r/HiddenObjectGames

I recently decided to replay Return to Ravenhearst to feed my nostalgia, but the game, being designed for old hardware, makes it incredibly difficult to play. I have a 1920x1080 monitor at 240 Hz, but every time I launch the game it forces the resolution down to 800x600 and 60Hz, and I have to manually change it back after closing the game. Is there any way to keep it windowed but resize the window to be the size of my screen? Literally just making the game's image bigger, no upscaling or anything, just so that I can actually SEE the game without having to change my system's resolution.

Anyone else really just sad about Mystery Case Files? I used to really look forward to their yearly release and for big fish and it’s very generic games they really were an anomaly among them. The games were gothic, grimey, the dialogue was cliche but funny at times, it's aware of its parody nature,  and the music / atmosphere was incredible plus the puzzles are actually quite difficult and fun. It’s a shame the series became a flanderisation of itself, the puzzles got easy and repetitive, the graphics butchered and the story was just bad and worst of all boring.  I feel like it hasn't been the same since Fate’s carnival and I just miss grimey hidden object games and obviously the good games (early Ravenhearst etc) are getting more difficult to play on computers as time goes on. Love to know what people think plus if there’s any recommendations for similar games I’d love them.

I’m looking for some weird or strange games to play—maybe even creepy or unsettling ones. I want to be genuinely surprised. I’m looking for hidden gems or obscure games, not the usual stuff on Steam.

I’m looking for games that can genuinely scare me and make me feel deeply uncomfortable. What games have truly frightened or unsettled you the most?
If they aren’t built around a traditional horror theme, that’s even better.
And don’t worry about trigger warnings—I’m looking for the really heavy stuff.

Hi. I’ve bought a lot of HOP’s from Big Fish through my iPhone. I just got a computer (not an Apple) and am wondering if my purchasing will transfer over.

I need to vent because this keeps happening and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Hidden object games are my go-to brain-off break in a loud house. I'm a stay-at-home mom with a toddler, so I do not want a 900-system adventure. Give me a scene, a short list, let me click the tiny thimble behind the teapot, and let me feel like a competent human for three minutes.

Lately every new download feels the same: match-3, cutscene, dialog box, crafting screen, map with a currency, then a forced tutorial for some minigame I never asked for. By the time I finally get to a hidden object scene it's either a silhouette hunt (fine sometimes) or it's loaded with hint cooldowns and popups begging me to buy boosters.

I get that devs have to make money, but why make the hidden object bit feel like an afterthought? If I wanted to manage energy, upgrade a base, and grind for gems I'd play any other mobile game.

Am I just choosing the wrong titles, or is this where the whole genre is headed? If you know how to spot games that are actually scene-forward and not 80 percent minigames and currencies, please tell me. I'm tired of downloading something that looks cozy and getting a tutorial gauntlet when all I wanted was to find a spoon.

We’re partway through the week!
What have you been playing to get you through?

The game I've been looking for is an hidden object game for PC that has a protagonist with red hair and she's trying to save her hometown from an evil warlock or something similar and there are these wolf spirits that you have to get by and multiple puzzles

The game is a point-and-click and hidden objects, maybe from BFG Entertainment, but I'm not sure. The only things I remember are that it has a somewhat dark and nighttime vibe, it starts in a forest where you find a boat and go to another place, and that during gameplay there's a tarot(?) system where you need to find the cards to complete a puzzle. I played this game sometime between 2012 and 2015, I think.

I played this game on my iPad from 2015 to 2020, probably made by big fish

it was a medieval style game. at the start a girl is kidnapped and brought to a snowy castle, and the main character is a bounty hunter or something going to find her. you start at the girl’s house and after a cutscene you’re at the gates and do a task to get in. in the plaza there is a ghost woman looking out a window, and you got to do a whole thing and trap her in a silver mirror. there was also a mama griffin and you needed to find her baby. at some point you end up in a dungeon or something and in that section there is a hydra and an underground ice lake. at the end of the game the griffin comes back to help you escape.

i don’t really remember anything else about it unfortunately