Criminal Archives: Murder in the Pages Collector's Edition
Do Games Limited · 2024 · Hidden Object, Puzzle, Point & Click, 2D, Detective
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 11
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About Criminal Archives: Murder in the Pages Collector's Edition
A gripping detective series filled with mystery and riddles awaits you! You are a crime reporter, striving to capture in your book the most unusual cases you have encountered. You help the San Francisco police solve murders and catch criminals to make life in the city a little better. If people doubted it, now, they just have to look no further than your articles - monsters do exist, and they are among us! Meanwhile, Secret societies are not slumbering, and the owl-masked killer continues to lead the police by the nose! A prominent writer Damian Crow comes to you for help since all the mayhem seems to have slipped through to the city streets right from the pages of his crime novels. Can you solve all the murders and stop the villains? Or maybe the master of the pen himself masterminded this bloody nightmare? It all falls to you to find out the truth! Don't let this city swallow another innocent soul! Challenge your investigator skills in this spectacular new Hidden-Object Puzzle Adventure!
This Collector's Edition includes:
📜 Your own choices!
Dialogue options are shaping the outcome of the story. Your choices matter! Join forces with prominent writer Damian Crow to unravel the mystery behind the owl-masked killer. Can you separate fact from fiction before it's too late?
📜 A variety of achievements!
Conduct your own investigation by solving intricate puzzles, tricky riddles and playing various mini-games. You need to solve the mystery by exploring various locations, seeking for hidden objects and interviewing suspects. Unlock all of the achievements to highlight your success!
📜 Over 100 tricky puzzles!
Find out and collect unusual hidden objects, decipher cryptic clues, and put your detective skills to the test while solving multitude of brain teasers and puzzles! No clue will go unnoticed!
📜 Collectible items!
This exciting mystery story is filled with various clues and mysterious items that you need to find in order to advance in the investigation! Find collectibles at each crime scene and seek for hidden objects. You'll have to be very attentive to gather the entire collection!
This Collector's Edition includes:
📜 Your own choices!
Dialogue options are shaping the outcome of the story. Your choices matter! Join forces with prominent writer Damian Crow to unravel the mystery behind the owl-masked killer. Can you separate fact from fiction before it's too late?
📜 A variety of achievements!
Conduct your own investigation by solving intricate puzzles, tricky riddles and playing various mini-games. You need to solve the mystery by exploring various locations, seeking for hidden objects and interviewing suspects. Unlock all of the achievements to highlight your success!
📜 Over 100 tricky puzzles!
Find out and collect unusual hidden objects, decipher cryptic clues, and put your detective skills to the test while solving multitude of brain teasers and puzzles! No clue will go unnoticed!
📜 Collectible items!
This exciting mystery story is filled with various clues and mysterious items that you need to find in order to advance in the investigation! Find collectibles at each crime scene and seek for hidden objects. You'll have to be very attentive to gather the entire collection!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise the game's detective storyline and character development, appreciating that it focuses on real mysteries rather than supernatural themes. However, the game suffers from significant technical and design issues including blurry visuals, tiny interactive objects that are difficult to locate, broken puzzles where items don't appear without hints, a confusing map interface, and most frustratingly, locked dialogue options that require additional DLC purchases—problems that remain unfixed despite the game's age.
To see your crime novels coming to life would be any novelist's nightmare. In the third installment of the Criminal Archives series, a young novelist named Damian Crow seeks to find a connection between the recent murders, which looked exactly like how Damian had written in his novels. Together and with Melenda's support from the police, you went to investigate the murders and discover a huge twist. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3420261799 Since this is one of their recent games, they've introduced the stars system, where your choices will determine which ending you'll get for each chapter. I've mentioned in the 4th game that the 6th star option doesn't work for me. I discovered from the forums that you need to purchase the DLC or Delux edition in order to access those options, which will open extra areas for the story and give you more information about it. The achievements are not included in the DLCs. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3421050381 The soundtracks were phenomenal and fit the mysterious atmosphere of the story. The character's styles and personalities are intriguing. However, I was confused when I saw one of the charac…24 found this helpful
My wife and I have played hundreds of HOG games. This is the worst game we've ever played! The pictures are very fuzzy and out of focus. The map is very strange and non-standard in how it works. It took us a couple of hours of play to realize that there was a button to change pages on the map. Some of the puzzles are extremely hard...and we're really good a puzzles! The items and their use just didn't make sense most of the time. And to top it off, some of the "find the object" games are outright broken: the object doesn't show up until you click the space where it belongs (which you MUST find by using a hint.) We NEVER quit a game without finishing it. Until now. But this game was so frustrating that, even set on casual mode, and using the hint continuously, we finally gave up. I would not play this game if they paid me to.16 found this helpful
And again it has a bug, that probably will never be fixed.9 found this helpful
The game is broken and considering how long its been out and this seems to have been a long term problem it will never be fixed, please skip this one. The best dialog options to get the most content and points are locked and there appears to be no way to open them. Don't waste your time. Edit: Found out these options are locked behind PAYING MORE MONEY. Yeah I double down on DO NOT waste your money on this game.3 found this helpful
Decent game definitely really long and lots to do. Only real complaint is Literally EVERY hotspot and object is very tiny! It makes no sense why they would make the objects that small. Like they h8 the visually impaired. My vision is fine thank God, but it's still extremely difficult. Otherwise very good game. I especially like that it's not all supernatural nonsense, but rather good detective game with real people and lots of characters. Bravo!2 found this helpful
good game is there more
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