r/HiddenObjectGames

Hi friends! What do you think?

Shop Crush is a mysterious shop simulator with psychological horror elements, set in the early 2000s.

In this hybrid visual novel, you run a small thrift shop, get to know your customers, figure out what they really want, and decide what to put in front of them. Every customer has their own personality, preferences, and hidden motives - and it’s up to you to figure them out.

Behind each customer is a small psychological mystery waiting to be uncovered. Read their behavior, make the right calls, and balance profit against customer trust as you try to keep the shop running for one more day.

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove (2009) has been incompatible with Windows 10 and 11 since Windows 10's release in 2015. In the years since, there have been countless forums and comments about how Dire Grove hasn't worked, and countless demands for BFG to update and/or remaster the game to run on modern PCs. For years, the solution has been to either buy a non-cheap older Windows laptop, or install a Virtual Machine, which invited its own painful issues.

By September 7, 2026, it took 11 years for a fan (u/Aromatic-Fail7504) to release a click-and-drag patch to let the game run on Windows 10 and 11.

Just a few weeks later (now), on October 4, 2026, BFG teased what pretty much could only be a remaster of this game, before officially revealing it today on their website and social media, October 6, 2026.

Do note that it is genuinely likely that BFG has actually been working on this remaster in the previous months and just happened to announce and release it after the fan-patch: BFG did made a post (second screenshot) dating to March 2026 within their Facebook fan group Big Fish Fans about updating their older games.

Please also note that it is documented that the other very recent remaster of Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival (2013) just last month offered unique bugs not seen in the original version. It is possible that this remaster of Dire Grove will not be as buggy, although based on the attached promotional screenshots, the fonts seemed to have been changed (although this could be from a beta or something). The second screenshot shows the original HUD at the top, and the remaster's promotional screenshot's HUD at the bottom.

If the remaster makes other significant changes besides improving compatibility and one wants to prefer the original, the fan patch will always still work to keep playing the original.

All from the public available IPAs. Do you remember playing them?

An audio clue from the official Big Fish Games account? What could this mean? Detectives, get to work! 🔍🕵️