Joan Jade and the Gates of Xibalba

One of the first Artifex Mundi games so I appreciate seeing the progress of where they started and how they improved their HOGs over the years. Game play consists of simple hidden object scenes and a collection of around 10 mini games that get repeated but more challenging as the game goes on. Some of the mini-games I didn't care for but other like the riddles I had a good time. Each area is pretty contained so navigating through the game was pretty smooth even though the game graphics are a bit dated and make it a little difficult to notice somethings. Story was pretty straightforward and mostly followed image stills with speech bubbles which were fine. Around a 2 hour play time hit the sweet spot for this game experience. I had to turn off the custom mouse option in the menu since it was distorting the game graphics while hovered over an area. Overall while not the most exciting and engulfing game, it was a good chill HOG to pass some time and your mileage may vary depending on wheth...

Who knew that going into a jungle and looking for treasure... I mean your kids, would be such a snore? It's not even the graphics. It's not even the old school style of H.O.G. It's the puzzles...! I think I've seen that same fish puzzle like... 5-7 times?! I certainly "did" the "sokoban" one 4 times... "Did" Heh heh... Because in all honesty... The puzzles that repeat? Which is like 80% of the game... It's easier to just "skip" them then keep doing the same thing over... And over... And over again... Granted they got better... As I am familiar with the Publishers/Developers, but this....... Can the plot save them?! Well... It was nice to play a Tomb Raider... Minus the raiding and the enemy killing I suppose. Then you get to the end and... WHO IN THE HELL ARE THOSE PEOPLE?! And the entire time she is sending letters to her husband... Who is back at the police station... HOW?! TELEPORTING THEM INTO HIS HANDS?! So she is hoping and "feels him" behind her... N...

It's a dinosaur, not in size but age wise. Still it could be amusing, were it not for that unwelcome tutorial which I didn't ask for, but which after playing for 40 mins still gets in my face. If y'all want to do some research in the history of gaming, this is the one.

Seriously: how old is this game? It`s just bad: Art, story, music: everything is annoyingly slow and the HOPs are a joke. Only good thing: it reminds you of the "good ol` days" of 90s gaming. But definitely not worth such a high price.

A really stale game. The story is pretty lame and the gameplay not really interesting. The minigames are all the same and really easy and the overall game is pretty low budget and boring. Even though it ends with a cliffhanger, its not really a game you want to play a second part of. Its not really bad, but too boring and pricy to recommend it. Thats why i can recommend it

Oh sweet jesus this game is bad bad bad. Its not really a game at all really. its a collection of 5 or 6 minigames joined VERY loosely by a VERY linear story. Oh no my kids have been kidnapped, I better follow them into the jungle...thats about it. But EVERY door you try to open has a puzzle and its the same puzzles over and over. The best thing that could be done to this game would bee to have it removed from the internet, its code stripped down to its 1s and 0s and then those digits being burnt in the fires of silicon hell so no one else has to suffer through it In other words I don't recommend this game

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good

old school, graphics gritty but I liked the story and it didn't frustrate me enough to quit. i have many games I haven't played due to difficulty or requiring a controller which i am not comfortable with. I need some hands on cuz reading the instructions aren't helpful. Some things I just learn better from seeing and doing. I am currently unwilling to figure it out. But I am also running out of easy games so...

The game is so old, it flickers and is blurry on my FHD screen. It's unplayable. Not sure why Alawar is selling it in it's current state.