Ominous Tales: The Forsaken Isle

Ominous Tales: The Forsaken Isle is a Hidden Object puzzle game, the type you normally see on mobile app stores or even as browser apps. There's literally hundreds of these on Steam, mostly published by Artifex Mundi, many of them free on mobile app stores, but this one will cost you money on Steam. There's a 19th century magical/mystery/horror theme to the game, but this is a just a veneer over a tired and overdone set of hidden object minigames and Adobe Flash tier puzzles, wrapped together with a bunch of static screens that you "move" through by tapping your finger on your iPhone screen. While these kinds of games are popular amongst casual gamers, it's difficult to argue this is a great value proposition as a PC game, especially considering the price of this compared to the hundreds of free HOGs on the mobile app stores. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this ha…

There's not really much you can get out of this game that you can't already get from other Hidden Object games

excellent

Game has its low points; selecting items in a point click area has been difficult due to poor lighting and no magnification. Some items are so minute that it is hard to see it, even on a blown up screen. The part which annoys me the most is the "SKIP" button is located at the top of the screen. I tried to avoid it but accidentally hit it once while navigating [very annoying!]. Good story but the clues are not always easily achieved. This story took my attention fully! If I play it again I'll try to remember to take screen shots.

Fantastically Awful. I loved every second of this game

This game is just not notable in any way among the field of HOGs and I would not recommend seeking it out. There's nothing that I can single out as particularly good in it, but nor is anything particularly bad. It's just supremely average and shorter than most.