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Dominic Crane’s Dreamscape Mystery was available as a giveaway on February 13, 2022!
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Dominic Crane's been having recurring dreams about places he's never been to. He doesn't know what to make of it, and goes to his shrink hoping he will help him figure it out. Jump into this Hidden Object Adventure game and begin a journey through places you’d never imagine. Travel through eerie worlds and navigate through a maze of puzzles to uncover the meaning behind the mysterious dreams, in Dominic Crane’s Dreamscape Mystery!
Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10; CPU: 1.0 GHz; RAM: 512 MB; DirectX: 8.0; Hard Drive: 152 MB
123 MB
$9.99
I've been playing this game for several hours which I downloaded on the Toomky Games website. I am playing on Linux Mint 20.3 64 bit using WINE (Windows Emulator). It plays smoothly and I've gone full screen, windowed and wide screen with no issue. That said, this is one of the strangest HOGs I've played. First you seem to wander from room to room with no clear reason why you need to. There is no sparkles to guide you, to a pile and if you hover your cursor over the piles you just did, you find nothing to collect adding to the confusion. The doors require keys but, no clear cut way to get those keys. Need a hint? Good luck with that because the hint does not work in every room and you are penalized if you click randomly. When you manage to get a puzzle, the skip button is painfully slow, and some of those puzzles have no directions so you're just wasting time flipping tiles or guessing the correct placement of pictures, colored balls or in recreating a picture on the wall. The pieces move but, no guide to let you know you've chosen the correct placement by locking the piece or dimming it so you know to build around it. The only puzzle that locks when correctly solved is the jigsaw puzzles and it's pretty easy to build from the border out but the paintings have no borders you can use or if it does, they're of no help to let you know you've lined the pieces correctly. You have no notes/log to thumb through and there is no map to use. You do a lot of back tracking and it's not clear why you need some of the items which do not carry over once you finally get the key. The keys open each level apparently but other than the odd animal or fantasy character, there doesn't seem to be a mission clearly laid out, nothing to collect to keep like swords, apples or coins. The graphics are quite dated. I usually turn off voiced dialogues and music. And usually there is some sort of story board but not here. You interact with the animals but it's more like they tell you to do them a favor and then you get a key or some other tool to use but you don't know where. This is a frustrating game. Still it is challenging if only because basically you're on your own.
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There is no sparkles to guide you, to a pile and if you hover your cursor over the piles you just did, you find nothing to collect adding to the confusion should have read: There are no sparkles to let you know you need to search until you hover your mouse over the piles. They sparkle with the magnifying glass, even after you searched the worded items, the pile will still appear you need to search it wasting your time returning to the pile only to see you don't need to search it. The sparkles do not disappear after you've exhausted that search adding to the confusion.
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Can't even download it.
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Game is running extremely slow. Unable to play it.
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"Failed to load the game data. File seems corrupted."
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A fairly enjoyable hidden object/puzzle/adventure game that's new to me. Installed and running fine on Win 10; note that upon first running, it said it wanted to install "direct play" but allowed me to say no (with a warning that the game might not work well) and it's working fine. My reasoning was that it's an older game, so chances are I have a later and better version of what they wanted to install.
I like that there's a nice mix of hidden object games and puzzles. Biggest negative is that oddly, when you open a puzzle, there are no instructions as to what to do with it. Some were fairly easy to figure out, but a couple stumped me (in terms of just knowing what it wanted me to do, not with actually solving it), so eventually I found a walkthrough; again, I didn't need the solutions, I needed to know what to do. Similarly, no map, and the hints aren't always available to show next steps, so once in a while, having a walkthough to tell me where to go next was useful. On the plus side, while so far the puzzles haven't been too difficult, they are challenging enough to make it entertaining, and, yay, the hidden object puzzles are light enough to see everything and use proper language (only one obvious misspelling so far.)
Overall, worth installing if you like this type of fame (and I really do.)
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neme,
Thank you for your feedback; Unfortunately, the amount of time I spent on yesterdays review and tomorrows
game I've had no time to even play today's game yet.
I'm still working on tomorrows limited giveaway which has taken many hours of time to complete. Still got to transfer it over from my written notes (eight pages of A5 paper plus many screen captures) to a document so that I can paste it to the giveaway comments.
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Looks like nice, sharp graphics. What I always want to know about these games is: Can the mini-games/puzzles be skipped. Sometimes I just don't understand what they want me to do, or I don't want to bother, and worst scenario, I get stuck and can't move on. So-I like being able to click on SKIP.
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I played this way back in Nov. 2010. Don't know if I got it here or not but I'm frugal and only d/l free games. I recommend this one!
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Dominic Crane’s Dreamscape Mystery has never been given away before.
I spent an inordinate amount of time reviewing yesterdays 3D breakout game; (over 7 hours), and have still a long way to go before finishing the review for Mondays limited giveaway (which is well worth checking out); so, I doubt I'll have time to post any review for todays game.
If I do grab some time, I'll post some images and video links, but no promises.
Have a great day, regards Whiterabbit-uk.
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Whiterabbit-uk,
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