Enigmatis: Ghosts of Maple Creek Collector’s Edition

K. Fields
2023-12-31T17:22:55-05:00
Video Games

I finished my last game of 2023 on the final day of the year. It was Enigmatis: Ghosts of Maple Creek Collector’s Edition, a hidden object puzzle adventure game from Polish developer Artifex Mundi. In Enigmatis, you play a detective trying to solve a mystery in a small town in Vermont. You move from place to place gathering useful items to add to your inventory. Items are usually obtained by solving a variety of puzzles. The most predominant type of puzzle by far is hidden object. I hadn't played a hidden object game in a while so it was fun to return to this style of game. Thankfully, Enigmatis had a handy hint button which I used frequently to go from one puzzle to the next. I was more interested in solving puzzles than I was wandering around town wasting time. After several hours, I completed the game. It ended with "To be continued," however, because Enigmatis is actually a trilogy. It is followed by Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood and Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala. Because I have the collector's edition, there was a bonus adventure to play as well. It was a prequel entitled The Ghosts of the Past. I finished the bonus adventure but I'm not motivated to play the sequels yet. I will save them for sometime down the road.