Haunted Hotel: Room 18 Collector's Edition

The more hidden object games I play, the more they all seem to follow the same formula: a basic story, beautiful scenery, bad animations, and very cheesy voice-overs. And Haunted Hotel: Room 18 is no exception. The story is as basic as it gets, with no special surprises here. The hidden object sections were good. Some of the actual puzzles (mini-games) were quite challenging. Depending on the difficulty you play on, all of them can be skipped in case you're stuck. As for the point'n click part, I know logic is usually far-fetched in these types of games. But holy Batman! It's as if the devs used a die to decide which objects should open a door or a trunk. As long as it looked nice, I guess. The game did crashed to the desktop twice during my playthrough. Loading the game back up always allowed me to continue from where the crash happened, so I didn't lose any progress. According to some reviews, the bonus chapter is bugged, but I got through without issues. I liked it for the puzzles and the 'spooky' story, so I'm giving it a thumbs up.

Good fun

It's not bad, albeit short. Problem is the bonus part is broken where it has you picking a lock with 3 pins, it just goes unresponsive, not frozen, but you just can't really do anything. It's overall crap. These newer HOGs are starting to be junk.

Some of the puzzles were difficult to figure out even with the instructions. I was able to complete this game in just under three hours. It's a pretty quick pretty standard HOG. Not my favorite.

Very interesting game, really liked the story and the visuals. Give it a go I´d say.

Fantastic graphics and atmosphere. Spent most of the game gawking at every screen. Some technical issues- it seems that trying to interact with the game while it's loading can result in it crashing to desktop. Story was a fun romp with the recurring antagonist being pretty entertaining.