Dark & Eerie Games Thread

Hi tesamoine!

Personally speaking...I don't even know why I keep buying games featuring the Dumb-Dumb 
family.  

I have a notebook of passwords around here, somewhere. Otherwise, I would never remember them because I CRS!

Hi Tesamoine! Great to see you back.



Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to inform you, if you haven't already noticed it, that the Daily Deal today sounds dark eerie and downright gross. i.e. just what you all love. 

To quote blackwaterrules,

"The creep factor in this game is off the chart. It is dark, eerie, creepy, gory, gross, just the way I like it."


But be warned, many like me will be unable to play it because, again quoting BWR: There is a slaughter of a beautiful pet by a hideous demon" 

Not this week, thanks Big Fish. And, thank you BWR, for the warning. Several other reviews didn't even mention it.

That is good to know. I'll pass. No slaughtered pets for me. If you can't make a game creepy and eerie without that, then you don't deserve my money. 

Sorry, not sorry!

Um.... what is the game we are talking about? Mystery of the Elephant?


Yup... just checked. It's Mystery of the Elephant. 

Wow, I'm playing Echoes of the Past: Wolf Healer and what a yawnfest it is!

You have to change your "hand" into a wolf's paw to accomplish certain tasks. Heck, I haven't left castle grounds yet and I'm already bored to tears.
Our little girl character has fallen into a mud puddle and I'm now trying to find clothes for her. 

Geesh, Orneon, what in the world's happened to your fun, innovative games? Really, I'm not all about CE Bling... morphing objects, achievements, collectibles, etc., but I do like an interesting storyline.

Oh well, I'm glad I only got the SE with an expiring PCC.

And, truthfully, I'm having a difficult time finding games to use my PCCs on. Until the newly owned BFG releases more SEs, I'm going to quit buying so many CEs.
It makes absolutely no sense to accumulate PCs or PCCs when you can't find a good HOG SE.

Nothing against TMs, M3s, Strategy, Builders, and so on... I'm just waiting on a good HOG SE.

Y'all don't go ballistic on me because I said that, please.

Yeah,  I saw that and decided to pass.

On dj's recommendation,  I tried HH:  Death Sentence.  I bought it yesterday
with the BOGO and really am enjoying it.
Which is surprising,   compared to my incredible dislike of the last one.  

I am playing with headphones on and at one point I heard this woman singing.  
Nice touch.
Also,   I am at the point in the game where the case I came across reminds me of
one of Agatha  Christie's  Miss Marple stories.    

The only crabby observation I can make  (and this is not the only game guilty of this)
is the Black Bar comments.
How can our intrepid Detective not know who the person we've just found is  when we've
just gathered up information on them, (you know its not good news for that person) yet know about someone who we didn't even  know existed yet?


And why do they not have a clue as to the state we will find such person?    

Also---I said this before---why do we need gloves when the hands are already
wearing gloves?
I think the dev's  have a warped sense of humor at times.  

dj-Hi there--I wished you had mentioned that game earlier.  I would have told you
to not bother.

I found I could not finish the demo cause l,  too,  also found it boring.

Have you played the other 2 games you mentioned earlier--I think you mentioned
the 4 Horsemen?
Anyway,   you will like those two you mentioned.

I took a look--yup, Lost Legends: the 4 Horsemen was good. I even finished
the Bonus game--which is saying something.

I really did enjoy the latest HH. Of course, nothing will ever come close to HH: Charles Dexter Ward. That was one scary game, for real!

I'm debating putting EotP: Yawnfest aside and tackling MCF: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove but those killer mechanical puzzles scare me and I don't want a headache today.

That's okay, luvtoread. Normally, I'm a huge fan of the Echoes series and I have all of them.

In fact, I was a huge fan of Orneon's games.


Yes, I do have The Four Horsemen. I love this developer (formerly an Alawar developer).

Have you ever noticed that sometimes, the black bar comments disappear before you can even read them?
Okay, so I'm busy looking at my pretty scenery and I get the "objectives/tasks" box, maybe an achievement/collectible box or a location text, or my "helper" butts in...well, by the time I get done reading all that, my black bar comment is gone.

That has happened to me a lot is Phantasmat 3, DJ. It's frustrating, and perhaps has lead to some of my confusion... though I'm sure not all of it.

For example:

Sure, spoiler. Why not? Not that it will make the game may any more or less sense! :

I just don't know. Nor do I care at this point. It was an entertaining, but illogical game. Just my cuppa!

I think you're right, Esme. Maybe I lose somewhat important info because I never got a chance to read it. I will check my journal/diary to see if something's in there or not.

Okay, I'm still playing EotP and though I'm not liking the gimmick of changing my hand into a wolf's paw nor am I in love with the storyline, I do like the variety of HO scenes and the gameplay progression.
Also, I think the game is well-developed with attention paid to small details.
It's not on the easy side, but it's not so hard I'm getting frustrated.

I did beta Cadenza: The Kiss of Death last night and I really liked it. The story involves the same jazz club from the first game (The Jazz Pepper Club, I think that's the name), murder mystery intrigue, and a certain femme fatale with a deadly kiss....
I'm looking forward to the release! (And I loved the first Cadenza!)

You are a better woman than I am then, DJ. I have a personal grudge against the journals for some reason. I almost never open them, though I do open maps if I can quick jump that way. 

I do not know why. It's one of my special "quirks" that make me so very ME! 


Right now I'm playing Fishdom 3 because I don't want to start a new game and have to pay attention to anything silly like plot or directions. Pfft!

What do you guys play when you're not playing your regular games? (If that makes any sense) I guess I mean as "filler" games. Anything fun you can recommend?

My go-to's are the Chocolatier games, FaeVerse Alchemy, Cave Quest (I've played the heck out of that game!), Runespell Overture (it's a battle solitaire game, very well-presented), Warlock: Master of the Arcane, Civ II, etc.

As far as the journals go, it's probably because the devs seem to insist upon adding spoilers in there! >_<

I'm with you esme, I don't usually remember to open the journals etc unless the game specifically requires you to - codes recorded there, map there, or achievements.

I don't know why either, except that arrogant side of me that figures she knows all she needs to to do anything - you know, the 'when all else fails, read the instructions" me.

I also have a go-to "time out" game. In those rare moments when I am not obsessing over my dragon database, I play Midnight Castle. I like this one (more than Nightfall - Dupin's F2P game) because it is very easy, has no plot to speak of, and can be done for just a moment, or for an hour or so if you wish. I play this about 1 hour per day, and have never even felt tempted to spend any money. It is very repetitious, and moves forward very slowly if you don't use $$$, but that's kinda the point, isn't it?

genki--I am so stuck on Runespell.    I have to defeat the Tutelary Warden that starts
off with  one thousand    points..or whatever you call them.
I know how I am suppose to defeat it....doing it is a different story!!

One of my go-to games is Scrabble.  I have actually beat the computer a few times!

A new Cadenza- --I really enjoyed the first one.  

I am now playing Hans Christian Andersen's  Tin Soldier.   What a fun game.
I realized I bought the first Christmas game last year and never played
it.  I will have to remedy that situation!

lol, I don't like to check my journal cause it's mostly rehashed information, though I will check it to make sure I haven't missed anything.
Also, if it's one of those flashing, jumping around journals, I'll click it just to stop it from flashing or jumping around. That gets annoying after awhile and for some reason, I can't ignore it!

My "filler" games are usually a solitaire game (can't remember which one I've got now since I gave up on the other one), Arizona Rose 2 or Mystery PI: Curious Cove (I think that's the name, heck, I don't pay attention to the titles).  
I like all those Pop-Cap, Spin-Top games. Only HOs and lots of them!

Oh, I forgot about the journals that jump and blink and flash for attention. So needy. I hate those games. I get nagged enough all day by people and things that want my attention. I don't need it in a game that I'm using to escape reality! LOL

I'm happy about a new Cadenza. I enjoyed the first one. Perhaps not as much as everyone else did, but I did like it. 

I love HOPs, but I hate those Spin-Top, Pop-Cap games! They're just not pretty enough!!! Why should a visually more appealing game be more difficult to put together? It was my first and still is, my grumble with HOPAs. Why can't we have simple story lines, with loads of beautiful HOP scenes, without all that difficult puzzle stuff and detective work?

lol, Justie, you and I would be the only ones who'd buy them!

Everybody else would think they're too boring!

I always find it funny that I started playing HO games that were straight HO, but the more I played and found the HOPA games, the more I liked the puzzle/adventure part... though I've never played a straight adventure game that I know of. And I'd love to successfully play an LFA game, but when I do, I'm hopelessly, helplessly lost. I still have visions of poor Watson walking in circles and bumping into things because I didn't know what to do. 

Not all LF games are like SH--what I mean is that there are those that are easier to
manuever the characters. I have played enough of them and even I find it hard to
walk those two around! I do admit that I really enjoy those SH games.
I can relate to being annoyed by those journals that "nag" at you after you read the info.
But there are some games where if you do not open them, you miss something that was
stuck in them that you need. Or, there was one game that had information in it that
apparently was a future know it all, as it had info on stuff I had not even come across
yet. I cannot remember the name, just it annoyed me.

I see there is a new game out today where a daughter has to be saved by a witch.
Again.
I also see there are lots of there more posts in the tech problems section than in the
reviews (dj pointed that out in Genki's game post).

So, will pass that up for now. Guess the Witch wins this one.

Yes, luvtoread, I've seen those futuristic journals, too!

Please be sure to demo Mystery Tales 2 before purchasing, even if you beta-tested it.

I won't be demo'ing, I still have a backlog of games to play.

I'm still playing wit da fishes. 


I actually had to go in and look up how to pass one level on the FB forums. I had to go in and adjust the difficulty settings! It's hard! 

I probably have too much emotionally invested in the game too. The pet fish talk to you and say silly things and I back-sass them.  Then they want food and you have to clean their tanks... I might as well clean my own house! Though I can't do that while wrapped up in an afghan on my couch. Still, they are needy little buggers.

I should probably find something dark and eerie to play. It's less stress!

esme you have absolutely the best smilies lol. Had to add the boot to my private collection lol

LOL Thanks, Justie!

I just use my google-fu skills and search for emoticons. 

I enjoy it probably way too much. LOL


PS. Is anyone interested in the best lower-fat chicken noodle soup recipe I've ever had? I'm not sure if anyone reads and uses my recipe posts. LOL Just let me know!