Mystery P.I.™ - The New York Fortune

I'd been on the trail for months now, coffee gone colder than all my leads. The kinda case that crawls into your head and starts re-arranging the furniture. New York has a tendancy to do that to a person. Just when I thought I was out of angles it hit me, paperclip. Always is. Smoke rising out the gutter again, the streetlights flickered like they knew something they wern't saying. That's when it came to me; This case wasn't about explosions or big twists, it was about what people leave behind. Desk drawers, filing cabinets and serpents. The kinda clutter that screams guilty if you know how to listen. Every screen a crime scene, every missing object another lie, sweating under the lamp. I'd been chasing the truth so long now I didn't notice the walls closing in. Then it struck me, I was only working in 8x6, no widescreen, no achievments, no shiney modern toys to bail me out when things got rough. Just a tight little frame and the cold truth staring back at me. Game doesn't hide it, it knows what year it crawled out of, and wears it like a trench coat. You take it or you hit the bricks. But, If you stick around long enough, you find something honest hiding in t…

A childhood classic 10/10

Another installment in the Mystery PI series done and dusted! Now that I've played my way through 3 of the 4 Mystery PI available on Steam, I am still very impressed with the quality of the games. These are very no-frills Hidden Object Games. The story provides the setting and theme for the objects you will be hunting and then stays out of your way. After successfully searching from 3 to 8 scenes, you are challenged with a mini-game to complete before you move on to more searching. And there is a lot of searching! I have yet to finish an entire game in less than 10 hours. Once you complete the game, you can revisit each of the scenes and find all of the objects in the Unlimited Seek and Find mode. A lot of value for money spent, especially if you can get it on sale or bundled with other Popcap Games. Recommended.

fun and engaging

For chilling while working xD

I'm usually a HOG apologist and I'll play almost anything, but unfortunately this one is very light on plot and doesn't have the insane cutscenes or voice acting that I expect from the genre. There are about 25 hidden object scenes, and you have to keep repeating them many times in order to beat it. The assortment of scenes you have to complete to finish each level of the game also seems weirdly arbitrary, ranging from two to like, seven? I didn't finish, just getting to the point where I had played all of the unique scenes. Not a terrible game for the pure hidden object aspect, but it failed to keep my attention to the end.