About This Game A young family is invited to visit the newly opened museum in Egypt; while touring the museum they discover a long forgotten tomb of a cursed Pharaoh named Raned. After being separated you now have to play as each character. Help the family reunite, escape this long-lost Egyptian kingdom and discover the story behind the fascinating tomb and treasures that are buried within. 7aa9394dea Title: Escape The Lost Kingdom: The Forgotten PharaohGenre: AdventureDeveloper:Gogii GamesPublisher:Strategy FirstRelease Date: 6 Aug, 2010 Escape The Lost Kingdom: The Forgotten Pharaoh Addons escape the lost kingdom the forgotten pharaoh. escape the lost kingdom the forgotten pharaoh Good game but wouldn't pay more than \u00a31 for it.. This game.. i really like hidden object mystery games if i just want to relax and play something that is stil a bit interesting but not to challenging or complicated. but i cannot reccomend this one.+ voices are ok for this genre+artwork is ok+you can interact with many objects-the story is random, with an abrupt ending-really short-they don't need to be historically correct but they really seem to try to be as wrong as possible about egypt-random in game goggles (yea brother you should look through your glasses they are for finding sectret farao stuff) how? why? where did he get them and how do they know what its for? -translation errors-you cansupposedly do things with 3d glasses, but i didnt even liked to try this-way to easy. Well, this game isn't terrible. It is on the lower side of average overall. The puzzles and HO scenes are fairly decent, though easy, the voice acting isn't terrible and the extra elements of using magic items and tools is a nice touch.It's way too short however. Which might have been fine if the story was completed by the time the game was over, but no. It starts out with a cutscene showing an epic battle between two ancient pharaohs and speaks about how the murdered one waits in his tomb for the right people. The game itself is about a family of four who gets lost in the temple raised for this pharaoh and about how they escape. That's it. No continuation of the starting cutscene, only a 'Game Over' slide ("huh? really, did I just lose the game?") that feels like a 'To Be Continued' that just never continues. There is no sequel. You play a family who gets separated in an ancient temple and have to find a way to get back together and out of the temple. For some strange reason this game has scenes that can be used with redblue 3d glasses for 3d effect. I did not try this, and I really don't see the point.There is a lot of backtracking and iirc no map that you can use for teleporting. Be aware that quite a few of the puzzles in the video on steam is not in the game, but most probably in the collectors edition that has more playtime which is not available on steam. I also felt the game was sexist with giving the dad all the useful tools and the mum a book that's mostly useless and tells about stuff you've already done.. This is a recommendation only because there is no "meh" button.I enjoyed the puzzles and HO scenes very much. The music and voice acting was decent.However, there are two distinct strikes against this game. The first is that it is EXTREMELY short even by HO standards; I clocked in at barely above an hour. At the time of review, I have 1.4 hours on record and probably a full third of that time was actually me fighting with my display (note that if you have a 4k monitor, you may need to disable display scaling in order to have fullscreen cover the whole screen).The other issue is that the plot falls flat on its face, with an abrupt ending that leaves the game wide open for sequels that I don't believe ever were made. So essentially it was dissatisfying to finish and not feel like you're actually finished. That said, the plot was formulaic enough that you can essentially fill in the blanks in your head and call it good.So that said, it's barely squeaking by with a recommendation based solely on my enjoyment of the individual puzzles and not on the overall plot or playtime. It is NOT worth full price with the short length of the game (barely a third of the length of other standard HO games). But if you can get it on sale and don't mind a cliffhanger that will never be resolved, pick it up for a short, casual experience.. Another game I desperately wanted to like. It's enjoyable with plenty of voice acting that is good for the most part. The puzzles and hidden objects scenes aren't high res but are challenging and interesting. The game mechanics where each character has a job to do .... journal for Mom, tools for Dad, a magical item that sees the past for the daughter, and special googles that allow the son to see otherwise invisible interactive areas, make the game a little more unique for the genre. The story splits and has different chapters for each character as well, which makes it unusual.Now the bad.It's only about 90 minutes long. The introduction cut-scene that introduces the game, has almost nothing to do with it's content. The low res graphics, that are passable, made me think I was playing a game over 10 years old, but I was shocked to find out it was released in 2014. The version of the game on Steam is missing the entire final chapter, which explains why it feels unfinished. The ending is abrupt, with no pay-off ... it just fades to black with "game over" just as things were starting to get interesting!The game isn't expensive and it's not a bad game, but even cheap, I can't in good conscience recommend an unfinished product that is only just over an hour long (if you are experienced with the genre.). Short (around 2h), but very cute game and very enjoyable for people that are fans of both Egyptian culture and indie games. The graphics and the story are nice and the scenes have subtitled dialogues. The game has rather simple puzzles and the few hidden object scenes support 3D vision which adds a nice feature to it. I recommend this game for those that enjoy hidden object games and a feeling of Indiana Jones adventure.More reviews on the Lilly's Corner Curator page. pros+ good looking and colorful egyptian environments+ voice acting good+ three playable characters+ easy puzzles (if you don't want to challenge)+ cool egyptian background musics+ 3 D option for hidden object scenes+ hint system is very helpful+ cliche but ok story+ there is auto savecons- game could have been longer.- there are no steam achievements- game doesn't drop cards.- game sometimes gives error and shut down.. By far, the absolute worst hidden object game I've ever played. Grainy graphics, terrible voice acting, boring story, pointless puzzles, and medicore gameplay all contribute to making this game a true waste of time.. Okay so I used to play these sorts of games a lot since my mom was into them and I didn't have many other puzzle games, so I bought this one for a nostalgia kick...but this game.I started off annoyed with the little boy, frustrated at how godawful their version of history was, weirded out by the creepy art, and mostly bored with the puzzles.None of the seek and finds are very challenging, neither are any of the 'puzzles' and I was pretty much bored all the time but I was a bit curious about the plot with the daughter.So I get to the end, I get all the items and clear everything out, I get this item called the 'Staff of Time,' and I thought it was important, but I finished the final 'puzzle' and I got a limp cutscene and a black screen with 'Game Over' on it.I never used the staff, so I figured that hey, maybe I got an alternate ending. Since my safe starts me at the final cutscene I have to make a new file and play through all over again. Again, not HARD, but annoying. But I get to the end and go through all the rooms trying to find the thing to use the Staff of Time on, but I found nothing, so I decided to look up (I use guides sometimes, I don't feel ashamed about it) and I find this whole list of rooms that weren't on the in-game map. I try to get there in the game itself but I couldn't get in there. Also, there's no alternate ending, there's no closure to the whole plotline with the daughter, it just STOPS.I may have only spent a few dollars on this game but I feel ripped off. It's unimaginative, boring, annoying, it wasted my time and money, it sucks.Screw this game.
Escape The Lost Kingdom: The Forgotten Pharaoh Addons
Updated: Mar 24, 2020