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Dark Parables: Queen of Sands – A Mystery Hidden Object Game – Entertainment Game Review
Dark Parables: Queen of Sands – A Mystery Hidden Object Game is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Adventure game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 2nd September 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 374+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dark Parables: Queen of Sands – A Mystery Hidden Object Game Stand Out
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A strange purple mist has appeared in the provincial city of Montafleur, turning dreams into nightmares and terrorizing the innocent townsfolk. You and your keen detective skills have been called in to stop the evil Queen of Sands and her beastly companions. Can you bring harmony back to this once peaceful land of fables, or will this fairy tale not have a happily ever after?
• AID THE RED RIDING HOOD SISTERS IN THEIR HUNT FOR JUSTICE
Who is behind the ferocious beast lurking at the outskirts of town? Does this have anything to do with the secret nature of the town’s world-famous perfumes?
• TRAVEL THE LAVISH FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE
Take in the sights and sounds and track your enemies through lush hidden object scenes.
• CAN YOU COLLECT ALL OF THE DARK PARABLES?
Unlock other bizarre stories through extraordinary puzzles and fabulous mini-games.
• EXPLORE THE PARABLE OF THE SEVEN RAVENS IN THE BONUS CHAPTER
Challenge yourself to a tale of fantasy and enjoy additional Collector’s Edition exclusives including collectible items & special achievements!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dark Parables: Queen of Sands – A Mystery Hidden Object Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd September 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Dark Parables: Queen of Sands – A Mystery Hidden Object 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:
Love the graphics, and the difficulty level. Fun and challenging.
We purchased this game back in January 2021.
We loved this game. The F.R.O.G.s were very interesting and had us on our toes trying to find all the pieces. The controls were flawless, the scenery, 2nd to none. Well worth the money. Cudos BF.
The puzzles were new feeling and the game was longer than their games usually are. We personally dont care about the HOPs as much as everyone else seems to. We do like the ones that you use the objects better, but its still a worthwhile game imo…especially being on sale right now.
We have been a true fan of Dark Parables games from high school to adulthood. The very first game we have played was Snow White and the White Witch (Please bring that game back to iPad!). The Dark Parables series all go almost the same way, with little differences in between, like the Little Mermaid one. However, the storyline is catchy and the game is fairly long for the game itself. We are an easy person when it comes to ratings unless it comes to horrible games (which we have encountered some before). We have read some reviews from other games of how people would come back to the game about 2 to 3 times before writing a review. This is our 3rd time playing Queen of Sands, so we thought to give a review. Im giving it a 5 star (we are somewhat biased since we love the games so much) because of the length of the game itself, the storyline, and as well as the mini-games in between the hidden object portion. Recommend.
We enjoyed this game. It has beautiful graphics, and puzzles that were engaging, but not too difficult. Well done.
This is a fun game with lots of puzzles and it is. Clear on where to travel next..and it has a clever storyline. The graphics are very bright lots of color.
We like the payables series. The puzzles unique. The stories intriguing.
We have a stressful job. This game takes us to a whole other world. We recommend this game to everyone.
Id play any game by this group.
Love all the Dark Parable games. They are. Fun and. Challenging.
Very pleased with this games graphics, quality and scenery. We really enjoyed it.
Long game, lots of puzzles that require thought. Great graphics, loved Eric as a lion, great face. More than Worth the 2.99 we spent.
Love this game played it multiple times…Big Fish cant seem to come up with new games for quite some time now, whats up BF.
We rarely write reviews, but this was one of our favorite games. We loved the mini games, which deviated from the typical object finding. We now look forward to the next in the series.
It was actually fun game we wish it had about this to it too but was excellent one of the best games Ive played yet.
Whats not to like? Spectacular graphics, creative puzzles, likeable characters, interesting challenges, decent storyline, and plenty long. Since when can we not play a game in one night, lol! We really enjoyed it. There could have been a bit more creativity in the type of HO games, rather than always finding random components of your desired article in an unrelated picture, but really the items always turned out so beautiful it does not take a star off for us. We truly recommend this one.
We love the entire Dark Parables for the very reason others have complained. We like to find parts to put together larger items. We have them all.
Great graphics and story. Puzzles are not to hard nor too easy.
Not too hard. Easy navigate scenes.
We found the game a lot of fun and the graphics exquisite.
This game has an awesome story line, graphics, and play ability.
Pleasingly long. Good value for the money. The HO sequences are very nice, and a little different, The puzzles are a bit too complex for us, but maybe for you? The story is completely superfluous and unnecessary. Overall, we recommend this to all adventure/HO players.
Hops are FROGs (fragmented objects) in this game, just fair warning. This doesnt bother us, but it might some. We like the ornate and colorful items you receive from them. Lovely graphics. Lots of puzzles, yay! They range from easy to medium, and are uniquely designed. The storyline is good. We do wish the Parables you collect would actually cohere to the gameplay, but we dont think Ive played a Dark Parables yet that actually did that. So, the stories told in the Parables, while similar to the game, are not exactly the same. It was weird to have the red riding hood sisters appear but not be more involved. The game was long. The bonus game is good. You collect fleur de lys in each scene, 39 in all. Parables are morphing objects that you find randomly throughout the game. If you want them all, we suggest you refer to the strategy guide. All in all, a delightful, entertaining game.
This game, so far, makes no sense to us. Ive only played a small part of it. How are you suppose to collect Parables? Well, let us get back to it and see if it makes sense later on in the game.
Pretty good but a lot of emblems to figure out. Prefer more hidden object screens. Like having the two items a like and using one object to find another on the hidden object scenes. Overall worth the entertainment.
We dont like fragmented object games. We like good old hidden objects. So this game didnt satisfy us. We gave it 3 stars because the graphics were okay (just okay, not great) and it was a lengthy game. The story was kind of stupid and juvenile.
It started out okay, but without using hints, you're lost. The mini games are strange–and the instructions are useless; thank God for the "Skip" option. How this game made it through any sort of quality check is beyond us.
Unfortunately we HATE find the pieces HO games like this. We find them very boring. We look for things that look out of place, and, poof, we found them all. We MUCH prefer a list of items to find. So, for us this is no sale. Too bad, too, because we're dying to play a good HO game.
Everything's the same! Great opening but downhill from there — just when it seemed like it would get better, well, it didn't. We're disappointed. This is supposed to be diverting, not tedious. Not even going to bother finishing. This is not worth the price.
As others have said, u are running around trying to find pieces that fit into other pieces, we also prefer true HO CHALLANGES. Also feels like we have played this one before. A problem we have noticed recently is games are marked as "NEW" when they are NOT. Rather deceiving to put the date as a few days ago and version is 1.0.0 when u find out it's been updated.
This Is Very Short Game But This Need More.
We immediately deleted the game as soon as we found that we cannot customize our difficulty settings.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 1,138.23 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc
Last updated: 2nd September 2016 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc