Evil Pumpkin: The Lost Halloween

Mixed feelings about this one. The presentation is good, nice graphics and music, with tolerable voice acting and limited animation. The story is original and interesting, too. The areas are very interactive with hot zones that simply provide amusing commentary. There are also a lot of locations with very little backtracking. A nice little extra is that you can buy items to decorate a back yard with halloween items. However, this game contains extremely illogical puzzles that are almost unsolveable except by trial and error. On several occasions I simply had to use the hints button to progress and even then I remained stuck until I just tried everything on everything else to proceed. It also begins to suffer from bad translation errors near the end, possibly because playtesting didn't get as far as often? ("Watter pistol" etc.) What's worse, is that in some of the later hidden object puzzles in this game the descriptions and the item you need to find simply do not match up. Exampl...

I would have to give this game a provisional "thumb up" due to the difficulty. This is not a game for the casual player, the easily and not so easily frustrated, or anyone who does not take notes while they play. This is a very difficult game to play. (Reminds me of Deponia.) This game has some very obscure references and reading the dialogue is extremely important. (Skip dialogue at your own risk.) More importantly is remembering some absurd remark or off-topic thought of some character a chapter or two later. The clues are there, masked behind riddles that in some cases are very, very oblique, referenced in the boy's journal, various diary pages, or in some dialogue remark earlier in the game. I would like to thank Micheal who posted his playthrough in the community videos, they were very helpful. (Oddly enough he and I never got stuck in the same place. Note: Micheal's playthroughs are in German, but do not let that deter you. The playthroughs are easy enough to follow.) I ...

I do recommend this game but only if you really like Halloween, have lots of patience with puzzles, don't mind mixed quality graphics and sound, and can purchase the game for 5 dollars or less. Worse parts were the boy's voice and the ending. Best part was all the cool Halloween related scenes.

Yes it's kinda campy in terms of theme, but campy is fun for Halloween. The artwork is pretty cool and I really enjoyed the puzzles. A couple of the mini games were irritating as heck, but they are skip-able if you get too frustrated. I did enjoy the plot too. I would grade it as a 9/10 for me.

It's rare that a game so thoroughly defeats me in the way Evil Pumpkin did. It's not that I wasn't able to finish the game - a slowly-recharging hint meter and the extremely helpful denizens of YouTube ensured I would be able to brute-force my way through the trickier sections. No, Evil Pumpkin foiled me by forcing me to resort to hints over and over again. A well-designed adventure game - and make no mistake, this is more of an adventure game than a HOG, to the point that the hidden object screens are actually optional - moves players through the story in a logical fashion, presenting them with obstacles to overcome and giving them fair clues and tools to allow them to struggle their way through. Evil Pumpkin goes a different way entirely, loading itself up with nonsensical, sometimes buggy, puzzles and some of the least impressive HOGs in recent memory. On to the HOG criteria! Criteria 1: To what degree do the puzzle screens look like a thrift store vomited on my monitor? It's pr...

I love this game! I am so sad because I cannot finish it. My game is glitching at the puzzle in the "upside down labrynth" when I am doing the object search. There seems to be no key to open the chest to get the necklace. I have watched a walkthrough for the game, and my game just doesn't have the key to open to chest. Looks like I can't complete this game that I paid for... and I was really loving it too.

29.5.2020. Game #127 [h1] I bought this game to support my country. I regret it [/h1] Evil Pumpkin: The Lost Halloween might be remember on Steam for one thing and one thing only. It was the first video game ever to be released on Steam by Serbs. Being an effing Serb myself, I felt like it was my civil duty to buy this game (on sale) and support the developers. I tried hard to like this game but I just couldn’t. [h1] The sad truth about Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure (HOPA) games [/h1] While our neighbors in the north-west are making games like Serious Sam https://store.steampowered.com/app/41000/Serious_Sam_HD_The_First_Encounter/ and The Talos Principle https://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/The_Talos_Principle/, us Serbs here are mostly stuck making, almost exclusively, HOPA games. Hopa games are an interesting breed of games. They mostly consist of really detailed still images, some texts and very light puzzle solving. I actually really like HOPA games. They can b...

The game itself is quite good. However there are way too many bugs in the mini-games that prevent you from progressing further in the game. Since you can't save in stages, this means that your only option when you encounter a bug is to restart the game from the very beginning. I restarted the game twice before I just gave up.

It was a quite nice hidden object point and click, until it bugged in a way that was absulutely game-breaking. I tried everything to get around the bug, to no avail. It was early enough into the game so I don't feel I got my money's worth, even at $10. Pros: Looks good, solid gameplay Con: Literally game breaking bugs

10 out of 10 Evil Pumpkin is the perfect game for Halloween and a wonderful HOG/PAC despite some of the negative reviews. This is an Advanced Hidden Object so it is not for n00bs to the genre. This game seems to focus more on Puzzles and Point and Click than Hidden Object and the atmosphere is perfect for Halloween. The story is fun and keeps you engaged. This game is not difficult unless you are relatively new to 'point and click' games. You will have to use your brain to solve some of the puzzles but nothing too difficult. There are guides if you are not sure what to do next -which I used a few times. My 5th grade niece played through the game without any issue. I found this game pleasantly challenging in parts so it is not so 'mindless' as some of the more basic entries in this genre. I was able to earn all the achievements. All HOG/PAC developers should pay attention to this game. I would love to see more games like this. Highly recommend to anyone wishing for a true chall...