Bonfire Stories: The Faceless Gravedigger Collector's Edition

Mysterious cases are great subjects for horror movies and video games, especially when you get to unravel them over the course of the story. It’s obviously important for the cases in question to make sense, otherwise the investigation loses its appeal if you cannot use common sense to discover clues. Things are even more exciting of there’s a bit of paranormal involved in the process, even if everything turns out to be real in the end.

Bonfire Stories: The Faceless Gravedigger is a hidden object adventure game that puts you in the role of a detective and on the tracks of a mysterious character that kidnaps people. Most of the gameplay mechanics are as classic as they can get for the genre, so your main tasks are to examine the environment, find useful items and use them to solve puzzles that unlock the way to the next scenes.

The story is quite intriguing and dark, especially since you deal with a supposed serial killer and everything takes place in a creepy setting. Hence, you are trying to investigate the curious case of The Quiet Grove resort, which is now abandoned due to some unexplained disappearances. As it happens, the responsible is a figure that goes by the name of the faceless gravedigger, and you have to find out more about him.

Spotting useful items should not be a problem for the veterans of the genre, especially if you are playing on the lower difficulty levels. However, even without the sparkles you can quickly notice out-of-place objects, so don’t expect a true challenge in this regard. The puzzles are not too hard on the brain either, even if some of them might take some time to solve, mainly because you have to move things around repeatedly.

As far as the graphics are concerned, the hand-drawn landscapes are gorgeous, even if this do not move around and you lack the 3D exploration component. The cutscenes are not bad either, although they can sometimes be a bit too sketchy and funny for the wrong reasons. Not much can be said about the voice acting either, but at least the sound effect go along neatly with the overall atmosphere.

When it’s all said and done, Bonfire Stories: The Faceless Gravedigger is a proper mystery game, and it also comes with a bit of horror if you are into that. The adventure as a whole is very exciting, even if the puzzles are not as enjoyable as they could have been.

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