Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials
A three-hour ghost story dressed as a hidden object game, carried by a genuinely odd Nathaniel Hawthorne conspiracy that deserved sharper puzzles around it.
GamerScout Verdict
Worth an evening if the Salem-and-Hawthorne premise sells you; skip it if you want puzzles that respect your time.
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About Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials
The historical hook is the best thing here, and it's better than this genre usually bothers with. You're chasing the ghost of Nathaniel Hawthorne through Salem, and the plot actually commits to the messy real history of the witch trials instead of using it as spooky wallpaper. The writing is straight-faced, the ghost-story atmosphere lands, and for a casual adventure released in 2012 it treats its source material with more care than the box art suggests. What surrounds that hook is standard, sometimes creaky. This is point-and-click hidden object work: scan cluttered scenes, collect the list, solve the occasional inventory or logic puzzle between them. A few of those puzzles run on 2012 adventure-game logic, where the solution makes sense only after you've already brute-forced it, and the scene art gets recycled more than it should. It's short, maybe an evening, and the Steam crowd's mixed verdict feels about right. Come for the Hawthorne mystery, not the puzzle design.
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- Processor
- 1.6 GHz
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM DirectX®:9.0 Hard Drive:480 MB HD space
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- Developer
- MumboJumbo
- Publisher
- Accelerate Games
- Release Date
- Mar 28, 2012
