Mystery Manor: Hidden Adventure vs Victoria
Mystery Manor: Hidden Adventure
Mystery Manor: Hidden Adventure is a uniquely complicated and challenging hidden object adventure game on Facebook. In this game, you've received an invitation by a mysterious Mr X to visit his massive manor... only to find yourself looking into every possible room at the manor, seeking for this Mr X, while helping his staff search for the items they've somehow lost. However, the manor is not what it seems. Various creatures have awaken and odd phenomena have swept across the manor, distorting each room with their dark influence. Will you be able to find the clues you need to crack the mystery behind the mystery manor?Victoria
Victoria is a horror-themed match-3 adventure game that begins with a tragic story. The protagonist in this game, Victoria Miller, lost her husband and two children in an incident involving an aggressive poltergeist. Driven by her bitter need for revenge, she decided to pick up the ancient art of hunting supernatural beings and track the poltergeist across the United States in hopes of slaying it.At its core, Victoria is a pretty standard match-3 puzzle game where you’ll need to make matches of 3 or more in order to remove the items from the playing area. Most levels require you to clear away blue tiles by matching over them but sometimes, you may be asked to make specific matches in order to use the many weapons that will eventually be available to you against the supernatural creature you’ll be fighting. However, what allows this game to stand out from the usual match-3 games out there is the creepy atmosphere it provides and the occasional jump scares that's intended to give you a solid jolt from time to time.
Overall, when it comes to immersion, Victoria hits the nail on the head. However, despite the supernatural-fighting bits, the gameplay in this game can be rather simplistic, and after some time, rather mundane. That said, considering that true horror-themed match-3 games can be pretty rare, Victoria might just fit snugly into the gaming niche it is obviously designed for.