Marian, I started Mind's Eye late last night and played for just over an hour. It is old fashioned, I guess you'd say. No voice acting, just reading. The HO scenes can be moved left or right a little. Some of the items are quite hard to find. I used the hint button two times in that hour. I think you only have one hint per level or scene but can find a certain item to add more hints. I found one without even knowing what I was clicking on but I saw it added a hint waiting. There are some puzzles in between some HO scenes. I did a fuse puzzle and a jigsaw puzzle, maybe something else that I'm forgetting. All in all, I am enjoying the game so far. It feels like a breath of fresh air at the moment.

I did not find the game in my Purchase History, so thank you for your thoughts on the game.

I finished Mind's Eye last night. Didn't exactly understand the story but I did like the game. I got used to the HO scenes but I think I used one more hint. One puzzle gave me trouble until after I walked away from the game for awhile. When I looked with fresh eyes I was able to figure it out.

Today I started Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope. It is pretty hard. I am stuck in it as well as my adventure game. That's not how it's supposed to work.

Edit: Whew. Got unstuck in Dark Heritage and am now about half through the game I think. It's pretty good.

I haven't played Dark Heritage yet.

I just started an adventure/RPG called Mage's Initiation, which I am enjoying very much so far. Not sure which casual game will be up next.

I played that game quite a while ago, Marian, and LIKED it 👍

Good to know, Mad!

I think my next casual will be a match 3 game - not sure which one, though.

I have that game but haven't played it. I'm going to have to unstick myself in my adventure today, one way or the other.

I just finished Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope and I must say that it was a pretty good game. When I was stuck near the beginning it was just because I missed a hot spot for a HO scene. I played in "expert mode" so I didn't have the sparkles. One puzzle in the bonus chapter took me awhile to finally see it right but otherwise it wasn't too hard, nor too easy. I was even able to follow the story for a change.

I think Sharpe Investigations: Death on the Seine is next.

I don't have Sharpe Investigations.

Dark Heritage sounds like it is well worth playing. I will move it up higher in my to-play pile.

I just finished Nancy Drew The Secret Of Shadow Ranch. I am now just jumping in and out of some Christmas games. I also have been playing "Lots Of Things". I will probably start another Nancy Drew or a Carol Reed game. I am excited for the new Carol Reed coming January 1!

I have just started Nancy Drew Last Train To Blue Moon Canyon. One of my favorites

That is one of my favorites too, Marlene.

I played Sharpe Investigations in one sitting. It's short and sort of weird. Not horrible, but not really good either.

I'm off to play The Christmas Spirit: Golden Ticket now.

I haven't played Golden Ticket yet. And yes, I will pass on Sharpe Investigations. Good to know about it, though.

OMG. I spent more than 2 hours trying to figure out a puzzle and when I decided there was absolutely no way to do it I looked at the guide. I've linked to it if you want to look at it. Go so your scroll bar is about 2 inches down. It's a dress with "stains" on it that you are trying to sponge off. Solutions O and P. The very last move in P there is a stain that is in the hem line of the dress when all the others are in an apron type area. I did not see that one stain which of course, made all the difference. Argh.

https://zotuf.com/the-christmas-spirit-5-golden-ticket-walkthrough/

I took a look at it. I know how this feels, as this sort of thing has happened to me many times. It's so annoying when you realize what you missed.

I started Shadows: Price for our Sins and The Adventures of Perseus tonight.

I have Shadows but haven't played it. I have been close to getting Adventures of Perseus a couple of times. Let us know what you think of these games.

Finished ND Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon. I am now playing my favorite Mystery Case Files "The 13th Skull". I love this game! Great character interaction especially with that lovely couple Cooter and Charlotte. Charlotte is so funny! This is a great fun game and I highly recommend it to those of you who haven't played it.

I should replay 13th Skull. I loved the humor, too!

I've played it but can't say I remember much about it.

I finished Shadows: Price for our Sins tonight. It is quite a long game. I played it in hard mode so I didn't have sparkles and, of course, I missed some hot spots and needed to use the hint button a couple of times. It is mostly a good game with nice puzzles. The HO scenes were getting to me at times because you did have to kind of click all over. The journal that you keep would turn back to the beginning when you left the game so you would have to page through it all to get back where you were which was a bit annoying. There was one major problem that put a bit of a damper on the game for me though. At one point you need to use a hammer and I had a hammer but it would not work. I didn't know if I just wasn't clicking in quite the right space or not so I tried it over and over and then I would move on and go back to it. I sort of thought I might need another item there also though it just said to use the hammer (not the hint; just the normal game info that you get when you click on something). Anyway, there were a lot of locations and I was able to continue but I kept worrying that there was a glitch and I would not be able to finish the game, especially after I used the hammer somewhere else and it disappeared from my inventory. Then a long way later I did find another item that needed to be used in that same spot but it was even later after that when I finally found another hammer and all was good. If I hadn't been worrying that it was a glitch, I would have enjoyed the game better. It is certainly worth playing. There was one page in the journal with writing on top of writing so you couldn't read it and one puzzle with incorrect instructions. Most of the puzzles didn't really need the instructions anyway. This particular one was easy enough to figure out and I don't even know why I looked at the instructions. There were some full answers there too as it was really more of a hint & answer area (behind a question mark) than instructions which were actually below the puzzles. Oh, and the first puzzle (or near the beginning) didn't seem to work even looking at the answer so I had to skip it. No big deal though for any of that. I played it in Windows 7 (just fyi).

I'm still playing The Adventures of Perseus but I think I'm getting close to the end. I like it. There are 3 play modes, untimed, timed with hints, and timed for a lesser amount of time and no hints. I'm playing the middle mode. There are regular swap levels and also some chain and group levels. I have had to repeat some levels but mostly it is not too hard.

Thanks so much for that detailed description of Shadows, ob. It sounds like it's worth a play.

And based on what you have said about it, I will pick up The Adventures of Perseus at some point. It sounds like a nice match 3.

You folks are always inspiring me to try a game that you are playing. Just picked up Shadows from Steam for $.74 ! Sales tax of six cents brought it to an overwhelming $.80. Pretty good for "quite a long game." I might just wait, and play it after the new Carol Reed. (Which might or might not take a long time)

I have been playing the latest catch, Surface: Reel Life CE. It's very different; the premise is, that action that should remain on the movie screen comes to life, and becomes a real (reel) threat. Your daughter gets kidnapped and dragged into the movie environment, and it's up to you to rescue her.

There is a lot of 'back-and-forthing' but getting around is super easy. Some of the puzzles are on the difficult side, but absolutely doable. Instructions for the puzzles feel like they were written by somebody who volunteered: "Oh I can do that, I speak some English"

The hidden object scenes have a feature that I don't remember seeing before. Spoiler: