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Mysteries of the Undead: The Cursed Island Giveaway
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Game Giveaway of the day — Mysteries of the Undead: The Cursed Island

Explore the zombie island and break an ancient curse!
$9.99 EXPIRED
User rating: 22 28 comments

Mysteries of the Undead: The Cursed Island was available as a giveaway on May 24, 2020!

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Explore the zombie island and break an ancient curse in Mysteries of the Undead! What caused the disaster? Was it a virus or magic? Many years ago a dark blight turned the citizens of a small island into bloodthirsty zombies. A research team from the floating laboratory Perseus is the only one capable of eliminating the threat of an epidemic.

System Requirements:

Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10; CPU: 1.4 GHz; RAM: 1024 MB; DirectX: 9.0; Hard Drive: 598 MB

Publisher:

ToomkyGames

Homepage:

https://www.bigfishgames.com/games/7615/mysteries-of-the-undead/

File Size:

243 MB

Price:

$9.99

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#13

Thank you to all for your feedback, especially to those helping Majk :)

Reply   |   Comment by Whiterabbit-uk  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#2

Mysteries of the Undead The Cursed Island
In Brief
Mysteries of the Undead The Cursed Island is a hidden object game with lots of mini games included.
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You can see mostly positive Steam community reviews of The Cursed Island HERE and other reviews, technical issues, and advise on finding hidden objects via the Big Fish forums HERE
Also, if you need further help you can see a full set of ten walk-through videos (spoiler alert) from Meridas 'Play with Heart' group HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
The Game
A famous scientist virologist is the protagonist. She is invited to take part in an expedition to the island, where many years ago the outbreak of an unknown virus disease wiped out its population. A tribe used to live in the island, they believed in existence of an evil spirit turning people into bloodthirsty zombies. The spirit had been confined into a totem which was hidden in a secret temple to keep it under control and never let free. And so it was for many centuries until the island became a resort.
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Once, a tourist lost his way in the forbidden lands and came across a road to the temple. He found the totem and casually broke it. The spirit was released and the deadly virus spread all over the island. But even being broken the totem possesses power to constrain the virus spreading outside the island. The totem's parts were hidden by tribal successors, and being found these parts could get survivors saved and zombies exterminated.
The expedition arrived to the destination point on "Perseus" - a huge floating platform. The team has to save the island and prevent the virus from further spreading.
Features
15 HOG scenes
13 mini games
40 unique game locations
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Reply   |   Comment by Whiterabbit-uk  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+20)
#15

Cannot hand the water bottle over. Have uninstalled and reinstalled. Nothing. Cannot play any further, What is the point.

Reply   |   Comment by Clare  –  3 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)

Clare, did you fill the water bottle with water?

Reply   |   Comment by Rufus  –  Last year  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#14

One early scene which had an error, was while looking at the contents inside the buss which takes place after you have left the ship after having left the island (or 3rd set of scenes if you prefer).

One of the three feathers which it asks the player to find, is on a box that simply won't let itself be clicked. At least not until you've got everything else and clicked the whole area again and again and again, until finally, it completes that hidden object scene. Plus there might be a problem with the paddles next to the last feather but I can't remember exactly. The important thing is that perseverance pays off here.

This by the way I found to be a common problem with many items throughout the game needing to be clicked multiple times before the object finally says "alright, alright, ya found me".

There was also a few mislabelled items near the end of the game which a user should be aware.

2 is a hunter and a cup is an umbrella.

Now I don't wish to scare people away from trying the game. It was good. There were just a few issues.

Reply   |   Comment by Mark  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)

Mark, Sometimes actions in a hidden object area give clues that are only valid the second time you visit it.

Reply   |   Comment by Rufus  –  Last year  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Rufus, Not exactly sure what you mean by that as its been now two years since I've played the game but if you take into account all the other comments about problems, I'd say the issue is solely game related. Having played a hundred of such games, I'm well versed in the mechanics and would be somewhat surprised if I had been playing the scenes in this game with anything less than a full understanding of their workings.

Reply   |   Comment by Mark  –  Last year  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#12

Have downloaded twice, unzipped and tried to install, the wrap gets clearance (yes I know to turn off AVG for games from GGotD) but the game fails to install, in fact install fails to initialize. Does not bode well for the quality of materials put out by this developer if the game won't even install. Hard to be positve this way!
Please do let me know if there is some other way to get this to work, I was looking forward to trying it out.

Reply   |   Comment by Stephen  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)
#11

Some buggs. You can't pick upp the Trident and give it to Neptun and you can't pick upp the pump and fill the inflated beach ball.

Reply   |   Comment by Svend Östergaard  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

Svend Östergaard, Sometimes some of the actions in a hidden object area only work the second time you visit it.

Reply   |   Comment by Rufus  –  Last year  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#10

Ok Win x64 Pro on D: drive. My initial take pre d/l was cheap price, Toomky is iffy quality, HOG is an old concept now. But turns out to worth shot fans.
Just did bit tutorial & a hog page. Casket turns out to be a clutch/jewelry box found by random clicks (no penalty or timer). Now & then a click might miss like I hit the key in bag & never took (needs 2x click sometimes), but when hit Hint (refills fast) the tip was to bag & click key once was accepted.
Overall 8/10 for casual fans. Pros might see 7/10 for 'raw' look. Not as fun as recent Fall of the New Age but less 'work'. Will keep, yrmv. Thanks.

Reply   |   Comment by beergas  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#9

Gave this a thumbs up, but tried to change it, after attempting to play. Yes...not my sort of game, but that aside, I found the play very slow, and dull, and not intuitive at all. After trying to get water for a half an hour, I just gave up and uninstalled. Yesterdays game is enjoyable, and silly, but a good time spender. The zombies just didn't do it for me today, but thanks for letting me try it.

Reply   |   Comment by Judi Podgurski  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#8

I tried to install but when it tried to connect to this site to verify it says "Failed to connect. Try again later"

Is there a problem on your end?

Thanks, looking forward to this one.
~Anne

Reply   |   Comment by Anne Hogan  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

I don't have any antivirus running. I tried rebooting and also tried another download of the game. Still can't connect to this site to confirm. I'll keep trying throughout the day.

~Anne

Reply   |   Comment by Anne Hogan  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#7

Another game that activates but won't install.Went to Mytoomky site and it downloaded without a hitch and installed.This only happens very rarely but it is annoying.Still....thanks to GGOTD.

Reply   |   Comment by Dusty  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Sorry, that should have been Toomkygames.com.

Reply   |   Comment by Dusty  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#6

Downloaded & installed fine on Windows 7, 64-bit. It opens up in full screen and you can't see your cursor. You need to navigate over to settings to be able to click on the Windowed version. You may have to set that a second time after you create your profile.

Be aware that some of the items asked for in Hidden Object scenes may not be called what you're used to. For example, in the first HO scene, a "Vacuum Flask" is a "Thermos Bottle" :-/ There's no voice acting in this, just background music. It's a bit dull so far. I've made it past the cogwheel puzzle so far. I "did" run the Tutorial, but there's an ancient-looking object in the lower left corner of the screen with symbols, but the game doesn't tell you anything about it, what it's for or anything. Hopefully, it will eventually. The graphics are so-so..maybe they're appropriate for a zombie story. ;-)

It looks like an okay game, just not too exciting so far. And be aware that your mouse pointer doesn't always change when you mouse over an area.

Reply   |   Comment by DelennDax7  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#5

Hey, the machine swallowed my quarter! :-((
Now what? Breaking open the machine doesn't work :-P

Reply   |   Comment by tiscrea © - The Netherlands  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)

tiscrea © - The Netherlands, you need 3 in total

Reply   |   Comment by Anu  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#4

Downloaded and installed no problem (Windows 10) Looks like just my sort of game. The graphics are clear, and the scenes are not so dark and gloomy as they often are in this genre. Thank you!

Reply   |   Comment by Fran  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#3

Here, W10 64bit, the game installed without a hitch. It's a new game for me and I really like it. It's challenging enough, with nice graphics and enough clues when needed. Enjoy your Sunday (at last we got some rain here, well.... a drop and a half) and stay safe.

Reply   |   Comment by tiscrea © - The Netherlands  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+14)
#1

After downloading files, isn't possible instal game. Where is problem?

Reply   |   Comment by Majk  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)

Majk, you didn't give us much information. Do you get the game's "setup program" screen, or not? If not, probably the GGOTD security wrapper software is being "stopped" by your AV. I use avast! and I know I have to turn its Behaviour Shield off for a few minutes to allow the GGOTD security wrapper/"activation" to work and for the game's own installer/setup screen to appear. Obviously (?) I turn the Shield ON again once that setup screen appears! You may need to do something similar on your PC, but you didn't say which AV you're using.
If there is a problem during the game's own setup program (NOT the GGOTD "connecting/activated" process) then please say what happened or didn't happen, any messages, etc.
Hope that helps.

Reply   |   Comment by Cad Delworth  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Majk, I had no issues under Windows XP. The usual advice is to disable the antivirus. My AVG antivirus does understand that the files downloaded from this site do not pose a threat, and you may not disable it.

Reply   |   Comment by Vladimir  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Majk, check if your A/V program is blocking the Setup program from running.

Reply   |   Comment by BobbyA  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Majk, I always have to reboot in Safe Mode (or turn off my virus protection software) before I can even download the game. So, I download & install before I go back to full mode.

Reply   |   Comment by DelennDax7  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Majk,
Very often your antivirus program gives a false positive to the wrapper which protects the download after the 24 hrs. Deactivate it for the short process of activating the game and it will install. Don't forget to reactivate afterwards.

Reply   |   Comment by Anu  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Majk, It will not run on Win XP

Reply   |   Comment by Quinton  –  4 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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