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Awakening: The Golden Age – A Magical Hidden Objects Game – Puzzle Game Review
Awakening: The Golden Age – A Magical Hidden Objects Game is a Puzzle/Adventure/Entertainment game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 19th August 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 91+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Awakening: The Golden Age – A Magical Hidden Objects Game Stand Out
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Not all is as it appears in the magical world of Awakening, where each human has their own unique ability, including you. Uncover the secrets behind the war, or the kingdom of your birth will be destroyed!
• WHEN MINOTAURS ATTACK, ONLY YOU CAN SAVE THE DAY
The Human Kingdom has been living in peace… until now. With your village razed by minotaurs, you must escape with the help of a mysterious Ranger and find out the truth behind the attack.
• A DARK, NEW STORY SET IN THE AWAKENING WORLD
Before Queen Sophia was born, the Human Kingdom lived in an age of glory: the golden age. However, this age too had its dark times. Beneath a veneer of peace, war has come with minotaurs invading human villages.
• CAN YOU STOP THE WAR?
Meet characters that explore lushly detailed and unique landscapes with you, helping you with their unique abilities! Solve hidden object scenes, and use your magical ability to solve puzzles and uncover clues!
• DISCOVER THE SECRETS THAT LIE IN THE HUMAN KINGDOM
Enjoy exclusive extras such as wallpapers, replayable mini-games, cutscenes, concept art, and more!
This game is best experienced on iPhone 4s/iPod Touch 5th gen and up.
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This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Awakening: The Golden Age – A Magical Hidden Objects Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th August 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Awakening: The Golden Age – A Magical Hidden Objects Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We miss awakening moon fell wood it was actually our very favorite big fish game of all time are used to play years ago we still remember how magical it felt we have no idea why such a game wouldnt be in the App Store anymore.
Im a huge fan of this series on because when we mean huge we mean huge like Ive been playing awakening since we were about eight or nine but RED LEAF Forest AND golden age are nothing compared too the originals very very favorite awakening games are gone and just nowhere to be found theres a mystical and magical and even have a little fairy as a hinting guide you get to be a princess and meet trolls and fairies and goblins and its just so amazing it really put you in a nostalgic type state but the games are just gone we wish theyd come back id pay for it SERIOUSLY.
We love it so far! Ive played some Awakenings games years ago and miss them. This one is living up to our expectations! Fun.
LOVE THIS GAME AMAZING GRAPHICS GAMES ARE AWESOME.
This game still plays well (2017). We like the story, and there are many fun games and HOPs. Very mellow game, no horror. Recommended.
Both our daughter & we have LOVED playing the entire Awakening series. Thanks again Boom Zap for another great addition to this series. Excited to see what part 8 has in store.
Love all the awakening games and they keep getting better! Please make more.
Intriguing storyline, awesome characters, graphics, although fiction, leaves you with a good feeling. Odd that the story would continue even when Sophia had restored her parents to their glory days. Overall we would buy again. A nice ending to a good series.
So we loved it a lot actually and we would love a sequel and for the awakening series to continue because it is that amazing.
This game series never fails to amaze us.
Heather Love this game wish we were free though.
Awakening Series our fave now,.
First one we've played, so far so good.
Loved this game! Wish it had a bonus game at the end, though.
Too easy. The mini puzzles are too straightforward and quite unchallenging.
It's ok not to bad. We liked everything but we could not find all the fairies.
Not sure why this has some bad reviews… Gorgeous graphics of magical worlds that make you just want to jump into the screen, good voice-overs, especially in the bonus section with some great comedic character voice-over talent–finally a game that uses real actors! Although, if we remember correctly, the lead actress was NOT very good, but some of the character actors playing the sprites in the bonus game were spot on satirically funny! And there IS a bonus game, you just hit play again after the main story. We like that you find out that the bad guys aren't really bad, there is just a misunderstanding and you work together with them, a strong political and philosophical statement… Good transporting map, nice cut scenes, story, dialog…. Cons are that some of the instructions on the mini games were not explained well, sometimes the screen was not responsive enough to touch, no diary or back button, we were constantly being sent to another screen if we clicked slightly to the side of center. You collect fairies, but not sure why, no reward, besides an "achievement." This is a great game before sleep, beautiful relaxing music, easy, non-frustrating puzzles (once you figure out the instructions, if you can), but mostly just a beautiful vacation into a magical world.
Difficult at times but plenty of hints. Would like more hidden object puzzles in game.
Game is worth keeping and stored in our library to played again and again.
It was a great game but we've run into issues Twice.
Like other reviewers we found the game just ok. Developers why can you not tell us what the objects are before putting them in inventory?? We know we can touch on them and a little box will pop up and tell us but sometimes you can't read it and the box comes and goes so quickly that sometimes we have to press on it several times in order to see what it is. It's just that kind of little stuff that is annoying. This game was too short, the story was boring and puzzles were way too easy. At #7 the puzzles should be much harder not beginner.
Would haven given it 5 stars if it had a bonus chapter and was longer. We finished it in 3 1/2 hrs.
Great game . Challenging but has hints when stuck . Though we dont use them much. We like not being rushed in games. And currently using iOS 14.4 we amd stuck 7/8 of way through. Cant get past the kid in celler … Keeps looping the 2/2 scenes. And doesnt add to inventory. Added 3/1/2021. Doug qa engineer / tester / enhancement suggester / helper Remember: if it's not broken, don't fix it, enhance it = continuing improvement.
We get to a point where we can not go any further no matter what we try. We have tried 4 different names and still no luck. Other than that we like the game.
Great game. Enjoyed playing this one.
The puzzles aren't as interesting anymore. This used to be our favorite games developed by Boomzap. Now it's going nowhere. Pls. Change back to its old charm.
Still an ok addition to the series but issues with objects hanging up and not being able to access the strategy guide from game – Just goes to a blank screen. Accessed it through the app but collectibles not shown.
Our expectations were fairly high after playing, & loving, the rest of the series. We purchased this one immediately for $1.99 & we're glad we didn't pay full price. It is VERY short (we finished in just over two hours). The graphics, storyline, & characters are all fine, but not overly impressive. The mini games were either too easy or poorly explained, & there is no bonus chapter, causing the game to be even shorter. It seems like they rushed to put this one together & didn't invest a lot of time or effort into it, unlike with the rest of the series.
After The Redleaf Forest we expected better. It ended abruptly and was too short. Many minigames were explained poorly and designed badly and others were too easy. Objects hung in the air or disappeared (screwdriver) instead of reverting to inventory. We liked that scenes other than HOGs sometimes zoomed. Worth the $1.99 we paid but we're glad we didn't pay $2.99. Even if we had not played the last game in the series which was extraordinary we would have known this was a lazy rush job. Why was the Hoopoe just a hint button and not a helper? Why would you give a name to a hint button.
We love all of the other games and Im pretty sure we would love this game too but it keeps crashing and we cant play the game at all.
This series used to be great! This one had too much story getting in the way, was very linear, and only a few things to do at each location. The more open world style was much more fun & interesting.
We bought and played because because we've really enjoyed past installments in this series but so much of this game felt tedious. The puzzles are weak. You're followed the whole game by two useless characters that constantly plead for your help. There's so little to investigate in each environment the game suffers and goes by a blink. Every few scenes you enter a new area and are locked out of the last so there's no long-standing puzzles to solve. They named the "surprise traitor" character Claudius for pete's sake! Strangely, the bonus chapter was better with more of the charm and characters we associate with the series. Gave it a low score because we really expect much better from what is a Big Fish flagship series.
This is the worst Big Fish hidden game Ive ever played! THE WORST! We even paid full price for continuing the game series. Utter disappointment! Took us 1hr and 13 min to play. No bonus game to finish the story.
On our iPhone 6s, the game quits in the early stages of opening. Unplayable.
The game isn't starting. It crashes as soon as we try to start it.
Every time we open, it crashes and closes the app :( we paid for it too.
The app will not open to play it. We bought the app and went to play it over again and now cant get it to open. Please send an update to fix it. We reinstalled the app and nothing.
We have the newest iPhone, its all updated. The app blinks on, then blacks out at the Big Fish logo screen, then the app closes & our wallpaper is zoomed in. The series of games is great!! But now the first 2 or 3 are not updated enough for us to play all 7 in a row. Please make these updates, we really enjoy your games.
Paid to unlock, only got about an hour more of gameplay. Then the bonus chapter was screwed up and sent us back to the end of the main game, but without the stuff we had already used to beat it. We feel ripped off, don't think we'll be paying for anymore big fish crap.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 1,117.27 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc
Last updated: 19th August 2015 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc