I'm not sure but I don't think I downloaded any games until 2011. I did (and do) have BF games on disc though,

Ob, I think I probably spend about 6 to 8 hours on these games. If I were never to skip any puzzles, no doubt it would be considerably longer! I have Vampire in Love but haven't played it yet.

Mad, I think a lot of people felt the way that you did and then they played something like Return to Ravenhearst and they were won over. I started earlier in large part because there were a lot of time management games back then and I got hooked on them quickly.

It was the first "Drawn" game that sparked my interest. [I had bought the disc version.]

And playing that that got me to wondering if there were others like it out there

I have to correct this to 2013 as I just took a look at my history on BF. For some reason that first account shows at the top that I have 127 points although I have not purchased through that account since 2020. If I click on that message, it shows I have none. Whatever...

I am still enjoying both games I'm playing but it is probably not good trying to play them both. Some ways it is but some ways it's not. The Forgotten Town crashed to desktop on me yesterday but was fine when I went back in it. I'm playing that on Win 7, bought from Steam. Vampire in Love is getting harder. There was one puzzle that I finally figured out what I needed to do but wasn't getting it so I left that game for awhile. When I went back in I solved the puzzle but it didn't accept my solve. Very, very clear puzzle to see that it was solved, with some arrows in the right places, pointing in the right direction. There's a picture note clue you pin right next to the puzzle. Anyway, using the guide to follow the steps the game wanted me to make solved it, but I don't like that. I then quickly got stuck in another puzzle which I left for today . It's a nice game and I think you will like it Marian, when you get around to it.

I am playing Mysteryville (2007) I have the series 1, 2 and 3 on disk. I dug it out of my games box. I have a lot of games that I haven't played in years! It's fun going way back and replaying these games. I looked at Big Fish and they now only have Mysteryville 2 for sale. I wonder why? I downloaded a lot of games from Spintop Games back in the day but Spintop no longer exists. I do remember that they merged with BFG.

Also I have MCF Dire Grove in that box but unfortunately it won't play on windows 10 as we all know. Why won't MCF remaster it? It's such a great game!

Marlene, games are sometimes removed from the Big Fish catalogue and they never tell us why. I think that it has to do with licensing agreements, sometimes because one company has bought another one out, among other reasons. I just wish that they would notify us if a game is going to be removed so that we would have the opportunity to buy it before it is removed from the site. Fortunately if we have previously purchased them we don't lose them and are still able to download them from our Purchase History.

I agree that it is fun going back and replaying these older games. I am playing Millennium Secrets: Emerald Curse right now and finding it quite enjoyable. I haven't played it since it was released in 2010.

I don't think Spintop merged with Big Fish, but they were bought out by another company and many Spintop games were then removed from the Big Fish site after that.

I have (and played) Mysterville 1 & 2 on disc also. I seem to remember something about cats with those games? When I look at 2 on BF I don't see anything about cats. I never knew there was a 3.
I have Dire Grove on disc also and was going to give it a replay in Win 7 but never got around to it. I keep telling myself to get to all those old games on disc, many of which I have never played, but I never do.

I don't have those Millennium Secrets games.

No
I was mistaken there is no Mysteryville 3. But the one with the cats is Mysteryville 1 Here is the link to a free download to Mysteryville 1.[edit: removed link]

Hi Marlene, thank you for providing the link to the game. The website is probably okay but I cannot be sure, and would prefer to not allow links to websites of which I am not sure that they are legit. Thank you for your understanding. Whenever I see "free downloads" I believe it bears further investigation.

Yes I understand that. After I posted it I thought maybe I shouldn't. But I have downloaded games from there and no prroblem. I will not do that again. So sorry! We cannot be too careful!

No worries!

I finished Dark Romance: Vampire in Love last night. Some of the puzzles are very easy while some were quite hard. Several have to do with numbers but they didn't really add up right. I skipped one in the bonus chapter where I didn't like the way it worked, having to hold the mouse button down and move the cursor through a labyrinth. After falling back to the beginning 5 or 6 times I got tired of it. I'm not a fan of that type of movement and I did want to finish the game last night. The story was simple enough for me to follow but was a nice story also.

For the most part a very nice and enjoyable game!

When you have to hold the mouse button down and move the cursor through a labyrinth, I am grateful when the game does not start you over from the very beginning. I am not a fan of that type of movement either.

I am glad to hear you enjoyed the game! It sounds like I have another unplayed game to look forward to.

I just started Emberwing: Lost Legacy CE and am liking the game very much so far.

Marian, I made a post on the 13th that I'm not sure you saw. I mentioned that I think it is a game you would like.

Have fun with Emberwing! That is in my library.

Thanks, ob! I just went back and read the post. I do believe I missed that one.

And by the way, your mentioning that account showing points on the home page and then if you click on the link to the Big Fish points page, you have none - I have the same discrepancy with the points on the first page not matching the points on the Points page. I notice that this happened after Big Fish did system maintenance weeks ago and has been wrong ever since. It would appear to be a glitch that needs fixing.

Stuck in two puzzles in two different games. Trying to finish up Timeless: The Forgotten Town. I'm on what must be the last puzzle in the bonus chapter. Can't get it. Also playing Enchanted Kingdom: A Dark Seed. All was going well but about half way through the game I ran into a nasty puzzle. No luck yet even on "easy" mode. I almost had it in hard mode but just couldn't quite get it and hit reset. Now I can't even get close.

Two very nice games though!

Well, good luck with the puzzles!

I have played Enchanted Kingdom: A Dark Seed CE twice now. Yes, I like that game!

Still playing Emberwing and still enjoying it.

Emberwing keeps track of your playing time. I just now finished the bonus game and it says that the entire game took me 10 hours 10 minutes. It would have been considerably longer than that if I hadn't skipped some puzzles. Definitely worth the money.

I wasted two whole days not progressing in A Dark Seed. This evening I used the guide to complete the puzzle. Two lousy pieces that just needed to switch places but I could not get it. Now I am having trouble remembering what was going on in the story. I will get back to The Forgotten Town tonight and will skip that puzzle if I cannot get it (or use the guide) even though I hate when I have to skip the last puzzle of a game. It is time to move forward!

Marian, that is more like the amount of time I spend on these games. I can't figure out how some people play them in 4 hours unless they skip all the puzzles.

Yes, I have a hard time believing that anyone finishes them in four hours or less if they don't skip any puzzles.

I also like it when a game tells me how long I have been playing. I would like to see that feature more often in these games.

Good luck with the Forgotten Town puzzle!

Because I can’t do the long game playing sessions of old, I am now finding a game can take me DAYS to get through rather than hours !!

But as long as I’m enjoying myself …. Who cares ?? ….

Believe me Mad, I take days to play them. There have been a couple of shorter or easier games that I played in 2 days but most of the time I take 5-7 days. I am on a mission right now though trying to do 2 a week but not really succeeding.

Edit: The puzzle in The Forgotten Town was not quite the last one; there was one more after it. The guide did not help because I could not reset the puzzle to start over so I had to skip it as I couldn't figure it out.

Finished the whole of "Mystery of the Ancients : Lockwood Manor" CE and absolutely enjoyed it - so I'm going to install and play another from that series

Sounds good, Mad! I have enjoyed all of the games I have played in that series.

I've installed the "Deadly Cold" CE and watched the opening scenes