

It's just a little too restrictive for comfort, but clearly geared towards encouraging in-app purchases. There are enough different colors and patterns in the puzzle to make it a rather quick-build for a puzzle with this many pieces, and although it's size is not indicate anywhere on the box, it all comes together as a completed puzzle that is roughly 28 inches by 19 inches. Waiting for the energy bar to refill is frustrating when one is in the zone and keen to play more of Letters From Nowhere: A Hidden Object Mystery. The Kaffrey 'Dine and Crash' 1,000-piece puzzle turned out to be a lot of fun, mainly because of its rather strange image. The problem lies in the stop/start approach that this game takes. While I never felt particularly drawn into the storyline of Letters From Nowhere: A Hidden Object Mystery, focused on moving onto the next quest, such familiar yet entertaining mechanics kept me keen. Again, it does a sound job of keeping things different. There are hints available too, which help ease the process, but they come at a price that's best attained through spending real money.Īlongside conventional hidden object scenes are a few mini-games, mostly involving simple puzzles and jigsaws.

Sure the general theme of finding objects remains the same, but switching from silhouettes to names and slightly cryptic clues ensures it's interesting. It mixes things up, with many objectives proving quite different. Letters From Nowhere: A Hidden Object Mystery succeeds there reasonably well. It's a simple concept but one that has known properties when it comes to being oddly beguiling. Steadily leveling up through such means, players then have more quests to negotiate and so forth. Players complete quests involving finding certain objects in various different scenes leading to the acquisition of experience points. Unlike many other Hidden Object games, Letters From Nowhere: A Hidden Object Mystery is a freemium experience. While there are things to do, and it's a quite entertaining if shallow Hidden Object game, that energy bar seems to reduce to 0 far too quickly. There's a stop/start effect to Letters From Nowhere: A Hidden Object Mystery that means it's sometimes tricky to get attached to.
