Well, remember I was going to replay the Dream Chronicles series out of a feeling of nostalgia? I replayed the first game but went to start the second game last night and the rest of the games - 2, 3, & 4 anyway (I didn't check 5) all require Adobe Flash Player so I guess I will not be able to replay those. Not really a big deal but still a little .

So, I started Graven: The Purple Moon Prophesy instead. So far, so good!

I didn't finish The Christmas Spirit: Mother Goose's Untold Tales until yesterday. I played on "easy" and many of the puzzle were easy but I ran across a few that I found quite challenging (but doable)!

That's a shame about the Dream Chronicles games. I have a couple of them so thank you for the heads up. I have Adobe Flash Player on an older computer that doesn't go online and I will be able to play them that way - maybe you can work out some kind of an arrangement like that?

I have heard good things about Graven but haven't played it yet.

I find puzzles challenging on easy mode quite frequently!

I have been busy with the CEs and have completed Detectives United III: Timeless Voyage CE - this is the first one of that series I have played. The second one I finished was Edge of Reality: Call of the Hills CE. I enjoyed them both.

Now I am playing Mystery of the Ancients: Deadly Cold CE and it is terrific - way up there on my favorites list. Getting towards the tend of the main game and then we will see how the bonus game goes.

Marian, I was thinking of trying the Dream Chronicles games in my XP. I'm not sure if that has Flash Player installed on it or not and wasn't sure whether the computer would have to be on-line or not to use it. I have the first 4 games on disc so not an issue of downloading there. To be honest, I had just uninstalled the Flash Player in my Win7 about 2 weeks ago and I did actually reinstall it last night to try to play the games but it then said I had the wrong version (probably TOO new). I'll let you know if they work in my XP.

I also ran across Living Legends: The Crystal Tear in my library. I have played all of the other games in the series but forgot about this one, so it is downloaded and will be played soon.

Reading this thread made me want to play the Mystery Case Files series again. I haven't touched a hidden object game since I lost my mom in November '18, but I'm having fun. Finished Huntsville and Prime Suspect, and have done a couple of rooms in Ravenhearst. Turns out I'm not a fan of jigsaw puzzles, I prefer the type that was in Prime Suspect. The door-puzzles are fun though, a break from object-searching. I'm rather surprised though, all three are rather old games and they run perfect on my Win 10. Huntsville made me change the size of the screen to get it to full-screen, but that is not a problem.

Welcome to this thread, Carolin! Nice to see you here. The one MCF game that doesn't seem to work for people on Windows 10 is Dire Grove. I know a couple of people only who have managed to get it running on Windows 10, and we aren't sure why. Glad you are having fun replaying the series.

My condolences for the loss of your mother. I lost my mother in April 2017 and miss her very much.

I finished Graven: The Purple Moon Prophecy and it was quite a good game with some challenging puzzles. I think you will like it Marian.

I also installed games 1-4 of Dream Chronicles from the discs into my XP computer and started playing the 2nd game. I will not however, be able to play the 5th game which is a BF download and it does require Flash Player. Argh. I wish I would have known this before I started my replay. I could have played them sooner and/or not uninstalled the Flash Player already.

Well, that takes care of 80% of your Dream Chronicles problem, at least. I guess the fifth game never came out on a CD, even in some compilation package. Will let you know if I find out differently.

Graven sounds very good. I hope to play it this year. I managed to finish 86 casual games since the quarantine began (I've kept a list of all of them). Maybe I will eventually play most of my backlog after all!

Marian - I have learned to believe you when you say a game is terrific; 💖 so I have downloaded a couple of the Mystery of the Ancients. My question is, how to find out the order in which they were released; and does it even matter what order I would play them? With the BOGO on now, I might just pick up the lot.

It did matter (sort of) with the Lost Lands games, only because the later games refer to the earlier ones at times. It wouldn't do any harm to play them out of order, the player would just miss the cross-reference. I have finished five of the seven, enjoying every moment.

Happy-Healthy New Year!!

Happy-Healthy New Year to you too, Tally Ho!

I think that the Mystery of the Ancient Series as well as the League of Light series (Mariaglorum is the developer) are all quite good.

They don't really need to be played in any particular order, as I recall - although with the League of Light series, there is an ongoing story in some of the games about a little scarecrow, so from that standpoint you may want to play them in order (I personally liked the little scarecrow and did not find this to be quite as hokey as it sounds).

Also, while the first Mystery of the Ancients: Lockwood Manor CE, is a good game, it came out in 2011 and has no voiceovers as well as more hidden object scenes - just letting you know in case this would make it a less enjoyable game for you.

I would start with the following as being some of the best:

League of Light: Dark Omens CE

Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water CE

Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape CE

League of Light: Wicked Harvest CE

The others in both series are all above average - the above are just some of my top picks. Here is the order in which they were released:

Mystery of the Ancients series order

League of Light series order

Of note, League of Light: Growing Threat CE is more of a straight HOG than a HOPA. The rest are all HOPAs.

This thread has gotten very long, so I am going to go ahead and lock it. The discussion can be continued in the new thread that I have created here.