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A subreddit about hidden object type casual games.

Reddit Channel for Hidden Object Games. These are reddit member submitted Hidden Object Games chosen and voted on by the reddit community

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If you found us, you probably already know this, but here are some videos that describe what Hidden Object Games are:

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Discussion about immersion from a casual gaming convention

A funny look at HO games in real life

Another funny look at HO games in real life

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Related websites you may like:

Big Fish - Top Quality Hidden Object Games from various studios.

TheGamerStop - Online HOGs not the best storyline's but good for a quick game.

Seek & Find - Amazon App Store

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[PC] [2010s] Help me find a childhood hidden object puzzle game!

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a game I played as a kid. I remember it being a hidden object puzzle adventure game, but I can't recall the name. If anyone can help me track it down, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

Here is the full list of details:

  1. Puzzle with images - The images were haunted.

  2. Attacking animal - A puma, panther, or wolf appeared and attacked, but did not kill. The animal played an important role in the game.

  3. Scene with a drowning person - There was a scene with a person drowning in a puddle.

  4. Dark atmosphere - The game had a dark atmosphere.

  5. Scene in a mine - At the end of the game, there was a scene set in a mine or a place similar to a mine.

  6. Older person turning to dust - There was a scene where an older person turned to dust after being touched by the main character.

  7. HOPA game - The game was a HOPA (Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure), meaning a game with hidden objects, puzzles, and adventure elements.

  8. Game download - The game could be downloaded from some gaming website.

9 Comments
2025/01/31
19:43 UTC

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Can you buy gems with coins in the G5 Sherlock Holmes Match 3 game?

I have so many gems that range in the millions area, but there are no useful tools that I can use the coins to buy. I want to know if its possible to buy gems with coins cause I am definitely not using my money to buy online microtransactions.

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2025/01/31
17:26 UTC

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looking for a game

my friend trying find a game he played around 2010 he believes it was on big fish. it a hidden game as a witch. in the game to have to collect item for making potions but you also have to do it before the computer does. any idea guys?

0 Comments
2025/01/30
15:52 UTC

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What hidden object game is featured on this subreddit's banner?

As the title says. Just curious if anyone recognizes it at all.

0 Comments
2025/01/29
21:07 UTC

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Atypical Hidden Object games

Hi all, I'm in search of all the classic titles I adored years ago, but especially those with atypical HOG scenes. Examples would be the broken object searches from Dark Parables, or the HOG puzzle scenes from League of Light. Dream Chronicles is also a firm favorite, but I know those games are no longer on market. Anyway, give me your thoughts and suggestions! Bonus points if the games are available on steam! TYIA!

6 Comments
2025/01/28
20:32 UTC

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Dream Day Wedding

I used to play the Dream Day Wedding games all the time on big fish way back in the day but I found out that you can't play it through big fish on a tablet anymore so I was wondering if you can play it anywhere else on a tablet because I don't have a laptop anymore? I'm guessing no because of the whole adobe flash thing but I really miss those games so I thought I'd ask.

2 Comments
2025/01/27
21:11 UTC

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Help finding a game please

Solved!!: Stray Souls Stolen Memories

Hi (: I’m trying to find a HOG game I used to play.

I played it on my iPad around 2012-2014ish, there was a free demo and then to finish the game you had to pay, I believe it was around the $6.99-$13.99. Im like 98% sure the game was from Big Fish games.

My memory is pretty foggy (about most of the game) but the protagonist was a girl and she was looking for her brother? (I am not certain about the looking for brother bit)

The first level I can remember is in a diner if some sort and you play a puzzle with a claw machine. It gives you a lightbulb or something like that. Then it goes outside and there is some crows and I think a man talks to the protagonist. I believe this level takes place at night. And the claw machine might glow blue?

I know there is a scene with a train and a train ticket and I think the train was red. (This isn’t certain but there may be a shape related puzzle in this portion of the game with the ticket and train car)

Then you got to a house (maybe)? There is a plane crashed in the house that’s a level. There is a level where you have to find a bunch of keys. There is something to do with a locker in the hallway of this house.

The final level (I think!) is the girl in the attic bringing to life a wooden life size mannequin/doll? You have to build its heart out of shards maybe?

I’ve been trying to find this game on and off since 2019 and write down stuff when I remember. That’s unfortunately all I can remember. Any help would be so greatly appreciated.

I went through some of the subreddit seeing if someone already asked about this game or it got brought up and unfortunately I couldn’t see anything. I also put it through ChatGPT to see if it would know, it didn’t and the games it gave me were

-Awakening: The dreamless castle -Treasure seekers: the enchanted canvases -Suburban Mysteries -Rite of passage -Dreamland

It is none of those games. But any help would be so greatly appreciated! Thanks so much (:

12 Comments
2025/01/26
12:41 UTC

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Help finding a game please.

I believe the game takes place in a library where we can sort of travel into the books, (there was one book where we help King Arthur get his Excalibur, another where there was a sort of diamond thief and another where we may have defeated a blue genie at the final part I believe by using a rag orsomething(?)

9 Comments
2025/01/25
09:10 UTC

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NEED HELP FINDING A CHILDHOOD HIDDEN OBJECTS GAME I HAVE BEEN LOOK DOR YEARS PLZ HELP

Description: I’m sorry I have a really bad memory. All I remember is a big house cartoon not horror or anything I think it was on BIGfish.com but I’m not to sure you had to go room to room I’m pretty sure there was a pregnant lady (I was very young) the house was super cluttered and you had to find things within the clutter ( I REALLY WANNA PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN PLZ HELP ME )Thank you

4 Comments
2025/01/24
09:23 UTC

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Help me to find an old video game again/Hilf mir ein altes Videospiel wiederzufinden

So, i'm on the search for an old video game, a hidden object game, but i can't remember a lot of it, i played it as a child, i'm 26 now. From which i know, there are three worlds: a knights castle, an underwater realm or aquarium and the mars. Each world has three difficulties and many levels to search objects in. There was a narrator, i think a young boy, who spoke in prosa or rhymes before and after each level. I know there is a dragon in the castle, a mermaid and a shark in the aquarium and atleast three yellow-green-ish aliens on the mars. I know that the name of the program were "Fantasie" or so in german, so maybe it is "Fantasy" or so in english, but it ain't the name of the game sadly. Or better, if it is the name of the game, i can't find it in the internet, because of its stupid generic name... So thank you for anyone who can help me to find the game again. :)

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Also, ich bin auf der Suche nach einem alten Videospiel, einem Hidden Object- bzw. einem Wimmelbildspiel, doch kann ich mich leider an so gut wie nichts erinnern. Ich hab es als Kind gespielt, bin jetzt 26. Von dem was ich noch weiß, gibt es drei Welten: Eine Rittersburg, ein Unterwasserreich oder Aquarium und den Mars. Jede Welt hatte drei Schwierigkeitsgrade und mehrere Level in denen man Dinge suchen musste. Es gab eine Erzählerstimme, ich glaub ein kleiner Junge, welcher in Prosa bzw. in Reimen sprach und das sowohl vor als auch nach jedem Level. Ich weiß, dass es einen Drachen in der Burg gab, eine Meerjungfrau und einen Hai im Aquarium und zumindest drei gelb-grünliche Aliens auf dem Mars. Ich weiß noch, dass die Anwendung "Fantasie" oder so ähnlich hieß. Allerdings ist dies leider nicht der Name des Spiels und wenn doch, dann kann ich das Spiel, aufgrund seines bescheuert-generischem Namens, nicht im Netz finden. Also danke an jeden, der mir dabei helfen kann dieses Spiel wiederzufinden. :)

3 Comments
2025/01/23
22:07 UTC

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Atmospheric winter nystery

Hi there! I'm looking for some HOGs that are set in snowy winter scenery, can be horror or detective stories, something like MCF: dire grove for example ☃️

6 Comments
2025/01/23
16:05 UTC

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Trying to find an old game

I’ve been searching for this game for a while. I can’t remember a whole lot of it but I remember certain aspects of it.

It was a 2D horror/mystery game that follows our main female protagonist through areas of the map. I think the character was kidnapped but the main theme is mostly blurry. The most vivid scene I remember is the protagonist going to a gazebo as she’s been following these ghost brides around and stuff and has a choice at this wedding table to put on the ring to “marry” the kidnapper or to reject him. There’s three ghost brides that followed you around and I think later on it’s found out that they were the guys previous brides who he killed. Game was hyper realistic too, really nice graphics and the gazebo scene was in a very light area.

It was on a disk and had to have been made before 2014 as that’s around the time I last played it and it was already kinda an old game.

3 Comments
2025/01/23
05:24 UTC

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Help me find lightning in this picture,, from g5 game.

8 Comments
2025/01/22
21:32 UTC

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Where Can I Find Old Adobe Flash Player Games?

Did they all get deleted when the Adobe Flash Player was shutdown? :'(

6 Comments
2025/01/17
19:50 UTC

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Any games similar to the mortimer beckett games

i have played the mortimer beckett games so many times and im looking for a new one but all of the hidden object games that ive tried so far just arent what im looking for. Are there any games with a similar playstyle and format?

5 Comments
2025/01/17
03:19 UTC

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Can't find good mobile version

Been trying to find game like mystery case files on mobile but the only games I found that are like that are so far are murder in the Alps and murder by choice both made by the same dev but they cause energy and it's annoying

Have any recommendations on mobile game I miss it 😔

Edit: forget to put this I don't have a PC or laptop to play on that's why am asking for a mobile game version

3 Comments
2025/01/16
09:49 UTC

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"So Bad It's Good" Hidden Object Games Suggestions

Just found this sub, so excited I did! I love hidden object games and have played a lot over the years. Started way back when they first started popping up in CD packs in Walmart. Back when the good ones were the I-Spy games you rented from the local library because the Nancy Drew games were too hard. You get it, I'm old.

Maybe that's why I have a soft spot for what others might find frustrating. The HO games I find myself replaying the most these days are the more bizarre, bad voice acting, generally out there ones. What are your favorites, or any that come to mind? It's difficult to remember them all, but a few examples that come to mind are:

  • Outlaws: Corwin's Treasure (bad VA, weird plot, one of my favs)

  • Hide and Secret Treasures of the Ages (bitstrips?? funny(?) VA, bare min effort HO scenes, I <3 Toadie)

  • Lost Legends: The Weeping Woman (really really bad accents)

Don't get me wrong—Lost Legends as a series is generally pretty legit, while the other two examples are probably very very indie by comparison. I wanted to be fair and list a better known series alongside the poor indies who're just doing their best(?). This is all in good fun and taste is subjective.

17 Comments
2025/01/16
07:03 UTC

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A game about a dead couple (in the 1800s ,probably)

Please, help me find this. It's a game from my childhood that I loved very much, but I never got to finish it.

I know it began with a story of a couple who died in a shipwreck, and there was something about a heart-shaped necklace. I think the interactive part started in a cemetery, where the young woman's ghost first appeared to guide you. She wore a big dress and her ghost had pink shades. I don't know if the game's title had the word 'gold' in it.

Please, please, please, if you have any idea what the name of this game is, write it to me.

I remember being able to play a part of it online, on a site that I can't find.

1 Comment
2025/01/15
19:54 UTC

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Recomendations?

I finished meridian 157 on ios, i loved that game, is there anything anyone would recommend similar to that vibe? I like the mysterious puzzle games with a good storyline, and something that will keep me playing for a while, maybe a series, or just a few different games, please and thank you!

4 Comments
2025/01/14
14:38 UTC

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Help

I'm looking for a phone game, the little character is a blonde butler often used as a sprite for similar games, it's a cute manor or hotel of some sort, you play hidden object levels to earn coins to renovate the building, I lost it in a reset and I really wanna play again!

1 Comment
2025/01/13
21:32 UTC

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Looking for Help Identifying a Mystery Point-and-Click Game From My Childhood

0 Comments
2025/01/13
18:33 UTC

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I added a hint system to the game that reveals hidden objects. Additionally, I designed a cooldown system to prevent frequent usage. What do you think about it?

1 Comment
2025/01/13
10:16 UTC

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Dream chronicles

Does anyone know why Big Fish Games stopped carrying the dream chronicle series? I could have sworn I bought them there but now I can’t find those games anywhere

14 Comments
2025/01/13
05:03 UTC

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Technical Help with More Older Hidden Object Games

Hello, as the title states I'd appreciate any help in fixing errors for booting up quite a large list of old hidden object games. If nothing else, this is a bit of a warning of being cautious when switching to Windows 11.

This is a follow-up from my other post on Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders where that game also didn't work, as I've also just discovered a lot of old HOGs don't work.

Here are all the HOGs I'm facing issues with (regardless of if I downloaded it from Steam, Big Fish, or elsewhere):

  1. Mortimer Beckett 1-4 (crashes and says "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices. This program will now exit.")
  2. Phantasmat 1 (crashes and says "CUG DX8 Error: Could not initialize the game because of problems with graphic drivers. Please make sure you are using the latest DirectX and graphic card drivers.")
  3. Phantasmat 2 (clicking on the exe file just opens nothing)
  4. Mystery Legends 1-3 and Penny Dreadfuls: Sweeney Todd (crashes and says "No hardware-accelerated Direct3D devices were found. This program requires a DirectX 8.1 compatible 3D video card.")
  5. Awakening 1 (crashes and says "Unable to create Game Window!: There was an error creating the 3D window. Now exiting.")
  6. Mystery Stories 3: Mountains of Madness (crashes and says "GFC1 Exception: Device type (IDirect3DDevice8::CheckDeviceType) is not supported. Error: 0x8876086a (D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE).")

Do note I have already tried a multitude of solutions:

  • I ran on compatibility mode and as administrator
  • I used a Windows 7 emulator on VirtualBox
  • I uninstalled and reinstalled every version of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables possible
  • I uninstalled and reinstalled my display adapters (Intel(R) Arc(TM) Graphics, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU)
  • I adjusted the graphics settings to try "power saving" and "high performance" for all games involved
  • I tried to install older versions of DirectX to no avail (I have DirectX 12, may need better pointers)
2 Comments
2025/01/12
20:59 UTC

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I need help finding an old game, please!

I remember the land was in some sort of curse, I remember an old man at the start and having to collect maple leaves throughout the entire game and having to use it on the old man, turn him young, I think he was a prince.
Medieval-ish setting if I recall correctly.

2 Comments
2025/01/12
13:35 UTC

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I need help finding childhood game

The only part that was traumatic for me is a jumpscare of cat face, tbh i don't know much else, i only remember there's part where it's revealing there's a bodies under the lake smth like that

10 Comments
2025/01/12
13:30 UTC

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Looking for

Does anyone know the hidden objects game where there are three princesses trapped in a tank of water in a lab of a witch (I think) and are all wrapped in white bandage looking clothes and need to get rescued by a princess? There is an old lady advisor in a green dress with a head dress like a nun would wear I think who tells this princess to fulfill her destiny after her parents died in the beginning. I saw it years ago and now I can’t remember what it is called.

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2025/01/12
02:21 UTC

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Hidden object games which has shadow or picture as clue

Hi,

My 4 year old likes to find objects but he can't read the word clues. I read him the words and give vocal clues but he is much interested in games like golden trails 2 which has pictures as clues. Refer attached image

Please suggest free or paid game which has similiar clue option

1 Comment
2025/01/11
13:31 UTC

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