Mystery Puzzle Hunt Demo

Although there are many TV shows featuring brilliant private detectives and police consultants, it’s hard to imagine what kind of cases would keep them occupied in real life, since there are not many villains out there to plan elaborate crimes. However, one could always try to investigate some kind of conspiracy, because there are certainly enough of those to choose from.

Mystery Puzzle Hunt is an interesting game in which you get to solve much more realistic mysteries than in the usual games in the genre. Hence, instead of tracking down evil witches or stopping a curse from taking over the world, you have to tackle more mundane subjects, such as history and murders. The gameplay is also entirely different as well, since there are no hidden objects to find or match-3 mini-games.

Instead, each mystery comes with a few clues, and you have to send the answer by in-game email when you have it. In order to unravel the clues and come up with an answer, you can basically make use of any source you want, including the Internet, books and various other materials. Even with the might of the Internet, it might still take you a while to understand what are you searching for.

Some of the cases come with clues you can analyze, and the game provides you with a few tools that can help with that. Hence, a magnifying glass is obviously helpful when you need to make out tiny details, but probably the most important tool is the image editor. In it, you can change colors, increase or decrease the brightness, as well as rescale the picture to get a better look at the desired portion.

Whenever you are ready to turn in the answer, you must send it by email to the appropriate address. Obviously, this is a simulated in-game email service, so you do not actually have to wait for confirmation or talk to real people. It’s still a nice way to make the experience more realistic, and the interface helps a lot as well in this regard.

Even if Mystery Puzzle Hunt is a bit rough at the moment, it has the potential to evolve into something a lot more polished and engaging. Thus, it’s definitely worth a try from every puzzle fan out there.

Note: You can support the developers and the game by voting for it on Steam Greenlight.