Fear for Sale: The House on Black River Collector's Edition

Ghosts can be quite scary under normal circumstances, but they get even more terrifying if they start interfering with your life. While there are not many ways to get back at them for doing so, the lore that accounts for spirits also contains methods of dealing with them, or even rituals to banish the said ghosts from the living world once and for all.

Fear for Sale: The House on Black River Collector's Edition is a hidden object adventure game in which your role is to investigate a mystery and find a missing person, while dealing with an angry spirit in the meantime. The gameplay mechanics are the same as they are in every other HOPA out there, but it would seem like this one contains a lot more detail and much more interaction.

The story is quite straightforward as well, but it’s pretty engaging and intriguing from the first few minutes. As such, you play the role of Emma Roberts, a woman who’s assigned to the disappearance of a man by the name of Jack Neilson. However,  Alex Dean and a few other characters enter the picture as well, since the plot intertwines past and present events.

As far as the game world is concerned, the designers have given it their all to create a very lively and interactive environment. Each scene contains many different objects and hot spots that can be investigated, not to mention all the rest of the items that can be used, yet they have no use in the actual gameplay. Thus, everything feels a lot more cozy and realistic, which is great if you are looking for immersion.

The actual puzzles are not very difficult either, regardless of what difficulty level you happen to change. Most of them require you to move items around and find the required pattern in order to unlock some kind of mechanism, but the theme is pretty dynamic in this regard. The hidden object sequences are quite demanding, and their mechanics change on a regular basis.

In the end, Fear for Sale: The House on Black River Collector's Edition delivers on all fronts, especially when it comes to content, story and visual design. Thus, if you are looking for a top-notch HOPA, this should certainly be on your list.

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