Family Mysteries 3: Criminal Mindset

Just like its predecessors in the series, this is a very disappointing hidden object game, especially considering what you can normally expect from Artifex Mundi HOGs. It is extremely linear, with only 1-3 scenes available to you at any time and the minigames are pretty much all really easy except one which unless you know your zodiac symbols you are gonna have to go look them up to solve it (then it is easy to solve). On top of that it also very heavily suffers from HOG logic. I don't mind a little bit of it, but it is just too much in this one. I wouldn't bother, there is better HOGs out there. Linux version of the game works without any issues. You can find my review for Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/MouseWithBeer/recommended/1225070]here[/url] and Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/MouseWithBeer/recommended/1247190]here[/url].

Relaxing hidden object/detective game ... if you like these games, it's worth the small price.

A lot of HOG games are always a bit contrived in the puzzles, you just kind of have to ignore the logic why there are all of these special locks and puzzles all over the place. But this one is completely insane when you think of what your character does. You start out breaking a key in your closet. The solution? Create an acid and melt the lock obviously. When you arrive at your new job, the driver that took you there doesn't let you in, that would obviously be too easy. Instead you break into one of your presumed new collegues car, steal their tablet, use it as a screen for the broken door camera (just go with it). Later when you arrive at a house, without knowing something is actually wrong, you drill the lock on a car trunk, get a crowbar and break into a window. The lab rat that you are also fight off terrorists and hardend criminals in hand to hand combat, because why not... The quite frankly ridiculos plot aside, this is just a very mid HOG, The puzzles tend to repeat themselves and there are seldom any new ones.

excellent

Finally, this terrible series has come to an end, and the last chapter does not disappoint, maintaining the sewage level of the entire trilogy. What more can I say, if you've played the previous ones and somehow liked them, you won't be disappointed with this one, but I feel sorry for your low expectations. However, if you're like me, shocked at how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the previous ones were and didn't make my mistake of buying them all at once, then what are you even doing here? But seriously, I'm really shocked by the level of this series considering its release year, which according to Steam is 2020. Although it might have been created much earlier and the date is just there to deceive people like me. Once again, I rate this part 1 point higher than the first one and probably only because I'm used to this mediocrity, which is not a good sign. [h3]2/10[/h3]

First HOG (suitcase) is not playable at all. I don't know if it is because I'm on MacOS but screen freezes every time on first HOG. Can't quit can't click can't move cursor. Reinstall/restart doesn't work as well. This is the only artifex mundi game with this issue. I wouldn't recommend this one