Mountain Trap 2: Under the Cloak of Fear

"Mountain Trap 2: Under the Cloak of Fear" is a Hidden Object puzzle game, the type you normally see on mobile app stores or even as browser apps. There's literally hundreds of these on Steam, mostly published by Artifex Mundi, many of them free on mobile app stores, but this one will cost you money on Steam. There's a English countryside detective theme to the game, but this is a just a veneer over a tired and overdone set of hidden object minigames and Adobe Flash tier puzzles, wrapped together with a bunch of static screens that you "move" through by tapping your finger on your iPhone screen. While these kinds of games are popular amongst casual gamers, it's difficult to argue this is a great value proposition as a PC game, especially considering the price of this compared to the hundreds of free HOGs on the mobile app stores. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of thi…

I didn`t play, I used it to get cards

bad game

Very slow and easy, bad graphics

This one is way more polished than its prequel which was pretty meh and quite a chore to play through. Mountain Trap 2 however with the additional QoL feautres, is alot more casual and doesn't outstay it's welcome. Picked it up for less than a buck, and definetly got my money's worth out of it. Kinda mediocre but solid gameplay.

Mountain Trap 2: Under the Cloak of Fear is a slow-burn mystery adventure that leans heavily into atmosphere, observation, and classic point-and-click investigation rather than action or spectacle. Developed by Color Brush Studio and published by RunServer, the game continues the narrative thread established in the first Mountain Trap, expanding its eerie small-town setting and doubling down on hidden-object gameplay as the primary means of storytelling. It is clearly designed for players who enjoy methodical puzzle solving and a sense of creeping unease built through environment and implication rather than overt horror. The story unfolds in the troubled town of Wilshere, where a string of unsettling disappearances has left the community gripped by fear and suspicion. Rather than presenting a fast-moving or cinematic plot, the game invites players to piece together the mystery gradually by exploring locations, questioning characters, and uncovering fragments of information embedded in everyday surroundings. The narrative tone is somber and restrained, focusing on psychological tension and the lingering presence of something wrong beneath the town’s quiet exterior. This approach cr…