Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel (Hotel Collector's Edition)

More of a mixed rating than an outright downvote. This looks like a hidden-object puzzle adventure game, but it's not. There were no hidden object scenes. The closest was finding 9 parchments in a bookcase and items barely visible in the background. Puzzles were on the easy side but I liked them well enough. Originally, this was known as just "Hotel" and was a standard point-and-click adventure with a visible character you could move around. This was eventually changed to a more casual and faster first-person adventure. Both versions were included. This 3d-rendered game looked like it was made in the 90s for the PS2 instead of 2010 for the PC. I did like the 3d environments of the hotel, not so much outside of it. The story became quite silly, in a bad way, in the last third of the game. The dialogues were kind of awkward but were not orthographically incorrect. I liked that you could combine items in the inventory which is not a given in this type of game. I liked the list of tasks and integrated hint system. I finished in around 2 hours on the intermediate difficulty. If you like adventures and can get this very cheap, there are worse alternatives. Much better ones too.

I think the mixed reviews are people who are confused, this game is 15 years old originally, and this is a remastered & og collectors edition. Someone such as myself who bought this when it first came out on disk back in 2010 I believe. I still have the original disk and I can always appreciate a remastered on a game I had good memories with. If there is one thing I would complain about, would be having all the 3d models stripped from the remastered version is sad, they are replaced with pre-rendered images, I would have rather had seen the game with higher quality models, textures and animations instead of pre-rendered images.

Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel – Collector’s Edition is a supernatural mystery adventure developed and published by Cateia Games that blends hidden-object gameplay, puzzle-solving, and detective storytelling into a classic casual adventure experience. Set within an elegant yet unsettling hotel built upon the remains of an ancient Templar stronghold, the game immediately establishes an atmosphere of intrigue and suspense. What begins as an investigation into a missing necklace gradually transforms into a much larger mystery involving secret organizations, paranormal events, forgotten legends, and long-buried secrets. The premise may sound familiar to fans of the genre, but it is presented with enough enthusiasm and mystery to keep players engaged throughout the journey. The story follows detective Bridget Brightstone, whose search for clues leads her through a variety of mysterious locations connected to the hotel and its dark past. One of the game's strengths lies in how it slowly expands its narrative scope. Rather than revealing everything at once, the plot introduces new discoveries piece by piece, encouraging players to continue exploring and solving puzzles to uncove…

delayed review - i have played this game about 3 - 4 times - it is old style (lots of reading) but i enjoyed it.

This game felt like a fever dream, and I really liked it! The plot starts as something serious at first, but then it becomes really weird and the game acknowledges it. The absurdity genuinenely made me laugh. Amazing!

https://youtu.be/7v-7firuk-4 Oddly constructed puzzles provide little logic between steps resulting players to take leaps of faith which are hardly rewarding.