The Agency of Anomalies: Mind Invasion Collector's Edition

Game doesn't work for me. I have tried it on two computers: a windows 10 machine with an nvidia card, and a windows 7 machine with ATI radeon video card. Problem identical on both: I get the opening credits, and then the "loading" screen. After about 10 seconds, I'm back to the desktop. I asked for a refund, but the game was over 2 weeks old. I buy 10 or more games when they are on sale, and they last me 2 or 3 months. To tell me to contact Big Fish Games for help is worthless. I read their technical help pages. I bought the game from Steam, not Big Fish. I have over 130 games in my library, and this is the first one that I couldn't run. Both of my computers are stock HP machines, nothing custom. I have searched the X86 steam directory for a log file, but can't find one. I don't care about the $$, I would like to play the game.

Unplayable for me. The game always crashes after the main menu. I've asked Big Fish Games for a support but they just gave me another HO game instead. I'm fine with that, but this game obviously can't get my recommendation.

I give this a reluctant thumbs-up. I purchased it in a bundle. I do recommend the bundle. The others in the series were all quite good. For this one, it was too non-sensical even for a HOG. A few of the mini-puzzles were just painful (difficult and not in a fun way). I skipped a few, which I try to never do. On the plus side, at least the puzzles weren't the same mini-puzzles seen in many other games (like you would unfortunately see in the later Artifax Mundi games). There is a map and normal hint mechanism. Tips: Play with resolution 1024x768. There is a bonus level. You won't be prompted for it. Go to the Extras after main game is done.

For the most part, I enjoyed this game. There was a mixture of the types of hidden object scenes (find objects by words, find objects by silhouette, place objects where they belong, and find misplaced objects in the scene and put them where they belong), which I thought was done well and definitely made it more enjoyable than the standard single-HO-type method. The artwork and music were decent/good and the voice acting was very good, though the lack of some animations (such as when characters were speaking) was notable. However, the game is not without its negatives. It does not support the Steam overlay. If achievements are your thing, you should know this has in-game achievements only (no Steam achievements). When "widescreen" is selected on the Options screen, the resolution is 1280x800. When "widescreen" is not selected on the Options screen, the resolution is 1024x768, and some items in the HO scenes (and some important parts in the mini-games) are partly or mostly off-screen. Lastly, there were two mini-games (the wire-crossing game and the A>B>C letter changing game) which I found to be extremely tedious and frustrating, and not enjoyable at all. After fighting wit…

I would recommend this game to anyone. 4.5 stars.

Very nice HOG - good voice acting and graphics. I thought the plot was good. The game has in-game achievements and collectibles as well as a bonus chapter. Would definitely recommend. I played with windows 10 with an nvidia card and had no problems of any kind... My only wish is that they'd have trading cards and steam achievements for the achievements already in the game.