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Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane HD – A Ghostly Hidden Object Game – Entertainment Game Review
Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane HD – A Ghostly Hidden Object Game is a Entertainment/Adventure/Puzzle game from BFG Entertainment Inc., first launched in 11th June 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 269+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane HD – A Ghostly Hidden Object Game Stand Out
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Guests keep disappearing from Abraham Shadowy’s gimmicky haunted hotel. Is there someone pulling the strings or are these ghosts actually real?
• A GHOSTLY ATTRACTION TURNS SINISTER
Abraham Shadow bought an abandoned hotel with plans to turn it into a haunted attraction. But when his guests start actually disappearing, people begin to gossip.
• JOIN YOUR DETECTIVE FRIEND JAMES ON A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
You and your partner James are called in to investigate this strange case, but so far the only thing paranormal is the owner’s odd behavior!
• DISCOVER THE HAUNTED HOTEL’S SECRETS
It’s dark in there, so watch your step! Examine eerie hotel rooms to find clues and useful hidden objects on your investigation about the guests’ disappearances. Use your detective instincts to solve challenging mini-games and puzzles!
• HELP ANABEL FIND PEACE IN THE BONUS GAME
Find all 12 hidden ancient Egyptian canopic jars and earn achievements along the way! Enjoy new locations and challenges in the bonus chapter, plus behold a collection of beautiful wallpapers and concept art!
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Player Feedback
As a newer release, Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane HD – A Ghostly Hidden Object Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th June 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
In this update:
• Fixes to ensure your game loads properly and won't load to a black screen
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Download & Availability
Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane HD – A Ghostly Hidden Object Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is one of the most fantastic games we ever played! The story was great and the game seemed tailored to our gameplay. We just loved it.
Do not know how we missed this one,but,glad we found it now. A few different puzzles and good storyline.
Puzzles are sometimes quite easy but others really challenging.
Excellent graphics. We have not encountered any bugs. The final boss fight is different and fun. Map feature is very nice. Hard to scroll the inventory without hitting the hint button by accident though.
We love these type of games. We love the story line, it plays well. You can teleport from place to place, which is nice.
We enjoyed the game & it was easy to get in and out with the hint button. One of the few games that do not make you start the game over if you go into the strategy game help.
We enjoyed this game alot. Puzzles were nice and varied. We had a problem with the volume tho- if we clicked on an advertised game banner that took us to Big Fish- upon returning to the game, the sound would not work. Would have to re-boot our IPAD to get sound again. Also disliked hint bar location. Hit it at least a dozen times while trying to get to inventory. Would def like to play the sequel tho.
This is a nice game all the way around for us, thoroughly enjoying it so far. Also no which have been an issues with some of the games. Technical issues have come up.
Very enjoyable. Not too easy, not too hard. Look forward to the sequel. Thanks BF.
Please make another one like it.
We like the story. Not enough hidden object scenes. The more we play-the more we like it!more hop scenes,that are great.
We really enjoyed the game and the graphics. 2 thumbs up a snap and a twist.
Just the right amount of HOS, puzzles & plot. Challenging but not to the point of frustration. We've played it 3 times already and notice new things each time.
By far one of the better endings that we've seen from Big Fish games. Others leave you wondering what happened at the end or are anti climactic. But we liked that this game was more interactive at the end.
This is not our final review. Blueflier, it occurred to us that we haven't heard from Snooper in a while either! Snooper, we just want to make sure you are doing OK! Blueflier, hope you are doing well too! The Dream Team needs to stick together. How do you think that unlocking issue was solved? We will get back to you after checking out this game. Anyway we played and we thought this was a good game, just not worthy of 5 stars. The graphics were very good, the cut-scenes were exciting, and they gave you a journal, a task button and a non-spoiler hint system. The storyline was a bit dull. The HO scenes were all the same; word lists only. After playing games with a lot of varied HOS, that was a bit boring. The puzzles were easy. The only collectibles were the canopic jars, which at least gave you a chance to learn some ancient history. Note to Opinion: Seriously? If you wanted direction for the puzzles, just tap the information button! Ridiculous! Another thing that we find annoying are reviewers who complain about going back and forth! Our team better not do that! Why do you think they gave you a teleport map? Inventory was labeled, but you had to use a lot of items over and over, so you had a very full inventory. Loading was not quite instantaneous, especially to open the map, but it wasn't interminable either. The game had a bonus adventure, but it wasn't overly long. At least this was not a glitchy game and there were thankfully no RATS! After playing games from Mad Head and EIPIX, this game really had nothing that special but it was a decent game. We need games that are more unusual and exciting! We send good wishes and to the Dream Team! Once again Snooper, we hope you are alright.
We enjoy this game. In addition to the casual, expert, etc., please offer a custom option. We loathe sparkles, but we hate waiting for hint to charge. Thanks.
We loved the game, but we feel that there should be a 0 second wait for puzzles and skips. Some of us pay for the full game. It is our opinion that hints and skips should have a No Wait option in the customize difficulty setting as a courtesy. We did, however, much enjoy the game. Keep up the good work.
This game has a few glitches with tapping. In some instances it took us about a dozen taps before the item was "chosen." It was so bad that we thought we must be wrong, so we used the "hint." Surprise! We wasn't wrong, the item just wouldn't acknowledge the tap. We found the VERY annoying. Some items were named incorrectly, like a bicycle for a tricycle. Other than those glitches, it's a good game with nice graphics and a teleporting map. We're glad we bought this one.
The game was overall pretty good. The graphics in the HOS were crisp and colorful, we enjoyed the storyline, the mini puzzles were challenging but doable and it was a decent addition to a great series. Now for the issues…there was way too much back and forth needed. It was literally like take one item from a room, go use it in another room then immediately you have to go back to that same room for another item and then go back to the room you just left and so on and so forth! The hint button was in a terrible location and we hit it accidentally a few times blowing our "no hint" achievement. Then there's the achievement room where the achievements are only labeled/listed when you haven't achieved them yet. Once you have achieved something it no longer says what the achievement was which is pretty frustrating especially at the end when you want to see all of the things you were able to accomplish. And our last 2 issues…the main game and bonus chapter both seemed on the short side and there was only 12 extra items to search for throughout the game and no morphing items, both features that have become "must haves" for us.
Great way to relax at the end of the day.
First of all, the hint button stopped working mid-game, but we can live with that. But an item, tongs, simply disappeared from our inventory so we could not proceed in the game. Very disappointed. ** Whoops, our mistake. There were two pairs of tongs so nothing disappeared from our inventory. We reset the game and the hint button is working. We like the game but we agree that the huge inventory was cumbersome.
As other reviewers have noted – this is a short game. We loved the intriguing beginning – and had high hopes for this game. Quickly though the problems to solve became the same old sharpen this, unscrew that. Mini-games we're easy – two or three were different from the usual which was nice. Most of the action flowed well and made sense. We were a little peeved when we tried to unscrew a grate with a coin and that didn't work. We HAD to find the screwdriver. All in all – an average game.
One of the better games! Storyline was engaging.
It's ok. Too much inventory at one time. It becomes cumbersome. But, we enjoyed it although the guide wasn't that helpful with the collectibles. Some of the games were a bit tedious.
Was good, played many of these HO games , it's was smooth.
Love this series please keep up the good work.
There was nothing horribly wrong with this game, but nothing new or interesting about it either. Premise is an ancient Egyptian stealing souls in an old hotel. Seen it? Graphics were beautiful, and some games were unique, but HOS were just lists with the occasional combining or moving to get an object. There is a good teleporting hint button and a map, and collectibles. Biggest problem was the plethora of tasks, locks, and inventory objects. At one point we counted 16 items in our inventory. It was just too much-got to the point where we just hinted our way through to the end. Didn't care anymore and couldn't remember what went where. Didn't crash on us, though. The last task to eliminate the bad Egyptian didn't work at all. Either bad directions or no response.
Only thing that kept this from a 5 star was it was too fast to the end. Can't wait for next one to get here.
We had a love/hate response to this game..it took us a while in the beginning to get the flow of the game..then,it really got awesome!!! The only reason we didn't give it five star was at the end of the game..it kept cutting out. Very interesting and difficult mini puzzles as well as great HOP..long game and well worth the money.
Enjoyed the challenge of this game. Disappointed that it ended way too soon. Also we felt it was a bit pricey.
In our humble opinion, there was too much jumping back and forth and most of the time has to teleport. We needed to rely on hint too much and we dont like that.
Game is interesting. In the hidden object section, some of the items are difficult to move. You have to tap the a half dozen times before the items would connect. Other than that, Im enjoying the game.
We liked the game, but after about an hour of playing time it took us back to the beginning. Very frustrating.
Good little game, but need the hints to keep from getting hopelessly stuck.
The puzzles and stuff don't make intuitive sense therefore are too difficult to solve without using tons of hints etc. And we're doing it on easiest mode. We dont enjoy games where we have trouble solving most of the puzzles and clues ourselves. It's just not as much fun.
Very good graphics, nice sound effects and music. Hard to control volume of voices. People dialogs were controlled by the voice volume, but voices reading notes were loud? The inventory items build up, so when scrolling to the right, we kept hitting the hint button which is way too close to the scroll button. It's hard to get the no-hint achievement that way. Suggestion to Big Fish for all future game development: Provide an option to confirm when hitting hint and skip buttons. They are too easy to hit accidentally.
Like the game, have had to reload a couple of times due to errors. Currently wants us to purchase for a second time. Notgood.
We were really enjoying this game, until it kept freezing and closing out. Wish we could get a refund!! So disappointed.
Game is glitchy and froze. We were unable to move past it and had to delete game. VERY disappointed.
We tried 3 times to place the glass pieces, and each time the game froze. It's fairly early in the game, too, and we already paid for it. Sigh.
Played a long time twice and game keeps starting over. Disappointing.
Elephant Games are always our favorite, and they very rarely, if ever, have glitches or issues with freezing; unfortunately, we can't say that about this game. When we try to place the glass shards on the steps the game freezes and won't let us continue. We were enjoying it up to that point, but this issue makes it impossible to continue game play. We are going to try deleting & reinstalling in the hope that it will fix this glitch and allow us to play through. If it works we will update our review, until then it is a one star game.
Tanginanyo mandaraya kyo !!! U'll never gonna finished this game, after u found the guy it will stop and start all over again… Dont buy this game or any elephant games.
Great puzzles, challenging hidden objects and easy transport make this one of our favorites.
Lots of puzzles, lots of challenges. Some puzzles were easy but some were very challenging figuring out sequences. The game was pretty long so you get your money's worth and of course there is the bonus game as well. Great graphics. Elephant games have become our favorite.
Excellent, you have to think on it.
Really liked this game. Great graphics and spooky story line. Clever hidden object games mix well with the plot.
Great game. Not too many hidden object puzzles and some very good head scratchers. Good development. Sometimes though, there was quite a delay on picking objects up or opening puzzles. All in all, a great game. Can't wait for the sequel.
Any game from Elephant Games are always fantastic.
Not far into game,but a very good one to download.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 1,104.42 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: BFG Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 18th June 2015 | Genre: Entertainment, Adventure | Developer: BFG Entertainment Inc.