplistic, but I somehow wasn't disappointed by the ending. + You can collect hidden gems and use them to skip puzzles. - The hidden object minigames makes you collect lots of stuff you don't need. It extends the playtime I guess, but it does not connect to story or anything at all. - There are very few puzzles. I don't get the pipe puzzle, it was the only puzzle I skipped with gems as for all other puzzles they were fun, but I guess they were too easy. - Whole story and conversations are in text exept for the cutscenes, I wish that conversations had voice acting. 7/10

I don't really recommend this game as it's simply too short. Though if you can grab it on sale it's a quick couple of hours of entertainments. Pros -Interesting use of spot the difference by using a mirror image. -Hint bar refills quickly. Cons -Some puzzles are either too hard or not explained well at all. -Saw a spelling error (nit picky I know but noticeable) -Very short game - completed in 2 hours.

Unplayable game. The first 2 games in these series are ok, but the rest is is just bad. HOG's are a nightmare, since the game doesn't recognize anything you click. And you can't skip them. This must be the worst Hidden Object game I have ever played.