The Secret Society: Mystery

I have enjoyed playing the two Christmas pictures in this game but those are about the only two pictures I have really enjoyed. I gave it a 4 rating due to the graphics you provide, they are indeed outstanding. But in saying that how you hide objects and the difficulty to pick them up leaves me frustrated and sometimes screaming at my I-pad. Nothing frustrates me more than to have tapped on the object two or three times and then use a hint only to find it goes to the same place I was tapping. I also do not like to have to connect to social media to be able to complete a scene or rather a collection. I feel if you found all 5 items in the collection you should get the prize for collecting them not have to find or buy other objects to complete. I also think if you have looked for a fish in a particular picture it should remain the same fish each time not changing from a real one to a stone one or a picture of a fish, it is ok to have a different fish in each picture but it should remain the same in that picture. Also the cost gets too high as you go up in levels, my income does not change as I solve your puzzles. Some of the complaints go for some of your other games as well so I have to decide how many I can afford and which one please me the most. I will say bye to this one.

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As an experienced Hunter in these types of games I am sorely disappointed in this one. The amount of energy you are allowed lets you play one maybe two games before you’re out of energy and have to buy more. The prizes you’re supposed to get for completing a puzzle are nonexistent. At least 50% of the time you get nothing But I message saying “better luck next time”. The puzzles themselves, while a good concept of having to complete a puzzle in order to open a puzzle, have made the objects you’re supposed to find too small and too difficult to find so that you end up running out of time and then you have to buy something to help you complete the puzzle. The puzzles should be challenging, not completely impossible to complete without having to buy something. And everything you have to buy is way more expensive than whatever it is you have in your cash so you have to go to the store and buy more rubies or coins or something else. I understand making money. I’m an accountant and very pro business. But there ARE limits. This group is simply too greedy for my taste. Too bad because I tend to spend a few hundred dollars a month on puzzles I like. But I don’t feel that I should have to spend a few hundred dollars every time I want to play a game. The creators need to wrap their heads around the concept of small profits over a lot of people. Coca-Cola has managed to become a multibillion dollar company by making $.02-$.03 on every can of Coke.

I HAAAATE THIS NEW UPDATE!!! I've enjoyed playing this game for a couple of years now. The graphics are beautiful and the puzzles are challenging. However, I do get a bit frustrated at times. Each update brings a new "quest". The achievements in these quests are virtually impossible to attain unless you spend money (which I do not do because well... I'm cheap) to buy items needed to play the new boards. Then when the time period is up for the new quest, you can only get a few of the needed items from one or two other boards and that takes FOREVER. I think once a quest is over, we should have unlimited access to all the boards while we wait PATIENTLY for the next update. It's bad enough to have to wait for the correct "mode" and then not get what we are hoping for time and time again. I also think the items should stay the same and not change each time you play that picture. A dog is a dog, not 4 different dogs. Especially when the "silhouette" does not even come close to resembling what I'm looking for! C'mon!!!! But overall, this game is challenging enough to help me escape my circus of a life for a few minutes throughout the day! But the "quests" are just too stupidly impossible to keep my attention. I'm just sayin'...

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Cruel, sadistic and anti-gamer! This last special event (I think honoring Mothers' Day) was virtually impossible to finish. While most objects were findable within a few instances of looking in the picture, there were some items which took waaaaaaay too many---more than 10. There was one which I think took more than 15 but I was too frustrated to keep track. It felt like 100 times! I only kept going to see if the item would ever actually appear. And of course it was the last item so l had already invested a lot in completing this. To add insult to injury, the objects needed to combine the collections were hard to get, and the amounts needed increased a lot over the course of the event. Frustratingly, I did not have enough to combine the last 5 items. A gamer works hard enough to get whatever is needed to look in a picture, and then find the items. The requirements to combine items into a collection should not be so punitive. My suggestion is to make combination elements common for all collections, and make only a small amount necessary. I have shared my enjoyment of this game with friends and family in the past, but no longer. It is just too frustrating now, and I want to discourage others from feeling so stressed over what should be, and could have been, fun. Soon my impulse to rage-quit will overcome my addiction and I will be free of this game. In the meantime, heed my warning and do not get sucked in to this sadistic travesty of recreation.

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I started playing this game over a year ago. In that time, the game has gone downhill with each new update. It used to be easier to gain rewards after each completed picture; now I can have multiple items active to increase my chances of finding rewards and still get nothing. And playing one room ~10 times in order to find enough of a special item just to be able to play another room once, in hopes of finding a reward that is needed to continue a quest, when the chances of finding such are going down with each update...well, that becomes an interminable grind, not an enjoyable pastime. Add in the fact that the last three rooms added have the unpleasant feature of having multiple versions of each object, and the game becomes an exercise in clicking randomly. “Find this dog that is shaped nothing like the silhouette displayed, and also looks different from the dog shown the last time you played this room.” No thank you. The graphics are still lovely, studying settings is still immersive; if you download it, my advice is, ignore the quests and “storyline” completely, and just enjoy searching for stuff. Since the game is obviously intended to be a money sink, I won’t be buying anything more from the developers.