Slopes and Hills – these are the most basic challenges of the game, and also the most plenty. For most folks, the simple solution to playing the game is to keep holding and pressing up to accelerate. What most people do not realize is that there is no point to keep the pedal to the metal. Pressing on gas makes your wheels turn, but if your wheels are not planted on the ground, then you waste gas by making them spin for nothing. Press on the gas once your car has hit solid ground (or is running over a zombie) to ensure that the gas does not go to wait. If you are having trouble keeping the car’s wheels in contact with the ground, you must also use the tilt controls to keep them level. Also, remember that when performing a wheelie, your back wheels are still in contact with the ground, so accelerating then is also advisable.

Zombies – the desert is littered with the undead and while they do not endanger you with their bites, they certainly will waste your gas by getting in your way and slowing you down. At the start of the game, running into a single one will take a notch off your speed, a group of zombies will slow you down big time. Sadly, near the top of most uphill slopes, there will be a group of two to three zombies in the way, which means that aside from the slope already slowing you down, the three zombies will also bring your vehicle’s speed so low that you might as well have stopped. The key here is to not stop moving. You could boost if you have the upgrade but if not, you can opt to just keep pressing the gas. No matter how slow you get, as long as you accelerate, it will be fine. Note that there are actually different kinds of zombies, some are small and hardly get in the way except in small groups. Other zombies are tall and can really be a bother to run over. If you can manage it, try to jump over the zombies if your boost is enough to do so.

Boxes – for some odd reason, someone is stacking boxes out in the desert. It looks quite weird and all, encountering nicely laid out boxes in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, getting past the boxes is not that hard if you have enough speed. The big issue with boxes is when there are several of them together (such as the first pile at the 1000 distance mark). They can also slow you down if a few of them get under your car and you cannot crush the boxes. Fortunately, unlike the zombies, the boxes seem to be placed in more arbitrary areas, allowing you to pick up some speed before charging through. Lastly, be careful as many players have experienced being flipped over when they charged the boxes while performing a wheelie.

We are eagerly anticipating the development of Earn to Die 2 and can’t wait to hear more from Toffee Games on any planned sequel and it’s likely release date.

Orchestrated Death is a fun game where you play the grim reaper and it is your job to kill several innocent people and make it look like an accident. This of course won’t be easy but with our mini walkthrough to the game you should get the job done!

Miniguide: Chapter One

There is a man sitting behind a desk. On this desk is a gun, a clip of ammunition, a small razor and a desk lamp plugged into the wall outlet. While it may seem that all the necessary items for a quick death are in place, you will need to be a bit more creative –and this sets the pace for the rest of the game really; you will need to employ convoluted methods in order to dispose of your targets. So anyway, let us get on with the task of claiming this unfortunate soul.

First, click on the magazine clip. This will load it up on the gun, and ready the pistol in the right position. Now that the gun is loaded, click on it and it will fire at the ceiling, causing some damage to the roofing which then causes a leak near the wall outlet where the lamp’s plug is located. The gun will be pushed back by the recoil and will land on the floor. If you attempt to get the razor at this point, the man will notice and will place the razor back in its place. You must turn off the light first –you can do this by clicking on the lamp to turn it off or by unplugging the wall outlet. While the room is dark, quickly get the razor and it will drop on the floor, out of sight of the target. Using the razor, you can cut the lamp’s power cord, causing it to short out. This will cause the man to stand and attempt to reconnect the power outlet –however, since the room is dark, he will not see the water and will be electrocuted. The powerful burst of electricity will send him flying to the wall on the left and he will land near the gun, unconscious. Now you can take the gun and shoot the target in the head.

Miniguide: Chapter Two

This next chapter focuses on a cook, or rather, a chef, who is working inside the kitchen. While the situation is not as obvious as the first scenario, the kitchen is truly a place where plenty of accidents can happen. There are many elements here that will come into play, but none in quite the obvious manner that a person could think of.

The first thing you should do here is to open the refrigerator. Opening it will cause the chef to walk over and close it shut –during the chef’s walking animation, quickly press on the basket of fruits on top of the shelf. This will send the basket flying over the work counter and land near the blender. The chef will be completely oblivious to this and will return to working. Once he has his back to the screen once more, press on the basket to send a small round fruit into the blender. The chef will then stick his hand inside the blender for a quick moment to fish out the fruit before he returns to work. Since sticking your hand into the blender is dangerous, the chef does so very quickly (and we suggest that you never do so in real life). Anyway, your goal here is to press on the blender as soon as the chef’s hand is inside –the time is a bit difficult so expect to give this one a couple of tries before you can get it right.

If you do it properly, the chef’s hand will be completely mangled up, causing him to squirm in agony in front of the counter. With all of his attention on his injury, you can now manipulate other items in the room. First, use the pans –click them once to get them in position, and then click them again to beat up the chef. This will make the chef unconscious. Now you must drag the chef down the room and near the stove. Once there, click on the knife to get it ready then click on the chef to raise him off the floor. Once he is up, open the stove door. This lines up the chef for a powerful knife attack –which you make by pressing on the knife that you prepared earlier. The knife will stab the chef in the neck and send him flying into the oven.

Miniguide: Chapter Three

This last puzzle involves having two target victims in a single puzzle. Fortunately, the situation is to your advantage. As you may notice, the two men are in a boat on a swamp, fishing. They are both hillbillies and are rather violent types, so you can easily use this to your advantage when you try to kill them later on. Since there are so many things about being on a boat and the swamp that is dangerous, killing off these two can be pretty fun.

The first thing you should take note of is the set of keys on the belt of the guy on the left. These keys will open up the toolbox between the two men. If you try to get the keys, the man will notice, so you need to distract him first. Do this by clicking on the fishing line. Thinking that has gotten a bite, the man will try to reel it in, placing all his attention on the fishing rod. Take this opportunity to steal the keys and open up the toolbox. The box will open up and you will be able to get a knife. Since both men have their backs turned to each other, you can get to work without much interference at this point.

Use the knife to cut the man on the left, he will not die from the injury, instead, he will get annoyed and blame the other guy for it. The two will then engage in a furious fistfight that has no obvious winner. With that said, it is time to tilt the balance in your favor, as the guy on the right is getting punched, click on him to prevent him from punching back, he will lose the fight and get knocked off the boat. Sadly, the man is not dead yet, he will be floating on the water. To finish him off, click on the motor of the boat to turn it on (hard to notice, it is on the right side of the boat, near the water). This will cause the motors to turn and slice up the guy who fell. For the remaining person will lean over the water to see the horrifying accident. At this point, click on the water snake on the lower right corner of the screen to send it into the water. Then click on the man’s face, this will cause the snake to jump up, bite him and send him hurtling into the river.

Play Orchestrated Death now at Armor Games and see if you can claim the lifes of all the innocent people. If you like this sort of game then we would recommend heading on over to Death Games where there are plenty more gruesome games for you to play involving death including some really good zombie titles.

Explosive weapon types have the extra benefit of providing players with a gratuitous and resounding boom, as well as dealing out plenty of damage to the target and the nearby area. This splash damage effect will dish out plenty of damage to those caught within the blast and it provides players with the easiest way to score a double or even triple kill.

One thing players have to be careful about however is that splash damage overrides the game’s friendly fire settings. Sure, you do not have to worry about accidentally sniping your ally, but with a rocket launcher, your friends can get caught in the explosive blast. At this point, we already expect to see a lot of griefing from other players using splash damage type weaponry.

The Guns

Rocket Launcher (cost: FREE)

Power: 8

Range: 6

Accuracy: 6

Speed: 4

Ammunition: 1

Now here is a weapon so efficient that we wonder why anyone would want to switch out: the rocket launcher. If you still cannot figure out the name, this thing fires highly explosive rockets at equally high speeds –which is just another way of saying “death from afar”. The effectiveness of the rocket launcher is based on one simple property: catching your target within the blast radius –which is about 3 to 4 player bodies’ worth of distance. A single rocket launcher will knock out a fully shielded player and about half a health bar –easy enough to pick off with another rocket or a different gun. This means that if your opponent has less than half their shields, a solid hit on the head or the crotch could pretty much spell instant death.

The only real drawback here is that the rocket launcher is a suicide gun at close quarters; being caught in the blast radius will hurt a lot, so be sure to have full shields whenever you can. When fighting in enemy territory, be careful of freshly spawned players –everyone gets about a second and a half of invulnerability, allowing them to take the brunt of the explosion without a scratch while you get burnt to a crisp. Lastly, keep track of your teammates –the explosion is as fatal to them as it is to you.

Ion Cannon (cost: 1800)

Power: 6

Range: 8

Accuracy: 6

Speed: 3

Ammunition: 1

The ion cannon is pretty much a sniper rifle on steroids: headshots are almost instant kills all the time. Add in the fact that it can set enemies on fire and you have got a very powerful pseudo-artillery cannon. Like the rocket launcher, this gun also has a blast radius, but it is a little bit smaller –and also, a lot less self damaging. We recommend this for those who prefer to have precision strikes as compared to the wanton destruction brought by rocket launchers.

Grenade Launcher (cost: 2600)

Power: 4

Range: 5

Accuracy: 6

Speed: 6

Ammunition: 2

Grenade launchers are the perfect fishing weapons: find an enemy (or a group of them) that are encamped, then toss in these wonderfully sticky and explosive shots one after another. The heavily ballistic nature of the grenade launcher means that your shots will curve in an arc over obstacles –so be sure to give yourself a little aiming leeway. On the opposite end of the spectrum, using the grenade launcher allows you to shoot behind cover without putting yourself in the direct line of fire.

The best thing about the grenade launcher is that it is the explosive weapon with the safest detonation range –one that lets you run away before it goes boom. Yep, the grenade launcher has shells that are on a delayed explosive timer, which means that the damage will not kick in immediately after impact. Now this can put you at a disadvantage when you are in a direct firefight, it is even possible that you are hit and killed by a critical headshot before a single one of your grenades explodes, but as long as the grenades have stuck on your enemy, they will no longer be able to escape the impeding blast.

Ice Hunter (cost: 3200)

Power: 4

Range: 6

Accuracy: 5

Speed: 6

Ammunition: 1

Ice hunter missiles are among the weakest explosive weapons available, but when combined with other guns, it can prove to be the perfect support gun. The hunter fires homing missiles that dish out a moderate amount of damage (it also has a small blast radius), while the damage and ammunition clip for the weapon is low, the accuracy of its homing capabilities is superior. In fact, any opponent making a slow jump will easily be hit by this gun –making it perfect for chasing down targets who are running away.

Acid Hound (cost: 5000)

Power: 3

Range: 5

Accuracy: 4

Speed: 7

Ammunition: 4

Do not let this weapon’s stats fool you, that “3” in the power is very misleading –most importantly because of its special feature: acid damage, and just a few bullets will be enough to eat through any shield and armor. Speaking of a few bullets, this gun has a very high rate of fire –coming pretty close to a laser minigun. It fires entire rounds of boiling acid towards targets in moments, easily dousing them from head to toe. If a player armed with an acid hound manages to get near you, expected to get owned (unless, of course, they have extremely low health and no shields).

At long ranges however, the acid hound’s shots get a little wild, making it very ineffective in long distance firefights. You are better off using a stealth field to get up close before launching a volley of acid.

Strategies

We have said it above and we will say it again, be careful when handling explosive weaponry in this raze game. The explosions are more than enough to take out players with only half a life bar left –this means that you and your teammates are as vulnerable as your enemies. At the same time, be sure to take advantage of invulnerability power-ups that will allow you to temporarily use rocket launchers as a close range weapon.

As you may have noticed, all the weapons here have relatively low magazine clips, this means that some serious tactical reloading will have to be implemented if you intend to use any of these as a primary weapon. The best thing to do is to time your reloads when you are turning around or jumping up and down floors –if you run out of shells in front of a target, you are better off switching to a different gun instead of trying to reload.

You will have to go far to find any casual gamer that has never heard of the popular series of bejeweled series before. This time we will look at bejeweled twist, how does it differ from other bejeweled games, and also and more importantly other puzzle games in its genre.

The substantial change comes in the word twist, instead of clicking one gem and clicking one next to it to flip their positions this time you rotate four gems clockwise. In this game you can also make a change to the screen without making a match, previously on other bejewelled games the only time you could move a gem was to make a match. This brings in a whole new side to bejeweled games, instead of it being a clicking game it is now much more tactical because you can plan ahead, instead of just one move after another.

In all bejeweled games your ultimate goal is to score points based on the amount of gems you clear from the screen, to clear the gems you must align three or more in a row, the more gems you knock off at the same time the higher points you receive. Here is a summary of how many points you will get:

Gems score:

3 gems in a row = 50 points.
4 gems in a row = 100 points.
5 or more gems in a row = 200 points.

Here you can see that for each additional gem you match up you are awarded double points (up to five, ) so if you see a possibility of a massive combo then it might be in your interest to see if it is worth the hassle.

There are two different ways you can score on bejeweled twist: points and starts, when you complete a row you are awarded points, however, when you complete levels you are awarded stars.

Bejewelled twist has brought in a variety of new modes; let’s take a look at some of the modes here:

Classic mode.

Classic mode is the starting block for all bejeweled players; destroy all the regular gems and some new additions including the bomb gem and doom gems.

Zen mode.

Zen mode brings a lighter side to bejeweled twist, the stress-free mode if you like, simply play the game without any additions. This can be a useful spot to get started before jumping into the harder modes.

Blitz mode.

Maybe it is the exact opposite that you are looking for? Well when you unlock the blitz mode, you can get down to some serious business; it is a frantic five minutes of point scoring, block busting game fun.

Challenge mode.

The challenge mode is a personal favourite of mine. Unlike the other modes you have to progress through a series of tests and challenges, and there are a massive 104 challenges to progress through before you get to the end.

Apart from the obvious development in the way you twist your gems from Pop Cap Games; the developers of Bejeweled Twist have concentrated on the game modes and therefore the longevity of the game has increased significantly. For me, with the addition of so many modes means there is something for every gamer and if you have been hooked by bejeweled before then it is likely that you will love all the different modes.

The Case

“Susan, is that you? Susan? I’m scattering these tapes to increase our chances of being found. The legend is real. This is not a stunt. I’m a graduate student. My name’s Alison Sterling and I come from Strayer University. Susan? Is that you? Susan, is that you? Leave me alone, leave me alone! No! “

Four graduate students go missing while travelling near rural Blackpool, England. Through investigation of the local Dire Grove Manor, players will find clues to the whereabouts of the students and learn much more about the findings that these students have come across. Finding each student in the surrounding area in suspended animation reveals that a spell must be broken to save these kids from the Banshee, who, through the entranced students threatens come back to life. Thanks to a number of video tapes strewn about the grounds of the hotel and the surrounding areas, players will learn vital information that the students have uncovered. Using this information, you must solve puzzles, seek extra clues, attain useful objects, and decipher the relics of the ancient Celtic world.

Game Play

This Big Fish Games instalment is nonlinear, meaning tasks are not numbered or set in an order, but there are tasks that will be impossible without proper items, this will require some intelligent thinking on the player’s part. Though most of the tasks in the game may be completed in any order, the following walk through will help any amateur be a success in Dire Grove.

Some items in the game that you can click on are not vital to the storyline or the game play but are fun objects to look at, make move, animate, etc… There are also puzzles throughout the game that can be skipped, if the player finds them too difficult. However, the final puzzle in the Ruins is not even though it is quite tricky. The solution is contained in the walk through below.

When an area of the screen glimmers, or sparkles, this indicates that a hidden object game is located there. Hidden object games are timed games where the screen will depict an area overrun with items. The cluttered mess will be hiding, 12 items to be found. Clicking on the item as you find it crosses it off a list on the bottom of the screen and you can proceed to the rest of the items on the list. Hints are allowed and a hint clock will count-down between hints, so the player knows when they will be allowed their next hint. Wrong clicks, I.E. clicks that are not made on items on the list, are penalized on the timer. Completing a hidden object game will reward players with a valuable item for their inventory.

Each item that you pick up will be added to your inventory, and any small tasks is listed in non-bold italic. The main areas you will be travelling to will be listed in bold letters, while the ancient relics you must find are shown in bold and italic letters.

Game Walkthrough

Welcome to Dire Grove

You find yourself on a dark, deserted, snowy, road with a broken down vehicle and no way to call for help. In the distance is an abandoned car.

Video Cassettes

Approach the car, to investigate what is inside. You will find a strange note and a video camera in this car. There is a tape in the camera. Using the “Crime Computer” in the lower right-hand of the computer screen, you can view this video tape.

Carjack

After viewing the video, you then open the locked glove box. The combination is four characters, and there are two others (M6) carved into the glove box door. This M6 is also seen on the license plate of the abandoned car: JXH2M6. When JXH2 are entered, the glove compartment unlocks to reveal a trunk key. Inside the trunk is a hidden object puzzle with twelve items to uncover. When you have finished finding all twelve, a carjack is added to your inventory.

On the Grounds

Room Key

Make your way down the lane by following the footprints in the snow. You will shortly come across the Dire Grove Hotel.

You will find an ID card by the entrance to the hotel. The ID card belongs to one of the missing students, Alison.

Enter the hotel

Play a hidden object game located at the check-in desk. Once the twelve objects are found, you will add a room key to your inventory.

Hammer

Proceed into a large sitting room, where you will perform one more hidden object game the reward for this hidden object game is a hammer.

Snow Shovel

Head up the stairs and you will come across another hidden object game at a hallway table. After completion of this, you will receive a snow shovel for your efforts.

Generator Instructions

Using your inventoried room key, enter the room on the right; this room will now be known as the Nautical Room. Unlock the chest at the foot of the bed by solving a word puzzle. You will find an instruction sheet within the chest. The instructions are for the generator.

Mattress

Head back out into the hallway and into the room across from this one. This room is the Pink Room.

The bed is a hidden object game. Click on it and solve the hidden object puzzle, finding twelve items, and earning a mattress for your inventory.

Nails

Head back downstairs to the lobby.

Behind the check-in desk will be another hidden object game. The reward for finding all twelve items will be a handful of nails.

Garage Door Opener

Head back outside to the hotel’s grounds and make your way to the rear of the building.

There is a small fountain near the generator and a garage door opener beneath it.

Using the snow shovel you retrieved indoors dislodge the garage door opener and add it to your inventory.

Sledgehammer

Make your way to the garage.

Use the opener to open the door and reveal another hidden object game. You will earn a sledgehammer for your expert seeking skills.

Valve

Look for a valve hanging from the rafters.

Swing the hanging hook nearby to knock it down and put it in your inventory.

The Leak

Return to the hotel and make your way upstairs to the bathroom.

Using your sledgehammer, you can break through the already crumbling bathroom floor and create a hole. This will cause a pipe to burst, and you will need to find a way to stop the leak before continuing.

Crowbar

Return to the garage, where you will be presented a new hidden object game, this time with a crowbar as the prize.

Make your way to the manhole outside the garage.

Use your newly acquired crowbar to open the lid and click the valve to shut off the water.

Return to the bathroom and place your inventoried mattress over the hole. Kick it a few times and it will fall through to the manager’s office.

Hop down into the manager’s office.

Boathouse Key

Complete a hidden object game at the top desk to receive a key.

Mobile Phone Charger

Return to the sitting room and play the hidden object game within. You will receive a phone charger.

Saw

Make your way back upstairs and enter the Pink Room. The hidden object game will, yet again, be the bed. Your reward for completion is a saw.

Head back outside to the grounds and find your way to the boathouse.

Small Board

The key from the manager’s office will unlock the boathouse, here you will find a hidden object game that will produce a small board for your inventory.

Using the small board, you will then replace the missing rung on the tree next to the hotel. You will need you hammer and nails from the inventory, as well.

Scrap of Paper

You must then climb the tree in an attempt to retrieve a scrap of paper that is lodged in its branches.

Using the saw, cut down the branch on which the note is lying, climb back down, and pick up the scrap.

Lighter

Return to the hotel and enter the manager’s office to complete a hidden object game. You will inventory a lighter from this game.

Safe Code

Head back upstairs and make your way to the library, where you will see a mirror with a scrap of paper stuck to it.

Read the paper to learn a four-number code.

Toolbox Key

Returning to the manager’s office, you will find a safe hidden behind a painting.

Use the code to unlock the safe and retrieve a key from inside.

Wire Cutters

Return back outside to the garage.

Find the toolbox on the shelf and unlock it using the key from the manager’s office.

Retrieve a pair of wire cutters from the toolbox.

Oars

Make your way back inside and upstairs to the Nautical Room.

You will find an electrical outlet below the framed picture.

Plug the mobile phone charger into the outlet.

Locate the oars above the bed.

Clip the ropes securing the oars, using the wire cutters.

Inventory the Oars for a later time.

Urn

Return to the boathouse and perform a hidden object task.

You will receive an urn for your inventory.

Room Key

Use the oars to paddle the boat out onto the lake.

Retrieve the room key from the frozen waters.

Fisherman’s Relic

Continue rowing the boat to the Fisherman’s Shack.

Inside, you will find a sleeping student holding an artefact. Click on the item to view it.

Solve the puzzle of the relic to receive the Fisherman’s Relic for your inventory.

Rope

Using the room key you found on the ice, make your way back to the hotel and let yourself into the locked guest room on the second floor. This is Alison’s Room (the missing girl).

Pick up the note you find on the floor.

Proceed out the window into the graveyard, where you will find another hidden object game.

Receive a rope for your inventory and use it to climb back into the hotel room from whence you just came.

The Town

Leave through the front doors to the grounds.

Past the fountain, you will find yourself at an old covered bridge.

Cross the bridge using your rope to swing across the large, gaping hole.

Continue onto the crossroads.

Veer right, towards the statue, and make your way to the Town.

Ice Pick

Enter the grocery store. You will find another hidden objects task to complete.

You will find an ice pick to add to your inventory.

Axe

Continue on to the back of the shop, here you will find a store room.

Open the cabinet on the right and find an axe for you to pick up.

Snow Shoes

Follow your course to the door in the far right corner of the room.

Make your way downstairs to the basement and find the grate near the stairs. You will discover snow shoes behind it.

Use the car jack to raise the bars and take the snow shoes with you.

Meat

You will find a hidden object puzzle in the large freezer.

Take the frozen meat you receive with you back upstairs.

You will find a microwave in the store room.

Place the frozen meat in the microwave and push the green button.

Take the resulting thawed meat with you.

The Woods

Make your way back to the woods just outside the hotel.

Find a pile of logs and, using your axe, chop the logs into wood.

Take the wood with you.

Lock De-icer

Return to the hotel and the locked second floor room.

Let yourself out the window and into the graveyard.

Complete the hidden object game to receive a lock deicer for your inventory.

The Wolf

Travel through the graveyard until you come to a split tree between two roads.

Use your meat to pacify the wolf that is waiting in the tree.

Choose the left path.

Feather

Make your way to the frozen banks of the river.

Use your ice pick to crack through the ice and retrieve the feather.

Bolt Cutters

Return to the split tree and take the right-side road now.

Find yourself at a hunting lodge.

Enter the lodge and complete the hidden object game to gain bolt cutters for your stash.

Hunter’s Relic

Locate the iced-over door on the right-hand side.

Chip away the ice from the handle using the ice pick, then pass through the door.

Locate the sleeping girl in the bathtub. She is holding a relic.

Solve the relic’s puzzle to receive the Hunter’s Relic for your inventory.

The Museum

Make your way back to the graveyard, back up the rope, back out of the hotel, and back across the bridge to the town.

Find the Dire Grove Historical Museum across the street from the grocery store.

Cut through the chains with your bolt cutters and enter the Museum.

Fire Extinguisher

Enter the main room of the Museum and find the fire extinguisher.

Using your hammer, break the glass which has the fire extinguisher in it, and add it to your items.

Coin

After retrieving the fire extinguisher, veer left into the Gift Shop.

Locate the hidden object game at the cash register.

Receive a coin for your inventory.

Ice Scraper

Return back to the main room of the Museum and make your way up the stairs.

Play the hidden object game at the top of the stairs to receive an ice scraper.

Film Reel

Head down the upstairs hall to the Museum’s office.

Once inside, complete a hidden object puzzle for a film reel for you to inventory.

The Electrical Box

Exit through the office’s window.

Scrape the ledge with the ice scraper to remove the slippery ice before heading out.

Open the electrical box that you will find out on the ledge.

Solve the puzzle by connecting the wires properly until you successfully shut of the power.

Metal Tongs

Go back inside through the window.

Return to the hallway at the top of the stairs.

Play the hidden object game there for a pair of metal tongs.

The Blacksmith’s Room

Head back downstairs and locate the locked door.

Next to the door will be a puzzle to complete.

Solving the puzzle will unlock the door to the Blacksmith’s Room.

The Blacksmith’s Relic

Upon entering the Blacksmith’s Room, you will see a student seated in the alcove on the right side of the room.

Click on the relic on his lap and find the puzzle to be completed.

Upon completion, receive the Blacksmith’s Relic.

The Farm

Leave the town and make your way back to the crossroads.

Choose the path on the left, which is now safe due to the power being switched off.

Silver Key

Follow the path until you get to the cottage.

Enter the cottage and find the hidden objects area on the right.

Play the game to receive a silver key.

Fallen Beam

Leave the cottage and head to the barn.

To unlock the barn door, you must use the lock dicer and then the silver key.

Enter the barn and climb the ladder into the loft.

Once in the loft, find the hidden object game and play to receive a fallen beam.

Coin

Exit the barn and find your way back to the cottage.

Inside the cottage will be another hidden object game.

Complete the game and take the coin you receive with you.

Wrench

Use your fallen beam to build a bridge across the caved-in floor of the cottage.

Pass over to the other side of the cottage and enter the next room.

You will see a wrench inside a drawer. Take the wrench with you.

Ladder

Clicking on the pile of snow at the far end of the room will reveal a second story to the room.

Return to the barn and retrieve the ladder.

The Farmer’s Relic

Return to where you just came from and use the ladder to climb to the second floor.

Find Alison hanging from the ceiling and click on her. She is holding a relic.

Solve the relic’s puzzle to earn The Farmer’s Relic.

Spark Plug

Exit the cottage to find the lawnmower.

Use your wrench to loosen the spark plug and take it with you.

Back to the Hotel

Power up the Hotel

Make the journey back to the hotel and find yourself to the generator.

Follow these steps to restore power to the hotel (note-these steps are listed on the “Generator Instructions” in your inventory):

Insert the spark plug

Flip the power switch

Put the selector button to the “up” position

Hit the primer button four times

Hit the throttle lever twice

Pull the ignition cord three times

Coin

Find your way back to the locked second floor room and out the window to the graveyard.

Zoom in to see the bars on the right-hand side.

Using your metal tongs, retrieve one more coin from behind bars.

The Hunting Lodge

Return to the hunting lodge via the split tree.

Find the hidden object game above the fireplace.

Receive potato chips as your reward for completing the task.

Town Centre

Travel back to the town via the graveyard, the hotel, the bridge, and the crossroads.

Seeds

Find the vending machine in front of the grocery store.

Using the three coins you have gathered, purchase seeds from the vending machine and add them to your inventory.

Kerosene

Enter the grocery store and find the hidden objects.

Your reward will be a can of kerosene. Take this with you.

Uber Glue

Make your way to the back of the store and down the stairs to the basement.

Find a hidden objects challenge in the freezer and take the Uber Glue with you.

Hunting Lodge

Make a trek back to the hunting lodge (crossroads, bridge, hotel, graveyard, split tree, lodge).

Once inside, find the lantern.

Fill the lantern with your kerosene and add the filled lantern to your inventory.

The Farm

Return to the farm (split tree, graveyard, hotel, bridge, crossroads, and farm).

Mobile Phone

Make your way into the cottage, cross the beam and enter the back room.

Find a gap in the floorboards and shine your lantern down into it.

Find the mobile phone in the hole and pick it up.

The Dire Groves Hotel

Make your trek back to the hotel.

Find your way into the manager’s office and down the stairs to the basement.

Salt and Piece of Hose

Find salt on the shelves and a hose on the wall.

Cut a length of hose off with the wire cutters and add the salt and hose to your inventory.

Acetylene Torch

Below the shelf, you will find a broken acetylene torch.

Using your length of hose and Uber glue, repair the torch and inventory it.

Ashes

Return to the main room of the hotel.

Locate the fireplace and light a fire in it using your lighter and your wood pieces.

Use your fires extinguisher to put out the fire.

Collect the resulting ashes in your urn.

Alison’s Suitcase Combination

Go upstairs to the Nautical Room and locate the phone charger (you plugged it in here earlier).

Plug the mobile phone into the charger.

Click on the phone’s screen to reveal a puzzle. Complete the puzzle to retrieve a message.

The last four digits of Alison’s phone number are the combination for her suitcase. Make a mental note of them.

Runes Paper

Head back to Alison’s Room and locate her suitcase, using the aforementioned code to open it.

Collect the slip of paper inside with codes to deciphering runes on it

Archaeologist’s Tent

Exit the hotel and find your way past the cottage.

Finding yourself at a snow-covered bridge, use your acetylene torch to melt the snow away from your path.

Glass Vial

Enter the Archaeologist’s tent on the left. There will be a hidden object area contained within.

Inventory the glass vial from your game.

Transcript

Locate the tape player on a table.

Use your tape reel to repair it and you will receive the transcript of the recording for your inventory.

The Dire Groves Hotel

Return to the hotel entrance and locate the thermometer.

Break the thermometer with your hammer.

Use your glass vial to collect the mercury and add the mercury-filled vial to your inventory.

The Ruins

Return to the Archaeologist’s tent and proceed past it.

You will find yourself at the Ruins.

Solve the puzzle at the Ruins.

HINT: The solution to the puzzle is contained in your Crime Computer. Over four of the tiles representing the crime tapes is a shape; this shape corresponds to the puzzle and should be placed in the same slot as it is in the Crime Computer.

Missing Ladder

When the puzzle is complete, a hidden tunnel will open up.

Ahead of you in the tunnel is a hole, where you will need to use a ladder to descend.

Return to the cottage where you have left the ladder.

You will find the ladder and Alison missing.

Return back to the tunnel, where the ladder will have turned up.

Follow the tunnel until you find the four students circled around a glowing orb.

Enter the orb.

The Five Altars

You will find yourself faced by five rooms.

Each room houses a stone altar.

Feather

Enter the first room to your left.

Solve the riddle: I gather dust and make arrows fly true before jotting it down in a letter to you.

Using the page from Alison’s suitcase, translate the word “Feather” into Gaelic and place those letters on the altar.

Choose your feather from your inventory and place it on the altar.

Seeds

Proceed to the next room going left to right.

Solve this riddle: A grain of hope and the reaper’s toil my body sends life through the rock and soil.

Translate the word “Seeds” onto the altar.

Place your packet of seeds on the altar.

Salt

Find the next room on the left.

Solve the riddle: I am what’s left when water dries from the sweat of your brow to the tears in your eyes.

Translate the word “Salt” onto the altar.

Place your salt on the altar.

Ashes

Enter the fourth room.

Solve the riddle: All life’s variances of form, mass, and hue soon wither to me ‘neath the grate and the floo.

Translate the word “Ashes” onto the altar.

Place the urn of ashes on the altar.

Mercury-filled Vial

Make your way into the final room.

Solve the riddle: Messenger god of trade and exchange, my size relies on the brightest star’s range.

Translate the word “Mercury” onto the altar.

Place the vial of mercury on the altar.

The End (Final scene)

Reporter: Can you tell us the name of the “good Samaritan“who helped you?

Student: I was asked not to give a name, but I can show you his business card. (Holding up the Mystery Case Files business card)

Extra: Special Edition- Golden Felix

There is an extra game contained in the Special Edition of Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove. This game follows back through the hotel, the grocery store, a secret room, and back to the hotel. When you complete all the tasks in this final hunt, you will be faced with a riddle. The riddle and its solution are below:

The President’s address (1600)

Multiplied by the square root of 9 (3)

Added to the number of yards in a mile (1760)

Added to the year the King left the building (1977)

Subtracted by Pac Man ghosts (4)

Added to decimal translation of the binary number 101011101011 (2795)

Multiplied by Felix’s Address (333)

Subtracted by California Police Penal Code for Murder (187)

Added to Columbus sailed the ocean blue (1492)

Multiplied by letters in Rachael Ray’s middle name (8)

Subtracted by the height of the Space Needle in feet (605)

Added to Shaq’s shoe size (23)

Subtracted by Alison’s area code (206)

Divided by the atomic number of Silicon (14)

Your answer will be 2,156,246 or 215-6246. This number must be dialled on the phone back at the hotel. The recording from that phone number will be:

Well, hello again detective, nice of you to drop by. I would have stuck around for a chat, but the weather seems to have taken a turn for the worse. Feel free to make yourself at home, but I would not dally if I were you. The man with the inky bird has been extremely busy in the dark. There is something he would like to show you. Clicky, Clicky detective. I would not want to spoil the surprise.

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Summary

Hidden object fans will rejoice in a different way to test their searching skills, while mystery fans will love the very involved cases at hand. The supernatural element adds a fun, creepy, and spine-tingling aspect to a game franchise that never seems to run out of terrific ideas. You may not be travelling to deserted, snowy, old villages anytime soon, and that may be in part to the extremely chilling tale of Dire Grove, but you will enjoy hours of clicking at home… With all the lights firmly in the on position of course!

Upon solving the case from the last game, you find yourself trapped in a remote village of Dire Grove; this is due to a terrible snowstorm. As you get yourself nearer to the village, there are many abandoned cars with notes inside, which reveal unsettling information about the village and some dark forces controlling it.

Different from the previous games in the series, you now can experience a fully-fledged adventure, instead of just the usual hidden object puzzles. You explore the haunted manor as the story unravels, and all the puzzles and games are connected, making this game not only a puzzle – hidden object game, but also an adventure. It is certainly not your regular game in the Mystery Case Files series.

The graphics have also been tremendously improved, as the game features even more beautiful landscapes with even more intricate details. This makes the game slightly harder, as the objects blend into the background better.

The main part of this games game play involves you searching every part of the carnival. What sets it apart from other games in the series; is you have the ability to interview people. The twist being, before you can interview them, you must solve a puzzle, which range from hangman style word puzzles, to rearranging anagram like puzzles. Solve the puzzles, and you will get to meet the employee and interview them.

Once you have obtained all the related clues and objects, Madame Fate will then utilize her crystal ball to unveil the future. This will take you to another set of mini games, which require a lot of out of the box solutions. So you do have to use your imagination well to solve the puzzles.

This is one of the harder games in the series; therefore, if you have not played any of the other games, then I would recommend it before playing this game.

In trying to solve the mystery, you will explore and scour different rooms in the Ravenhearst manor searching for clues and objects that can assist you in piecing Emma’s diary together, which holds the key to the dark secrets of the manor.

Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst is different from the previous games, as it adds many mini games that you have to complete. Instead of going from one location to the next continuously, you will find that many of the rooms are locked, and you need to solve a mini-game to get the key and open the room. Each mini game is different throughout the story mode, which makes this game fascinating and challenging.

This game differs from the rest with its sometimes spooky game play, therefore, if you have young children that want to play the series of games, then I would advise that an adult plays the game previous to ensure your children will not be frightened.

In this game, you will also enjoy the shock ending which is almost movie like, and I believe is the best ending across the series of games.

Things turn sour when the largest diamond in the world, ‘the World’s Hope,’ has been stolen while being displayed in the city Plaza. It is your jobs to capture the thief/s and return the world’s largest diamond.

There is a whole new set of games in Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects as well. Instead of the usual location-to-location search, there are now hidden locations that you have to unravel. The only way you access these hidden locations is to find items that are hidden among other clues, which is not easy, and this is where Prime Suspects differs from Huntsville.