Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 11:25 pm
Hidden World – Adventure Game Review
Hidden World is a Adventure/Entertainment/Family game from Joe Kauffman, first launched in 12th October 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 116+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hidden World Stand Out
The strange feeling you had all day followed you to bed that night.
A sudden crash from the next room wakes you from dreams of magical lands, and sets your heart racing in your chest.
Sitting bolt upright in bed, the strange feeling returns as your eyes adjust to the darkness, focusing on the odd wooden symbols across the mantel of the fireplace. Almost as if something were calling you…
Turning on the lamp, you cautiously get up, moving towards the sound that woke you. This is your uncle's house and though you've been here many times, it suddenly feels very different.
The room is littered with wonderfully strange and interesting artifacts, souvenirs from your uncle's travels, from where he would not say. On the floor lays a small tiled box, broken open. Unfolding the paper nestled within it, you instantly recognize the symbols.
The fireplace!
Running back into the bedroom, you examine again the symbols on the paper. They match perfectly those in the woodwork of the mantel, but are arranged differently…
Though your hands are shaking with excitement, you work quickly, rearranging the wooden symbols to match the ones on the paper, hearing them click into place easily one after the other, until the pattern is complete.
Suddenly, beams of golden sunlight burst through the opening in the fireplace, cutting through the darkness in the room. Standing back with a gasp, you look through the opening, eyes wide in awe at the beautiful, magical land from your dream on the other side.
With a deep breath, you step through the opening and take your first steps into another world…
Features:
• Beautiful hand-painted graphics that draw you into this mesmerizing adventure!
• Lots of items to collect and puzzles to solve!
• Original soundtrack and sound effects!
• A journal that keeps track of all the symbols and clues that you encounter.
• A dynamic map that shows all of the areas you have explored, as well as your current location.
• A complete hint system built right into the game.
• The Hidden World has been translated into many languages.
• Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad!
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hidden World is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th February 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes!
Download & Availability
Hidden World 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:
Beautiful magical world. Easy navigation. Fun little puzzles. Game is long enough for what we paid ($2 we think?). Especially like the world and the way new doors appear.
We love the family friendly nature of Fire Maple Games. They aren't dark or creepy and are so well designed. The puzzles, clues, and storyline are all intriguing. We have so enjoyed every one of their games.
We dont often write reviews but this game was magnificent. Not too easy and not too hard. We loved it and you should buy it for that price it was worth it.
We are a fan of the Fire Maple games. Hidden World benefits from the forethought that went into making the puzzles fit in with the story, which the developers seem to get better at with each release. The puzzles themselves are at a medium level of difficulty; just hard enough to make you think, but far from exasperating. We also appreciate how the developers spent time creating clever, organic puzzles that avoid employing the lazy tropes (slider puzzles, combination lock puzzles, tiny hidden objects, finding/using items that make no sense in the story/environment) that many of the games in the genre fall back on. This game, like all of Fire Maples games, is a welcome relief from the gloomy, creepy settings and atmosphere in most of the games in this genre. The music is pleasant and the visuals are colorful, which makes for a stress-free, family-friendly, puzzle-solving experience. The journal and the map are useful features, as well. Overall, this is a nice, calm way to spend a few hours, and scratch that puzzling itch. It doesnt quite measure up to the Room and House of DaVinci games, but its a decent approximation.
But too short! We wish you had more.
Yet another success from Fire Maple Games! The graphics are simply beautiful, and the game play is funjust challenging enough to keep you exploring, but always perfectly intuitive. Please purchase and play all these games! (Only reason we didnt vote five stars is because we save those for The Room series!).
Beautiful graphics and clever plot. But it was just way too short. We just found Fire Maple Games and have played all but Thimbly Creek. The game play is consistent but the length is all over the place. Grisly Manor and this one could be played in a couple of hours. Return to GM and Lost City went on and on. They need some kind of standard about how long their games are going to be IMO. Enjoyed playing it tho. Now the jigsaw puzzle in the other game makes sense.
We cant get the bells to open the wall. We know that we have the right sequence, but we doesnt work. We like the game until this happened.
As with other games from this developer, this game is well designed and executed. The art and music are beautiful, and the puzzles are fun. Overall the game isnt as challenging as it could be and we were able to breeze through it in an hour or so, but it was still enjoyable.
We love these games! They are fun without being maddening. :) our two kids play through all of them every few months.
This game has the best of adventure game features. Great graphics, a wide variety of puzzles, interesting story, well designed screens, and easy game play. The game interface is one of the best. We enjoyed playing this game immensely. Our thanks to the Fire Maple team for such a good game.
We can't do anything in the buildings. Just give us the stuff to find.
We play all of these over and over. They are by far the most creative and intriguing muzzle games on the App Store. Please make more soon.
The puzzles are well-designed, with the clues to their solutions being wonderfully balanced–the clues won't blatantly give you the answer, but they're clear enough that you'll be able to tell which clue goes with which puzzle. It probably gave us a total play time of 2-3 hours split across three days.
This is a great game, excellent point &click, fun puzzles, – we enjoyed playing it. We had to use the hints a few times, but mostly the puzzles were very well done.
Loved this one. It was just the right amount of storyline, suspense and game play. It took us several hours to complete and wasn't too hard nor too easy. Great job.
We absolutely loved this game. If you're a fan of mystery or fantasy of any sort, or just like following a story line, you should totally try this app out. The graphics are incredible and the story is so fun to follow. Fire Maple Games are by far our favourite on the App Store.
Very well designed puzzles. We had to use the hint option 3 times and kept referring back to the map. We probably finished it in about two hours but that was the perfect length for us.
Really interesting,addictive, some puzzles and hidden items difficult but doable. Lots of fun.
Worth $2, no more. Took only 30 minutes to complete. Too easy.
Gorgeous visuals, great puzzles! A wonderful experience. A lot of love and care went into this game. We thoroughly enjoyed playing it.
Love Fire Maple games but this one is the shortest we played.
We enjoyed this game, but it felt much shorter than other Fire Maple Games. We finished it in under 2 hours.
We can't believe that we wasted money on this game. There are no hints for any of the scenes, no maps, etc. Very poorly done.
We loved these games. Beautiful graphics! So much fun! Please hurry and make more.
This game has it all. Great graphics, story line, and puzzles that are not too hard, not too easy. We loved it! We can't wait to play more by Fire Maple.
We absolutely love all three of the fire maple games. We will download all three and pass them all and then delete them. Then in about two months or so, we'll download them and pass them. We wish that there was more games, because they are so fun. They keep us entertained for a long time.
This is one of the best adventure games we have ever played. It really does take you to another world. Teally enjoyed it. Thank you.
Fire Maple Games are, hands down, our favorite. We hope to see many more. The puzzles are challenging without being unnecessarily frustrating. Nice long play. Love it.
And you'll fall in so much FUN.
Difficult enough to be enjoyable, but not so hard that you need to click for hours. Would like it if clicking on places on the map would bring us to that place, but that didn't work for us.
We love the graphics and the story and puzzles are awesome!! Great game to play!! Some puzzles are tricky but a great mind blower.
After playing dozens of adventure games on the iOS, this one stands out as one of the most enjoyable. While we know that such an assessment is an opinion/preference, the difficulty of the puzzles included in this game hit a nice balance. There are no hints available in-game (this is a great plus in our mind), and each puzzle is able to be logically deduced without searching out helps online. Additionally, after a couple hours of focused game-play you will have satisfyingly solved the puzzles on your own – a great feeling of accomplishment having used no hints or cheats. This game nails the balance. Although short, this game is well worth the download.
Actually It's a very good puzzle game we loved it.
We really enjoyed this game. The art is really nice, the puzzles are clever. It's similar to Myst but easier. We appreciated the hints; although we hated using them, sometimes we would just be stuck and they allowed us to move forward.
We have played all three and enjoyed each one.
We love the mix of puzzles and mysteries with none of that cheap 'hide and seek' object stuff, to us hide and seek objects is too easy a way to make a mystery game.
Lovely game with beautiful graphics.
We love hidden object games, and this has definitely been one of our favorites. We only wish it were longer.
Really fun game. Thought-provoking without being overwhelming; the solutions are logical; the map helps keep the layout manageable. We went and bought all their other games as soon as we were through with this one.
Short but sweet. Beautifully rendered with satisfying puzzles. This game is just the right level of difficulty to make you feel clever without getting super frustrated.
If only more games were like this. Point and click adventure, gorgeous graphics, challenging puzzles, no pointless object searches… One of the best.
They need to make more because we are obsessed. Once we finished all of them we played them over and over. We NEED MORE OF THEM.
Mellow adventure targeted at younger players; well-executed. No pixel hunting required.
Just got thru "Hidden World", and was one of the best games we played. Recommended wholeheartedly.
We thought we would buy these games one at a time but they were so awesome we ended up buying all 3. So our advice is go for it we promise you won't regret it.
We still can't believe these guys only have 3 games! These are the BEST we are now replaying them. No bigfish or g5 compare. These are THE BEST.
Please make another game, we have played all 3 and they are very fun.
The graphics are stupendous!! The game is incredibly made and structured. It is appropriately challenged. Our overall thought: perfect.
It's so hard to find games like this. We're sick of "hidden objects" and need more of strategic mysteries like this. Excellent game pack. We got the bundle and could not get off our phone.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.12
- Size: 104.19 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Joe Kauffman
Last updated: 17th February 2024 | Genre: Adventure, Entertainment | Developer: Joe Kauffman