Hidden Object Games

Among the variety of computer entertainment hidden object games (HOGs) are quite popular. People of different ages enjoy them. Actually, there are different games for kids, teenagers and grown-ups. The games of this kind for kids train their memory, logic, help to develop thinking skills. Grown-ups mostly relax, while playing, especially in a train or plane, during coffee break, or having evening rest after a hard day. Though, HOG games are good for logic, some things are really difficult to find, and a player need to think thoroughly before he can do that.

One more advantage is that this kind of games are normally not expensive or available online for free.
Nowadays, there is a great diversity of such games, some of them look like the others. So, let's see which ones are mostly preferred by players.

- "Settlement Colossus" is an interesting and gripping game which is a mixture of HOG and a strategy. The user's task is to rebuild a destroyed settlement and find all necessary things for it. Acting like an emperor, you find food and natural resources for your inhabitants, and by all means improve their lives. All the things in the game, like wood, food, clay, etc are not really hard to find, anyway there is are different hints to help you.

- "Grace's quest: to catch an art thief" is really exciting and full of adventures. You'll definitely enjoy it if you are fond of detective stories. You play as Grace who travels around Europe in search of art thieves and her kidnapped friend. It's made up in traditions of typical HOGs. You go from one task to another, find various objects and play mini games. You are given a list of all the objects that need to be found but it's quite tricky because the list may become longer the moment you've nearly finished with it. The game is full of various quests: some are easy, some are more difficult, like finding fingerprints with a help of magnifying glass or search through bags using x-ray machine.

- "Magic Encyclopedia 3: Illusions". That's the third game of successful series.
You are Catherine, a magic academy student. She goes for a quest to find a stolen magic book and prevent the evil magician from using it. This story is really engaging and powerful. You explore a lot of places such as Egypt, China, even Atlantis.

You look for hidden staff in two worlds: the real world and the world of illusions. Finally, it is quite hard, because you find objects mostly bit by bit, and these bits are really small. Some objects can't be found until you find other ones.

- "Robinson Crusoe and the cursed pirates" is a HOG full of adventures.
Robinson Crusoe is unlucky again. He has successfully escaped from the Inhabited Island, but sailing for home, he experiences a shipwreck on an enchanted island full of ghost pirates.

To return home safely Robinson has to collect all of the cursed items, Black Spots, all around the island.
Tasks to fulfill can be a bit different: the hero needs to find objects from the list, or number of the same objects, for example, 10 spiders; sometimes he needs to put pictures in order or build up something a bit by bit.

Well, we see that all those games are set up differently and based on different stories. If you wish you can look some more various hidden object games, based on your favorite stories of adventure, romantic, western or fairy tale genre. But they all help us relax in an interesting atmosphere, train search and memory skills.

By Victor Alexandrovich Yarovoy 

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