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Secret of the Pendulum – Puzzle Game Review
Secret of the Pendulum is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Adventure game from Games Cafe Inc., first launched in 1st May 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 69+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Secret of the Pendulum Stand Out
Following a series of clues, join our female heroines Lily and Madison. Together you must help solve the murders that transpire in this chilling time-tale mystery. Journey through this thrilling story-driven game navigating the clues that you discover.
GREAT FEATURES:
• Uncover hidden objects from beautifully hand crafted scenes.
• Investigate crimes scenes to bring you closer to the truth.
• Engaging and secretive characters that have their own agendas.
• Enjoy playing with all your friends, share gifts, items, help your friends get items they need to move on, and compete with them in the game Leaderboards if you want.
• Each Episode/Memory brings you closer to unraveling the mystery that lays before you.
• Challenging puzzles that leads you to discover new clues.
• Catch the killers and bring them to justice.
• Adventurous new Episodes/Memories delivered with each major update.
• Works on all iPads supporting iOS 7.0 or higher.
PLEASE NOTE – Secret of the Pendulum is completely free to play, however some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
5/5 Review by CrowofCarnage
“Great animation, great plot line, puzzles aren't too hard or to easy, and it's completely free! There should be more apps like this in the App Store, you guys should make more games like this and free too!!! Super awesome, everyone should get this app it's super fun!!!”
5/5 Review by Rachel4554
“Fun and challenging”
5/5 Review by Deastrid
“Enough challenges to keep you busy!”
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Highly recommended for fans of adventure games like Secret of Monkey Island and hidden object games like Pearl’s Peril.
At GamesCafe we worked hard to make Secret of the Pendulum™ the best game possible. We really hope that you enjoy this game and tell your friends and family! :)
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Secret of the Pendulum is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th April 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
GamesCafe is pleased to give you v1.8.0 update to Secret of the Pendulum! We appreciate your ongoing feedback and especially your Reviews! If you haven’t left a review yet, please do and tell other fans what you think!
Here are the updates in version 1.8.0:
- Fixes some future compatibility issues.
- Performance tweaks and general fixes
- iOS versions lower than 7 are no longer supported
We love to hear from our fans.
Here are some ways to get in touch:
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Twitter:
http://twitter.com/SecretPendulum
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Download & Availability
Secret of the Pendulum is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Secret of the Pendulum 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:
So far we're enjoying this game. Just wish there was a way to earn stars without paying for them.
This is a cool game, we like the story of this game.
Pretty fun, but kind of mindless…but sometime yo want mindless.
Like playing the game but the coin cost of the hidden object scenes is way too high. Other than that we are enjoying the game.
Update: Better. We're learning. Still would like for scenes to not cost so much. Earlier review: we're stuck on memory 3. Certainly not the games fault, but we wish there were ways to earn more hints (or if there are, we'd like to be able to figure that out ). We like it so far, we shall see. Will update review.
We're not thinking that gamble is involved.
We can't figure out what to do with the wires.
Items take multiple taps to register, high scores aren't recorded, and special scenes don't work like they should so that your only option to get past them is to buy and use diamonds. It's too bad, because we like the concept, but the frustration factor over rules.
This game is not fun. Tap and tap repeatedly on an object and it doesn't register. Use one of the previous few hints and it guides you to the exact item you were desperately trying to get in the first place. You get hardly any rewards for tons of work. That's what this game is. Frustrating work. No thanks! We can see why this app was abandoned.
Ok, granted, we've just started, but this game has gone nowhere fast. They start you out with basic tap the arrow, find the pieces, here's a map. Somehow we received 6,000 coins, you go to her apartment, find the puzzle pieces, open the safe, etc. Then what? You play the same hidden object game at 1,000 coins at a time. Your score is never registered, and you have no idea where to go or what to do next…and no instruction either. We'd give this zero stars if we could. There's no logic, it's just …stupid. Going to delete this thing and find something else.
We play these types of games awesome. Great story line and fantastic puzzles.
Love it its very interesting. Its alwaya something to do different puzzlws.
Different puzzles, hidden objects & a story.
We are enjoying playing so far. Thanks.
Great game until you purchase diamonds and never receive them! It is going on 3 weeks and they still have not fixed this issue or even responded to us!!! Basically robbed us of 10 bucks.
Could be more fully developed, but it's a pretty fun way to pass time.
Just started this game, but it is intriguing. We'll see if it can keep our interest.
We hope you will posting more levels soon. We have gone as far as we can go an really enjoy this game. Looking for more levels, please.
It takes time for your score to accumulate, but is worth the wait. Play once a day and enjoy the mystery. Can't wait for more episodes. Y.
Great variety of puzzles, games and story line to keep things interesting. Only downfall is the time it takes for coins to be replenished.
Especially the HO ones that either make you pay for "energy" points or coins in order to continue playing – AND have a weak story line and sub par graphics…… Big Fish, Absolutist, EAR, Elephant games, etc…HELP!! Please put production teams into overdrive and get us some SMART, well developed and thought out games!! HO with sharp graphics, peppered with challenging fun puzzle/strategy games!! PLEASE.
We're getting an error every time we wash away the data like swip up with the data to go away & multiple times we've had to re download it and connect our iPad data but it won't stay together.
This is a typical search for Items game. But in order to progressive game, you need to keep going back to the same scenes over and over. It cost Coins to play the scenes which really drag the game out if you don't pay with real money.
We've enjoyed playing this game but recently we've not been able to play the next memory. We can play previous memories but we can't play the dinosaur memory. App keeps crashing. Overall we enjoy the game.
Great animation, great plot line, puzzles aren't too hard or to easy, and it's completely free! There should be more apps like this in the App Store, you guys should make more games like this and free too!!! Super awesome, everyone should get this app it's super fun.
We've down loaded this game twice bc we can't get the tissue box from the receptionist. Every time is touch the box the receptionist says something like we can now go into the exhibits. She's like too close to the box so when we tap on it the game thinks we're tapping on her. It's a waste of time and all the in app purchases r crazy. We'd skip the tissue box if it would let us but we can't. Games like this really piss us off.
Enough challenges to keep you busy.
Had no choice but to update in order to continue playing. The game was okay before the update. After updating, we can't see pictures of our exhibit but can still click on it to collect money. The pictures of the items that we have in our storage is also visually missing. Please please rectify this.
New review: not a bad hidden image game. One of the biggest problems is there are no fewer than four in-game currencies, not counting real-life money they want you to spend. The replay of the levels isn't as bad as we feared but the rate of coin generation is a bit too low. Game is still not complete yet. Old review: Nice graphics. However, game requires you to pay or constantly replay scenes. Basically, grinding a hidden image game. Very annoying. Dial back the repetition.
We like this game very much. However, we keep earning stars and still no new task to complete. We just updated thinking we will find the subway tokens and still nothing. We hope you guys get this game fixed soon because we enjoy playing and we don't want to get upset and delete it.
The game is a freemium hidden object game with elements of an adventure game blended in via the use of unlockable chapters (or memories, as the game calls them). It has a compelling storyline, but unfortunately, the game isn't finished at this time and stops after chapter 7. There's no telling if or when the game and the story will be completed, so keep that in mind before you decide to invest substantial time or money in playing it.
The tutorial never shuts off, you gave no idea what you're supposed to be doing, and it keeps pandering for a 5 star review. No thanks.
Games seems ok a little on the fly with what to do next. But in all a good game.
It could be a good game but like most games with in-app purchases the use it as a way of limiting game play. This would be fine except it is SO restricted you play for a minute or two until you hit that limit. Not nearly long enough to grab your attention and want more. In-App purchases are that of greedy developers. Just let us pay one price and be done with it.
We've only just gotten started in this game, but we're already involved with the characters of the story. We can't wait to see where this goes.
We have spent three months playing this game only to find out that Memory eight is not available. DO NOT BUY.
We just started but already intrigued.
Not a review but a concern: Was playing today and had about 20,000 coins saved up and went to do the hidden object in the gift shop. Wheni clicked on play for 2250 coins we noticed the coin counters as a little off. We completed the object finding game and noticed we now have over a million coins!?!? We mean…we are not complaining but now we're not sure what to do because we likely have enough money to plow through the game instead of doing the challenges. Not sure if this glitch has occurred before, but we've done 3 chapters and was about to start building our 4th exhibit.
Been frustrated since it takes much time needed to proceed to next chapter. Yeah, we should pay, of course.
Game freezes up right after we complete the very first statue puzzle.
Only try it . Good graphic and nice story, what do you want? Download this game.
You can either spend money or give this app 5 stars.
So many in app purchase upsells and overwrought options make this unpleasant to play. Redoing the same hidden picture over and over is not fun. Deleted.
Beautiful graphics and a possibly good storyline house the slowest, most annoying hidden object game that we have ever tried. Your patience and pocket will suffer.
The description on the app store lists no in-app purchases. The game is full of them. Want to play a scene? Better have a star or it will cost you $0.99. Skip a puzzle? Purchase gems. The building of exhibits could have been an interesting premise, but we refuse to waste our time on a game that tries to nickel and dime us. Even worse, they hide that fact! Deleted.
We feel bad for the early adopters who paid $5 for this thing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8.0
- Size: 607.07 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Games Cafe Inc.
Last updated: 15th April 2016 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: Games Cafe Inc.