1912: Titanic Mystery

Affair Bureau

Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet

*Hotel Transylvania Dash is only available for iPhone, with no PC version being offered. I would have purchased the game otherwise. PlayFirst is obviously more interested in making money than satisfying their longtime customers, so it's doubtful I'll ever buy another game from them again - even those for PCs.

*Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor is the worst of the lot so far. It is slow and boring with no "escape" when Nancy "talks" and an endless selection of corridors that appear to have no purpose. It's a large file game so you can't download the trial version but have to buy it outright. I made my displeasure known to Big Fish Games and they kindly issued me a free credit for another game of my choosing. Very classy of them!

*Redrum sounds good, but once in play it's almost impossible to exit when you're ready and therefore a frustrating waste of time in my opinion.

*Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Persian Carpet has God-awful "stick-people" graphics. It's no fun at all. I always look at the screenshot previews nowadays.

A Note About Collectors Editions:

I've become a tad annoyed with Big Fish Games. A member of their "club" for more than four years, I've always received games at the member price of $6.99. However, over the last few years Big Fish has been offering "collectors editions" priced at $19.99. These "offerings" now come several times a week. I'm not interested in paying nearly $20 for a computer game, no matter how entertaining. I don't even consider purchasing "collector" editions, preferring to wait until the standard version of a game is released a few months later.