So Much Stuff

I really love how simple and yet addictive [i]So Much Stuff[/i] is. Essentially, it’s a non-narrative hidden object game (there is no story or any kind of narration), perhaps better described as [i]a collection of mini-games[/i]. These are split into eighteen chapters of four puzzles each, with an additional eight chapters for the Collector’s Edition, totaling a bit over 100 individual levels to solve. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3018504160 Each chapter has a unique theme and the levels included contain only images / items belonging to that theme. They’re quite varied, ranging from food-related themes (vegetable garden, kitchen, candy shop) to cultural ones (Ancient Japan, Greece, China, Old Mexico, Nepal, etc.), but also all sorts of other crafts such as sewing, clock working, painting, etc. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3018504124 The mini-games you can encounter are: [list] [*]Sort / Pairs - my personal favorite. The player is presented with a scene in which dozens of objects are messily thrown on top of each other, and the gameplay consists in identifying pairs of identical items to remove them from the scene. The objects ar…

While I enjoyed and appreciate the premise of this game, I found it much too easy and way too repetitive for each level to really enjoy it. The dev's write up mentioned different levels of difficulty, but I didn't see where that was a choice, unless you had to play through three different times, and trust me, I don't know if anyone could withstand that. Perhaps some will enjoy the simplicity of it and the lack of different types of challenges. And that's great, we're all different. I think they might add some sort of count to the find the difference challenges so it's known how many there are. I don't think I've ever played a game where the achievements required the player to use hints. And I must say that using the hint button in this game wasn't a plus for me. The hint generates on the screen your working, without any sort of flash or notable trail and as a result, most of the time you cannot see it. There aren't too many find the differences (thank heaven) and the placement puzzles have the most variety. I encountered problems with the circular puzzle (just the circle move one). It wouldn't let me move the circles after about five minutes. I could use the hint button…

A fun game where you complete category chapters, each with 4 parts: Hidden Object, Sort by Pairs, Swap to Complete Image and Jigsaw (there are a few Spot the Differences in place of the Swap chapters which I prefer). This game is similar to the Twistingo games with beautiful photo scenes and cleverly hidden items. There's 18 standard Chapters and then CE chapters. I really like this game because it's different from the usual HO games. An enjoyable way to pass the time and I will be looking for more!

Quite a retro HOG with 18 chapters of 4 different games each in the main section and 8 bonus chapters each containing 4 games in the CE content. Other CE stuff is a music player, several wallpapers of junkpile stuff, and a few extra picture frames of collectibles. However, the collectibles are all grouped together into 4 "rooms" which you can view at any time, so that part at least doesn't really look like much extra stuff. Lots of stuff to rearrange or pick up in five, not four, play modes. Sort is a clutter game where you click on matching pairs of stuff to remove. So Much Stuff is classic HOS stuff but with the list buried in the stuff itself, which gradually unfolds as you dig through the stuff. Click to Swap is a jigsaw puzzle variant of clicking on any 2 pieces until all the stuff in the picture is in the correct orientation. Jigsaw is a traditional jigsaw puzzle, but the pieces sure are oddly shaped stuff. The fifth play mode doesn't appear until quite late in the game and is Difference (spot the differences in the paired images of stuff). In the hidden object games you must also pick up all the fragments of the bonus item, which are mostly buried under everything e…

I like this game a lot. It's the quintessential "mom game". It's got nice art and relaxing music. It's always great to pick up and play for a few minutes. My favorite game is Spot the Difference -- it's a shame there aren't more of them -- and my least favorite is "Click to Swap", because the images can be hard to parse sometimes. I also like the default sorting/So Much Stuff games. The jigsaws are OK. That being said, I'm not 100% confident that this game wasn't AI generated...

I love this game series. It is great for days that I am too tired to do anything else and don't want to just sit and watch TV. It is something that I feel good about my grandkids playing too, since it sort of uses their brains. I just wish that they had more levels or levels you could buy as a DLC to expand the game without having to buy a complete new one, especially since I have already bought all three games.