Hi Everyone,

I'm not much off the individuals but more of the series type.

Elixir of Immortality
The Fog


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Series:
Awakening: Moonfell wood
Awakening: The Dreamless castle
Awakening: The Goblin Kingdom
Awakening: The Skyward Castle
Awakening: The Sunhook Spire

Brink of Consciousness Dorian Gray Syndrome

Empress of The Deep : The Darkest Secret
Empress of The Deep 2: Song of the Blue Whale
Empress of The Deep 3: Legacy of The Phoenix

Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake
Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull
Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst

Mystery Tracker's: Black Isle
Mystery Tracker's: Rain cliff
Mystery Tracker's: Silent Hollow
Mystery Tracker's: The Four Aces
Mystery Tracker's: The Void

I've played many but these are most of my favorites.

Bye
Tainedfury

Taintedfury, I deleted Scratches and Syberia from your lists since those are not casuals. Be sure and add them to the Adventure Game list we do later in the year!

marian, i bought reflection: equilibrium on your recommendation. ce is terrific, long, with nice graphics, unusual hog scenes, and challenging mini-games. a great value. i will look at the others in this series now. thanks! (sorry, i'm one-armed for now and can't type capitals)

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Try the demo of Reflections of Life: Dark Architect and see if you like it.

I had at least 10 series that i have enjoyed and it was difficult to pick five only but here they are:-


Dana Knightsone Novels
Mystery Case Files
Puppetshow
The Fall Trilogy
Weird Park


The 20 individual games I top rate are :-

Azada
Death & Betrayal in Romania (Dana Knightsone)
Enlightenus
Fear for Sale: Mystery of McInroy Manor
Green Moon
Haunted Halls: Fears From Childhood
House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets
Mystery Case files: Madame Fate
Mystery Case files: Dire Grove
Mystery Case files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove
Mystery Trackers: The Void
Pahelika: Revelations
Puppetshow: Mystery of Joyville
Secrets of the Dragon Wheel
Shiver: Vanishing Hitchhiker
Shiver: Moonlit Grove
Stray Souls: Dollshouse Story
The Fall Trilogy (part 1)
True Fear: Forsaken Souls
Weird Park: Broken Tune

Hi Ana,

Okay thanks for that will do:)

Jenny

Hi all:)

I just halfway through the first off the Drawn series and so far i am really enjoying it as it's a different change from the other game's i have played so far.

P.S I just purchased the squeal to it Drawn: Dark Flight Collector's Edition in which i am looking forward too it...

Starcom's suggestion of Echoes of the Past: Kingdom of Despair is a good game in spite of its off-putting name.

Reenie, our taste is similar because I have used your posts on various games to find interesting ones before.

Thanks, 8dog. I will check it out!

Jenny100 used to have a series of essays on casual games on the main page. Any chance the essays will be updated? I often used them to find games, which is why I post the question in this thread.

meryl, i just played the trial game for true fear - forsaken, based on your recommendation. very different, creepy but fun. i think i will buy that one. thanks for the heads up.

Beyond: Light Advent
Dark Realm: Queen of Flames
Dead Reckoning: Silvermoon Isle
Dreampath: The Two Kingdoms
Emerald City Confidential
Emerald Maiden: Ship of Dreams
Empress of the Deep 3: Legacy of the Phoenix
Enchantia: Wrath of the Phoenix Queen
Eventide: Slavic Fable
Fright
League of Light: Wicked Harvest
Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen
Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Sacred Grove
Mythic Wonders: Child of Prophecy
Namariel Legends: Iron Lord
Nearwood
Parallels Cross
Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes
Spirits of Mystery: Song of the Phoenix
Where Angels Cry: Tears of the Fallen

Casual Series

Dark Parables
Drawn
Enigmatis
Nightmare Adventures
Otherworld

Hi Becky!

I don't have the answer to your question. But I seem to remember that it was Becky who wrote those articles, although I could be wrong.

It was Becky. Are the essays still there?

8dognight,

I am in the process of making a list of editorials. I will link it to the title of the frame. I will announce it when done.

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Here's the link to the Editorials.

Hi Ana! Thanks for giving us a chance to vote again this year. (I like voting.)

MaG -- nice link. It's fun to see the editorials again.

Becky long time since you've been here. Welcome back!

Hi Gerry -- good to see you.

These new smilies are great.

Becky, I have enjoyed your editorials and hope you add new ones.

Here's my list for this year. Thanks for doing this again BrownEyedTigre!

Awakening: The Sunhook Sprire
Beyond: Light Advent
Blue Tear
Brink of Consciousness: Dorion Gray Syndrome
Cadenza: Music Betrayal and Death
Calavera: Day of the Dead
Curse at Twilight: Thief of Souls
Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel
Dreampath: The Two Kingdoms
Eternal Journey: New Atlantis
Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen
Hidden Expedition: Smithsonian Hope Diamond
Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen
Lost Lands: The Golden Curse
Maze: Subject 360
Myths of the World: Of Fiends and Fairies
New York Mysteries: High Voltage
Riddles of Egypt
Spirits of Mystery: Song of the Phoenix
Timeless: The Lost Castle

Series:

House of 1000 Doors
League of Light
Mystery Case Files
Mystery of the Ancients
Surface

Oh boy, more recommendations to follow up. Thanks to this List, I aquired a couple of new games recently that were exceptional. I had given up on Big Fish last year because they bury all their good games under an avalanche of [blip] that you have to filter through, and it became more trouble than it was worth to find a good game. No more. If we can get recommendations from each other, I'm back in the Big Fish fan club again.

I bought Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt, and just finished it. One of the best in a loooong time. Wow! Huge game, excellent graphics and animation, interesting HOG scenes with innovative touches, and tough mini-games. The Bonus game was worth its name as well. I played it on the hardest setting, and it was a dream date. I have marked this game in my database as a definite Replay! Having said this, there are caveats: There is a LOT of shagging your *** back and forth, a bit more than really was necessary. Most voice acting was scenery-chewing excess. Also, there are those celebratory trumpet blasts whenever you solve a small puzzle. Finally, there were some oddities about it that will throw off many veteran players. If you see something up in a tree and you find a slingshot to knock it down, your first thought is to find some ammunition for the slingshot, right? Maybe not. After looking around for any form of ammo while playing on in other scenes, I finally gave up and looked up a WT. Solution: You don't need ammo. ha ha You just click the empty slingshot on the target object! I'm serious. Still chuckling over that. Another example: At one underground cavern there is a threatening kraken in the water, blocking your progress, and you have to find a way to get rid of it before moving on. I was stumped there for another spell. There was nothing else I could do, so back to the WT. It said to break the stalagmites in the background ( on the other side of the lake, behind the kraken that is blocking your way). Uh huh. Last but not least, you find a torch shell that normally would need a wick or oil or something to light, right? Nope, you just stick the torch handle in the fireplace and voilá, flames. These little things detract somewhat because they stop you in your tracks. Still, they aren't enough to knock this game off the top of my list. Loved it. NB: You WILL have to take extensive notes in order to relocate objects you find along the way and then need later. Thanks so much to whomever put this game on his/her 2015 list. I owe you one!

Here is my list:

Individual Games:

Botanica
Drawn: The Painted Tower
The Tiny Bang Story

Series:

Agency of Anomalies
Dark Dimensions
Echoes of the Past
Grim Tales
Mystery Case Files

Ana

Like Cherai, Mythic Wonders also has a unique environment and style, set in another culture. The puzzles are related to the culture as well. It is very pretty in a graphic sense. Unfortunately, it is too easy to be much challenge. But if you like a beautiful setting, that might be enough to justify buying it.

Thanks to all who voted and a special thanks to my co-captain on the tallying of games, Chief!

Here are the results:


Individual Games in Order of Popularity

4 Beyond: Light Advent
3 Calavara: Day of the Dead
3 Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel
3 Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen
3 Margrave:Curse of the Severed Heart
3 Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove
3 Mystery Case Files: Key to Ravenhearst
3 New York Mysteries: High Voltage
3 Timeless: The Lost Castle
2 Awakening: Sunhook Spire
2 Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome
2 Cadenza: Music Betrayal and Death
2 Christmas Stories: Nutcracker
2 Drawn: The Painted Tower
2 Dreampath: The Two Kingdoms
2 Emberwing: Lost Legacy
2 Forbidden Secrets: Alien Town
2 Haunted Hotel: Charles Dexter Ward
2 Maze: Subject 360
2 Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
2 Myths of the World: Of Friends and Fairies
2 Nearwood
2 Parallels Cross
2 Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles
2 Shiver: Moonlit Grove
2 Spirits of Mystery: Song of the Phoenix
2 True Fear: Forsaken Souls
1 Eternal Journey: New Atlantis
1 Agency of Anomalies: Cinderstone Orphanage
1 Alex Hunter: Lord of the Mind
1 Amaranthine Voyage: The Orb of Purity
1 Amaranthine Voyage: Tree of Life
1 Azada
1 Big Secret of a Small Town
1 Blue Tear
1 Bluebeard's Castle
1 Bluebeard's Castle: Son of the Heartless
1 Botanica
1 Break the Curse: Crimson Gems
1 Clockwork Tales: Glass and Ink
1 Curio Society: Eclipse over Mesina
1 Curse at Twilight: Thief of Souls
1 Dark Dimensions: City of Fog
1 Dark Dimensions: Shadow Pirouette
1 Dark Hills of Cherai: The Regal Scepter
1 Dark Realm: Princess of Ice
1 Dark Realm: Queen of Flames
1 Dark Strokes: Sins of the Fathers
1 Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat
1 Dead Reckoning: Silvermoon Isle
1 Death Under Tuscan Skies: A Dana Knightstone Novel
1 Dracula: Love Kills
1 Drawn 2: Dark Flight
1 Echoes of the Past: The Kingdom of Despair
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Emerald City Confidential
1 Emerald Maiden: Ship of Dreams
1 Empress of the Deep 3; Legacy of the Phoenix
1 Emptiness
1 Enchantia: Wrath of the Phoenix Queen
1 Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood
1 Enlightenus
1 Eventide: Slavic Fable
1 Fall Trilogy (Part 1)
1 Fear for Sale: Mystery of McInroy Manor
1 Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen
1 Final Cut: Fade to Black
1 Fog (The)
1 Fright
1 Ghost Towns: The Cats of Ulthar
1 Green Moon
1 Grim Tales: Bloody Mary
1 Grim Tales: Color of Fright
1 Grim Tales: The Final Suspect
1 Grim Tales: The Legacy
1 Grim Tales: Threads of Destiny
1 Haunted Halls: Fears from Childhood
1 Haunted Hotel: Eternity
1 Haunted Hotel: Phoenix
1 Hidden Expedition: Dawn of Prosperity
1 Hidden Expedition: Smithsonian Hope Diamond
1 House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets
1 Jewel Match Twilight
1 Journey: Heart of Gaia
1 Lake House: Children of Silence
1 Last Dream
1 League of Light: Dark Omens
1 League of Light: Wicked Harvest
1 Legend of Gallant
1 Lost Cases of 221B Baker St
1 Lost Lands: The Golden Curse
1 Margrave: Blacksmith's Daughter
1 Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull
1 Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove
1 Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
1 Mystery Trackers: The Void
1 Mythic Wonders: Child of Prophecy
1 Namariel Legends: Iron Lord
1 New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia
1 Otherworlds: Spring of Shadows
1 Pahelika: Revelations
1 Paranormal Pursuit: The Gifted One
1 Phantasmat: Behind the Mask
1 Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes
1 Puppetshow: Mystery of Joyville
1 Reflections of Life: Equilibrium
1 Riddles of Egypt
1 Riddles of Fate: Memento Mori
1 Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt
1 Rite of Passage: Child of the Forest
1 Secrets of the Dragon Wheel
1 Shiver: Poltergeist
1 Shiver: Vanishing Hitchhiker
1 Shrouded Tales: The Spellbound Land
1 Spirit of Revenge: Gem Fury
1 Stray Souls: Dollshouse Story
1 Subliminal Realms:The Masterpiece
1 Surface: Return to Another World
1 The Tiny Bang Story
1 Weird Park: Broken Tune
1 Where Angels Cry: Tears of the Fallen
1 Witches Legacy: Dark Throne