Howlville: The Dark Past
N-Tri Studio · 2018 · Casual, Adventure, Indie, Hidden Object, Great Soundtrack
PC
Mixed69% · 48 📈 Making a comeback 78%
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About Howlville: The Dark Past
Many years ago an artifact was found in one of the mines near the small town of Howlville. The government asked scientists to examine it. Dr. Joseph was one of those scientists. Strange events began to happen in the underground lab, and something went wrong, causing a strong earthquake. The experiment was halted and classified, while the territory of the town was closed. Nobody knew what had happened to Joseph, and he was listed as a missing person. Fifteen years later his daughter Rachel is on the verge of solving the mystery, but somebody is doing everything possible to keep her from succeeding. Rachel is institutionalized in a secret mental hospital. She starts having horrible nightmares in which her father is pleading for her help and talking about a looming catastrophe. She manages to escape. Fleeing from the police, she reaches Howlville.
Features:
Challenging mini-games
Wide range of difficulty levels
Intriguing story
44 quest levesl
25 hidden-object levels
Features:
Challenging mini-games
Wide range of difficulty levels
Intriguing story
44 quest levesl
25 hidden-object levels
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A short older style puzzle, but fun to play. HOGs were interactive and clever. Mini puzzles were puzzling and different. You play Rachel whose scientist father has been missing for 15 years. Lovely music and good clean graphics. Definitely buy on sale. No bugs. 7/1012 found this helpful
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This is cool little sci-fi HO game. The puzzles are challenging and so are the HO scenes, but not too much. It is old, so the graphics are sub-par and the resolution is standard. No hint/skip penalties for those 100% achievers.
Frustrating. Things don't light up or change cursor sometimes for no reason, and sometimes things are mislabeled in hidden object scenes. Multiple items of the same name also appear. Some puzzles are frustrating just to make you spend more time on them, and there's no real story. I just can't recommend this one.
I've bought this on a really cheap bundle and taking into account this is a really old game, I really enjoyed it. I played in Normal Mode and there's no help at all (I don't use hints). It's a very basic HOG, almost no cut scenes or voice over, you'll basically be looking for objects. I really enjoyed it though, it was very relaxing. I also enjoyed the minigames, could do all of the except the last one, was pretty hard. I recomend it in a bundle o in a big sale if you are looking for a VERY basic and old game.
Hidden object puzzles have several common issues. This one suffers from several of them. A big one is multiple objects in the picture matching the clue (I counted 6 wheels in a picture, they only asked for 1) another is regionally or wrongly named items (A gamepad called a joystick, a telescope where it said microscope). This game also has a few less common issues, formerly clickable areas sometimes still flash as if they were active, and some spots to click and zoom in for collecting items have no way of knowing they are there.
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