Forgotten Places: Lost Circus

Forgotten Places: Lost Circus is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. It's 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 spooky circus 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. This is significantly worse in quality than the usual copy + pasted Artifex Mundi mobile apps. 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, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to …

Forgotten Places: Lost Circus takes the familiar hidden-object adventure formula and places it inside an abandoned circus filled with strange imagery, forgotten memories, and an underlying supernatural mystery. Developed and published by Sungift Games, the experience follows Joy, a woman repeatedly troubled by vivid dreams about a mysterious circus. These nightmares leave her deeply unsettled because the location feels strangely familiar despite having no obvious place in her remembered life. Her search for answers eventually leads her to the real circus from her dreams, where exploring its deserted grounds becomes a journey into a past she can no longer consciously recall. The circus setting is the most distinctive part of the experience. Instead of relying on ordinary houses, streets, or generic fantasy environments, the game uses abandoned attractions, colorful decorations, peculiar machinery, toys, costumes, and other circus-related objects to establish its identity. A stormy night makes the deserted location feel particularly isolated, while the contrast between the circus's traditionally cheerful purpose and its present state of decay creates a pleasantly unsettling mood. It…

Regained Castle was solid but this is very amateurish. Some decent puzzles but no exploration, no backtracking, poor quality HOG scenes.

This is a fun little game. It's a simple, straight-forward hidden objects game with little puzzles and mini-games. The story is sweet and simple. If you are looking for a challenge, this isn't it. It's casual, that's it. Since I couldn't care less about achievements, I did skip through the spinning plates puzzle, . The puzzle is fine, but a bit obnoxious because it's near impossible to keep those plates all going at once, at least for me. Otherwise, nice little game.

objects are too small, colors are too flat and cannot discern objects. buy at $0.50 only

This is a HOG game, plain and simple. If you like that type of puzzle - I mean Really like it - then you will enjoy this game because that is 99% of the puzzles. I had to take a break because I was getting a little tired of the monotony. The game switches between the spooky atmospheric abandoned circus - and the very cheery and garish real circus. I honestly preferred the spooky scenes and rushed through the rest when I could, turning down the chipper music. I'm intrigued enough by the story to finish it, but I'm definitely not going to finish it in one sittlng like I would most other games of this kind. ^-^