Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition

I generally like these HOG/puzzle/adventure hybrid games, but this was one of the weaker entries I have played. The HOG scenes were about average or below average, compared to other games I have played in the genre. The main thing I disliked in this game was the puzzles: They are either so easy that they barely feel like puzzles at all, or they are the type of puzzle where trial and error is just as effective as (or more effective than) carefully planning out your solution. I don't like those types of puzzles because I find that approaching them as actual puzzles involves more frustration than they are worth. As for the adventure elements (inventory puzzles), I found them below average as well: The solutions were never illogical, but there were often too many plausible options to choose from. I lost count of the number of times I had to choose between multiple seemingly viable tools in my inventory to accomplish a task, only one of which the game accepts. Similarly, there were also times when the game refused perfectly reasonable solutions because I didn't yet have the specific tool it wanted me to use. If you can use a screwdriver to strip away loose bark, you should be able to u…

Good HOG Game.I Love it when the Villan gets away.7/10

Spells work great. My socks vanished. One rune stole them. I now collect runes and laundry. Worth every cursed minute.

Great puzzle game, beautiful scenarios and story. Can be completed within a few hours. Very fun. Recommend!

An interesting take on a classic HOG formula where in addition to the normal hidden object scenes you can also move things around and put them back in their places. Other than that it's a classic, nice HOG game with some fun puzzles.

Overall, this game is a quality Hidden Object game with very detailed art and lots of extras. The story of the game is straight forward enough and it wasn't hard to follow or anything. You get small updates as you finish major sections or key events, but luckily for the most part you are left to explore and do puzzles on your own. The art I found to be very high-quality, certainly newer looking than some other games with a more animated art style--which there is nothing wrong with the games, but if a game looks good like this I have to say it's still impressive. The cutscenes are also well animated and integrated into the static scenes very well. Music was background music, fine to listen to but not very memorable. The games I found to be mostly OK. There is a good amount of both Hidden Object puzzles and more traditional puzzles. I found some of these to be fairly difficult for different reasons. Not anything that kept me from finishing the game, but sometimes I would just call it a night and take a fresh look at the puzzle the next day. The Hidden Object games had a strange design I hadn't seen before where when you find an object, the name is the bottom can be replaced with…