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Spirit of the Ancient Forest – Family Game Review
Spirit of the Ancient Forest is a Family/Adventure/Entertainment game from Absolutist Ltd, first launched in 7th December 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 109+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spirit of the Ancient Forest Stand Out
In the world, where magic oppose technology, nature forces yield to machinery. In this fantasy adventure, make you way through clutter hidden object scenes and solve engaging sliding puzzles to protect the magic forest from the evil Dark Lord.
- 90+ game levels
- 10 hidden object modes and puzzle mechanics
- Exciting and colorful fictional world
- Beautiful slider and jigsaw puzzles
- 3 difficulty modes to meet your preferred level of challenge
- Amiable animal characters
In this colorful hidden object puzzle game it’s up to you to thwart the Dark Lord as he attempts to eliminate magic. Follow Sarah, through fantasy woodlands and steampunk city to the Dark Lord’s Citadel. His minions will be interfering with your attempts to save the dying Great Tree, growing in the heart of the ancient forest.
This family game takes advantage of the pure hidden object gameplay and variety of puzzle mini-games. Prove your finding skills as you match identical items on a clutter-style hidden object locations. Rush against the clock to meet the level objective and collect crystals to earn hints. Extra hint is credited for every 10 crystals found. And the challenge differs on each level. For instance find matching pairs of items hidden among dozens of little things. Or find hidden items, one of which is colorful, and the other is grey. So, master your searching skills as you progress and enjoy the story which unfolds.
As for bonus mini-games, these are variously shaped jigsaw puzzles and sliders. Whimsical artwork and a cast of remarkable characters complements the finding objects gameplay. It makes this HOG an enthralling game for kids. Moreover, this free hidden object game comes in full version, so you can complete the adventure without any purchases.
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spirit of the Ancient Forest is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th January 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Dear friends, thank you so much for your great feedback!
In this update we have fixed several bugs and improved game performance.
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Please review this update – it’s really important to us. Thank you!
Download & Availability
Spirit of the Ancient Forest is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Spirit of the Ancient Forest on App Store
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:
Developers, we're very grateful to you, youve made such pretty little animals.
We really enjoy this game. We like that it is colorful and the objects are sharp.
Yes, it's like Clutter but we like it more. It is simple enough to just chill out and find things. It also has some nice puzzles. Its a keeper for us.
Love this game. Some levels took us days to complete. Id love to see more levels added.
The puzzles are hard but you can repeat them as many times as you want without having to pay money.
Dont like the timer. Happy they have a very casual mode. We like to play at leisure. Great way to pass some time.
The hidden object scenes are challenging without being too difficult.
Great way to wind down, relax, no pressure, play a few minutes at a time or as long as you want. Some games are really story, character, time and figure it out driven. This is for relaxing. Great colors, super cute things, really pretty pictures that will make you smile. We love them!! Its not your typical HO game and thats what makes it great! It isnt meant to be. Easy to know what to do, with plenty of variety to keep things interesting.
Like the title says this game is beautiful and challenging at the same time. We will be purchasing this game.
Update: we are updating our previous review, we are rating this as 5 stars as we enjoy playing this in just casual only, since we are too old to bit the timer. Thank you This game is great for eye catching how quick you will find the objects and match them up, when you are senior citizen it's so hard to do casual game as the time is so fast. It's frustrating for us as we played repeatedly to test how will we can beat the timer. Therefore, 3 stars only for now until they adjust the lights or background of the color so you our wife can enjoy alittle bit, then, we will update our review. Thanks.
Fun game. A bit glitchy but worth it.
This game quit working on the third third time we tried to play it.
*UPDATE: ADS NOW????? Wtf???? Lowering rating Didnt know you had another one these clutter-type games, this is so much fun! Its a nice break to play in between the story-derived hoag Please Please Please make more.
We liked it very much! Cool story, and different game modes.
Such a disappointment. We're torn because their last HOG was a great game. This isn't like any of their other games.(Dreamscape, witches prank, contract with the devil) This to us isn't a hidden object game at all, but a find the match and then you read a little about the story. After you find the match again in the next "round" you read a little more about the story. It's not a story driven hidden object game like we're accustomed too. We are a huge fan of the HOG, have thousands of games throughout the years and Big Dish, G5, Five BN, Artifex Mundi, etc, those are the story driven HOGs. This isn't. If you like the type of game that doesn't have a real story, doesn't have actors, voice overs etc, then this is your game. We couldn't take but 10 minutes of find the match. We were done after that. Highly disappointed because it's been forever sense this developer came out with a new game, and their last one was a huge hit to us. We wish they would go back to the story type HOGs. Sorry but we can't give more stars for this. Our rating is a 2! Happy New Year to all the wonderful HOG players/reviewers out there.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.13
- Size: 369.70 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, RU
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Absolutist Ltd
Last updated: 11th January 2018 | Genre: Family, Adventure | Developer: Absolutist Ltd