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Phantasmat: The Dread of Oakville – A Mystery Hidden Object Game – Adventure Game Review
Phantasmat: The Dread of Oakville – A Mystery Hidden Object Game is a Adventure/Puzzle/Entertainment game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 8th July 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 229+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Phantasmat: The Dread of Oakville – A Mystery Hidden Object Game Stand Out
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When your car breaks downs on your way to a book signing, you suddenly find yourself trapped in the tiny town of Oakville. Spooky enough as it seems at first, it gets even scarier when you meet people that, according to the flyers posted around town, have all been declared missing. Can you find your way out before you become trapped here forever?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TOWNSFOLK?
Old Aunt Mae tried to warn everyone that a terrible storm was coming, but no one would listen. Does this have anything to do with an old sacred tree that was cut down to make room for the new town square?
• BEWARE OF THE EVIL MR. NIGHTINGALE!
Face your terrifying enemy through twisted hidden object scenes.
• USE YOUR TALISMAN TO KEEP YOU SAFE
Find the mysterious clues through haunted puzzles and spooky mini-games.
• DEFEAT THE DREAD OF OAKVILLE AGAIN IN THE BONUS GAME
Revisit this shocking tale and enjoy additional Collector’s Edition exclusives including collectibles, special achievements, and more!
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Phantasmat: The Dread of Oakville – A Mystery Hidden Object Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th July 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Phantasmat: The Dread of Oakville – 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:
Its fun game but can you please make more games of horror please and its a really fun game.
Wonderful game. Keep games like this coming PLEASE.
Enjoyed the main game, but in the bonus game once the ranger ghost appears and is selected, you cant exit the window or select items behind it. Cant go any further until that x button is fixed.
We love games that are full of atmosphere and this one fits the bill! Really fun cant wait til the sequel comes out.
It was ok. We didn't really get the storyline, the game was a little short, and it felt (for lack of a better word) perfunctory. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great.
Really enjoyed. Took a while to finish too. A couple minor glitches. You tap on an item/object and it doesn't react. Then you tap hint and it points to the object you were just trying to get! Ugh.
Im not that far into the yet, but so far, we like it. The graphics are good and theres morphings to collect. Ill have to see how it plays out before we give it a 5 star rating.
This game is a bit strange. It has a nice map with teleport, but one of the HO scenes didn't have a pinch screen. On that HO scene we couldn't find a bottle and needed the help button. We STILL didn't see it, but we clicked there and it worked. We also had some trouble placing an item. We tried, got a message it was wrong, then tried it again and it worked. We tried to go to areas to look around, but couldn't. Then found out we had to use an item in our inventory in the place we thought we needed to go to. The item was a net. The placement was in the water at the end of a path we couldn't go down. We GUESS it was tossed? Simply odd things like that showed up in the sample game. We didn't like that.
Game is great but when we want to reinstall it's said can't found purchases even we already pay for it.
Bizarre story; convoluted puzzles; one of the worst HOGs we've played.
Im very disappointed that we cant get past the ranger in the bonus game! No matter how many times we hit X frustrating and not what we expect from a $7 game. We will not be buying more until this is fixed.
In this version it says we didnt purchase. Went back to our receipts and we had one so went to the App Store loaded a different version and boom we already purchased. You should be ashamed of yourselves!! Big fish is a scam company!!!!! Horrible horrible !!! With everything going on right now and you are scamming people!!! BOYCOTT ALL GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING THIS HORRIBLE COMPANY DOWN! THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED! DECEPTIVE AND EVIL.
Will not pay $6.99 for the game.
How is it that ANY game made after 2015 lacks a custom difficulty option?!?! We immediately delete, and find one that does. It makes all the difference in the gaming experience. We're waiting for advancements there too, like the option to have various difficulty levels within a game, so you can chose super challenging HOPS and Mini Games. The Developers need to wake up and display some innovation! Whats taking so long?! We'd be embarrassed for our company and employees if we were you . ….uh, no.
Once again…BigFish releases an old game and presents it as new. This game was released 6 months ago. And the "already purchased" option returned the message that the purchase was not found. So we bought the game thinking it was a NEW release that we hadn't purchased. WRONG! Luckily, we were able to request a refund. But there have been a few games where we missed the time frame allowed and ended up losing money by purchasing a few games twice. This is a DECEPTIVE business practice. And we reported it to iTunes, we encourage anyone else who has had this happen to request their refund and report it as well. We used to buy almost every BF game. But now they've lost our trust and lost our business. Most of the BF games have gotten short, sloppy and boring anyway.
We closed out all programs running on our iPad, then we shut it off. After an hour (we got hungry), we turned on iPad, and still saw it "loading." So much for this game. This is the third BigFish game that this has happened with. Most of all of their hidden object games are awesome.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 974.88 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc
Last updated: 8th July 2016 | Genre: Adventure, Puzzle | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc