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Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel – A Hidden Objects Romance Mystery – Entertainment Game Review
Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel – A Hidden Objects Romance Mystery is a Entertainment/Adventure/Puzzle game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 1st April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 146+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel – A Hidden Objects Romance Mystery Stand Out
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Tragedy strikes Dana Knightstone, the best-selling novelist with a gift for clairvoyance. Step into Dana’s shoes as she travels to a book signing event in Romania. An avalanche traps her in the cold mountain Alps where she gets stranded in an old castle!
• ESCAPE THE GRASP OF A LOVESTRUCK SPIRIT
You’ve been captured by the ghost of Count Lucien who has mistaken you for his lost love Alexandra!
• REUNITE A PAIR OF GHOSTLY LOVERS
Solve the mystery of a tragic love story and find out who killed Alexandria.
• EXPLORE A HAUNTED ROMANIAN CASTLE
Navigate through the empty castle and beautiful landscapes using an interactive map and search for clues and hidden objects. Rely on your instincts to solve formidable mini games and puzzles!
• UNRAVEL A BRAND NEW GHOST STORY IN THE BONUS CHAPTER!
Collect challenging achievements along the way and enjoy replayable cutscenes, wallpapers, and concept art!
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Player Feedback
As a newer release, Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel – A Hidden Objects Romance Mystery is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st April 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel – A Hidden Objects Romance Mystery is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Years ago we downloaded and paid for all the Dana Knightstone games. Our phone was running out of space so we deleted them. Ive searched on the App Store for them again and cant find the apps!!!! Where can we find the apps for our IPHONE to download again!!!! LOVE these games.
Ive played so many of these games multiple times but this one is our personal favorite. Its challenging and we love a good challenging game. We are so happy that we found this.
Would love to be able to play the older games in the series again :).
We bought the others with our own money death at fairing point and the cape puerto we see only one?! Can someone please tell us what happened? And understand please!!! Dont listen to the people who put useless stars!!! We played with all of them You people put them back on here this is the reason why we played these games our sister who passed away from stage 4 cancer and she liked those kinds of games And us? Well we will be happy to have them again Plus we dont see the rest of them on the computer.
Enjoyed it. Bring on the next Dana Knightstone.
We loved it. We love all the Dana Knightstone games that have been released. We would like to see some more and in response to another review, there is a bonus chapter if you just hit play after you complete the actual game.
After reading other reviews, we skipped this game for a long time. Finally downloaded and loved it! VERY long game play, gorgeous graphics. A little clunky on iphone. Very creative games, some almost too much so, because it wasn't always clear what was required. But if you are looking for a relaxing game with absolutely beautiful graphics, you'll enjoy this.
Storyline was flawless, the characters tragically heroic and medieval- and the deception and reveal were nicely done. Cute touch with the phantom pet, as well as the different, new puzzles. Still life graphics were perfect, however, motion graphics stalled a bit. We prefer a good plot and characters over digitalized sequences though; superb work.
Really like these mysteries and all the places to go. An interesting love story. Nice graphics.
This was a good and fun game. We can see how some people are confused as it took a some realizing of how this game worked. The mini game instructions are the "?" Just on the left corner of "skip". And for the bonus game (collectors edition) you have to press play in the main menu, just like you were starting over but the story continues. Graphics are good, mini games good, cute dog..all in all a good game.
This was a great game! It wasn't too short and was actually challenging at times. There were no glitches at all. There aren't any instructions for some puzzles because you are supposed to figure it out yourself. We will definitely be downloading another.
We saw some bad reviews but we don't get it. Someone said the game was short. This game is very long so we wonder if we all played the same game. We didn't run into any dead ends. Everything was where it was supposed to be. We didn't get stuck anywhere without enough trinkets to go past the walls. We loved this game. Totally up to the standard of big fish games. Great graphics the dog was a little weird but we guess it came in handy. Our only complaint would be sometimes you tap on things and it didn't respond. But otherwise it was a really good game.
Great story & characters with some unexpected twists. Not sure about the glitches others talked about, the game worked great for us (usually it's us that gets the glitches). There is a bonus chapter and it was a nice epilogue to the story. Mini games ranged between easy and difficult but the instructions were mostly clear (only one or two exceptions). Worth the money.
As always the knightstone games are wonderful. The puzzles were a little difficult to figure out what to do.
We have played every single Dana Knightstone game and love them all. Always worth the pay and def. Waiting for another novel. :).
We can't recall any glitches. Played iPhone version (cheaper) on iPad and still great graphics. Definitely worth buying.
We enjoyed this game very much! We love this series. You had to click on check mark for instructions to mini games. No glitches here just a great game.
Great graphics, and story line.
We love this series of mysteries! They just keep us occupied for hours.
We really like the Dana Knightstone series but we wish you would update the older ones so we can replay them.
Loved it! As always too short haha. Can't wait for the next Dana Knightstone.
Romania is another fun entry in the Dana Knightstone series. An intriguing plot, lush scenery, and puzzles galore. Much enjoyed.
Greatest game ever .we have played everyone but we are very sad to see it end .hopefully we will see one more Dana Knightstone series.
Enjoying free intro. Will purchase.
There are no directions for puzzles.
We love the dana knightston games but the older games need to be updated before we can download them to our newer device. If u update them so we can play them again Ill keep buying ur games.
We enjoyed the game but prefer the previous Dana Knightstone games. We always felt lost and not sure what to do. Some of the games didn't make sense and we'd end up skipping them. The story line was great, but it doesn't seem good enough to be in the Dana Knightstone series. We hope there is another game to the series and it'll be just like the previous ones.
Mundane and thrown-together. Story, graphics, animations and music all flat. Don't pay full freight on this one. Wait for a sale.
We've played all the Dana Knightstone series so far and have loved them, but this one seemed forced and gimmicky: -the ghost dog from the previous game in the series shows up to help, which just makes getting things too easy at times (we can't reach it, so just ask the dog to get it); -many of the mini-games didn't make sense to us at all, such as moving plates and goblets around to match colors, with no substantial way to know what the actual point was, the colors on plates and goblets didn't match, for ex., and in another mini-game, we are supposed to line up wood grains in shields, but they don't line up at all, leaving us to randomly move pieces around; -in several places, we have to find pieces of a shield or picture or goblet, but then we don't get the challenge of putting them into place, just find them all and they snap into place automatically and move on; -there wasn't a kind of diary where we could see what happened in previous scenes (or at least we didn't find it). And it was buggy, as some people have written. We know people work hard on these games, trying to keep them fresh and entertaining, but this entry in the Knightstone series just wasn't as fun for us as the others.
We have always loved these and have all of the ones in this series. Our only disappointment is that the game froze at the shields and we can't continue. Please fix soon :(.
Haven't gone very far. Somethings were frustrating. But if this is as far as free gets us, we're not hooked enough to pay for game.
HELP! We're stuck at an old house, have spent more than an hour looking for #6/6 broken sword pieces that we need to give to Constantin. We have carefully touched every part of every screen so many times, but that last piece isn't showing up. There's nowhere else to look, so we can't finish the game! Unlike other users, though, up to this point we have figured out how to move past various glitches, and we found instructions for the games in the blue arrow next to the dog. We're completely stumped here, guys.
Agree with a lot of what the other players mentioned. Glitchy, frustrating, and not up to par with series. Sadly to say we wouldn't buy this one unless they fixed all the glitches. Can't get pass the shields-says 5/5 but can only get 4/5. Have to keep tapping on an item before picking up. It doesn't matter if we play on iPad or iPhone, same problems. Please fix, would love to finish the game. Had to delete and still had all the same glitches and more.
Not having any directions for the mini games was annoying. We were just guessing and sometimes really cannot figure out what they wanted. The bonus story was weird, completely unrelated to the original story. It is not our favourite of the series.
The text & puzzles that don't zoom are too small for the iPhone. The instructions for the puzzles are poor – we had to skip about 1/3 of them because the "instructions" don't explain the point of the puzzle (and the point wasn't obvious). Telling how to play the puzzle isn't helpful without knowing the goal of the puzzle. Even using hints didn't help.
We love this series. Only problem was the mini games didn't have instructions so it left us confused to what to do so we skipped a lot of them.
This Game has been fun to play, but there is a big glitch. There are six trinkets to collect, but in the walkthrough the fourth trinket is counted twice (it's written right on their website, in plain day for all to see)! So there's really only five trinkets to collect, but you need six to pass the hall door. So you get perpetually stuck and cannot continue the game. Even the hint tells you to try and pass but it's impossible with only 5 of the 6 trinkets. Please fix ASAP so we may play up to the end of the game.
Fun until we can't collect the shield and can't move any further in the game. Can anyone help with this.
We can't grab the last shield piece.
We love all the knightstone series – but not this one. None, not one, puzzle had directions on how to play. We rarely skip puzzles and we ended up skipping 5-6 because we couldn't figure out the rules – a waste of money.
Left the game for a bit and when we returned we were at a point before the purchase screen, and despite having unlocked the full version earlier, we're stuck. :(.
We are stuck in the tower trying to collect the shields. We only have one left and have found all the pieces but it will not let us click and grab the shield itself. We have tried force closing and restarting nothing has worked please fix this or give us our money back.
We've enjoyed the other Dana Knightstone games, but this was pretty bad. Good first. Liked the story. Liked the map. Dog was cute. Bad now. AWFUL graphics. None of the games have instructions. We prefer to know what we're doing, rather than mess up just trying to figure out the point. Had to use the guide to try to figure some out. We HATE doing that. Ended up skipping because we couldn't figure it out & didn't want to use the guide. Game was glitchy. You would put the correct item in the correct spot & it wouldn't work. Then we'd come back after trying 12 other things and put it in the spot 5 times and it would finally work. Also, the game where you reconstruct an item is hugely glitchy. Every time there were one or two pieces we found and touched but they wouldn't move! Grrrr! Plus, NO BONUS CHAPTER! Waste of time. At least it was only $2.99. Still a waste of time.
Followers, Nice game, but not up to developer's usual standards. No major glitches experienced either on tablet or phone version, but the game itself was vey short in length, with less than exciting bonus game, and no "collectibles" of any kind being incorporated. Background scenery was quite vivid & colorful at times though, and some HO games were even fun to play, but in the end they were just not that challenging… Would not really waste our money on this one, because it is not up to developer's usual standards. ~Kamen Rider.
We've been trying to get past the maze scene for the past 1/2 hour. We keep getting bounced out of the past scene after the cut scene. It's a little frustrating. Up till that point it was pretty good. We second the reviewer who said instructions for the mini games would be welcome.
Some of the mini games were too difficult, game kept freezing on our iPad and we had to restart 4 times. Game story was hard to follow. Paid $2.00 for the game from an advertisement. Your website wanted $7.00.
Several things don't work: 1) cut scenes are blank. We can hear most of the dialogue but no visuals; 2) trying to put puzzle pieces together and the don't recognize it's correct spot; 3) Luciens story: won't let us grab last shield; 4) posted in website forum month ago and no views (not including our own), let alone helpful responses. We want our money back.
Terrible! Clues are vague. Highly disappointing for a Dana Knightson game. Will not buy the game.
Loved all the Dana Knightstone games but this one was a huge disappointment. Played about half of this game and then quit was not fun or entertaining like the others. No directions for puzzles/mini games. Did not like the dog that is used for help. Guidance option did not work and had no clue what to do for most of the game. So upset that they went and ruined the series.
We were enjoying this until it glitched out horribly and wouldn't allow us to progress. Even looked at the guide and we were doing everything right. NOT IMPRESSED.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 825.19 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc
Last updated: 1st April 2015 | Genre: Entertainment, Adventure | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc