Review pixelcrypt 3/5 · Mar 8, 2026
Solid Sci-Fi Action HOPA
Whenever I run out of games I am excited to play, I tend to fall back into the Hidden Object Adventure genre. They are mindless, gameplay-heavy point and click games where you can watch a podcast while satisfying a basic puzzle-solving gameplay loop. But once in a while, I actually enjoy the games to the point that I can appreciate …
Whenever I run out of games I am excited to play, I tend to fall back into the Hidden Object Adventure genre. They are mindless, gameplay-heavy point and click games where you can watch a podcast while satisfying a basic puzzle-solving gameplay loop. But once in a while, I actually enjoy the games to the point that I can appreciate all the normal elements I do in other genres - the art, the story, etc.
Paranormal Pursuit is a game I luckily found by diving into the backlog of the developer behind two of my other favorite games in the genre - Stray Souls 1 and 2. Honestly, almost all of their other games suck... but this one was pretty great. I loved the puzzles, the painterly artwork, the sci-fi / X-Men-like story, and it managed to be a kind of action thriller which I normally don't enjoy.
I don't typically even bother writing a review for games in the genre, so just know when I do it means it is one of my favorites (even if I don't rate them any higher than 3 stars usually). If you enjoy point and click games generally, I definitely recommend trying out some of the ones I've mentioned on this site - this being one of them.
Other ones off the top of my head that are my favorites: True Fear 1-3, Maze: Subject 360, and Fright by Lesta. But if you don't enjoy games with a horror theme - this, Stray Souls, or the New York Mysteries series (and most games by Five-BN) are great as well!