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Surface: Reel Life HD – A Supernatural Hidden Object Mystery – Entertainment Game Review
Surface: Reel Life HD – A Supernatural Hidden Object Mystery is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Adventure game from BFG Entertainment Inc., first launched in 13th April 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 208+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Surface: Reel Life HD – A Supernatural Hidden Object Mystery Stand Out
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A famous actor has literally stepped out of the screen to kidnap your niece. Now you must find a way into the dangerous and exciting world of the film to save her!
• FOLLOW YOUR NIECE INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA
You receive a frantic phone call from your sister, Mary, who just saw her daughter Jane get abducted by Andrew… Jane’s late fiancée!
• A JUNGLE FILM COMES TO LIFE
The film showing at the legendary Deja View Cinema has come to life! Poison spitting plants, monkeys, and tigers are wreaking havoc in the theater!
• STOP A TRAGIC ENDING!
Set off on an exciting adventure beyond the silver screen to save your niece! Rely on your wits to find hidden objects and solve challenging mini-games and puzzles.
• RESCUE ANDREW LIGHT IN THE BONUS CHAPTER
Earn achievements and collect hidden flowers to unlock a secret room with even more mini-games! Plus, enjoy exclusive extras like intriguing wallpapers and concept art.
This game is best experienced on iPhone 4s/iPod Touch 5th gen and up.
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Surface: Reel Life HD – A Supernatural Hidden Object Mystery is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th April 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Surface: Reel Life HD – A Supernatural Hidden Object Mystery is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
No problems other than having to tap with a little more pressure to get through this problem free game. Using an iPad 4 and loved every minute playing. Recommended.
Something beautiful, something new one thing. It's fantastic to review. Loved this game. Can't wait for another great game. Always a Lady.
High quality game from Elephant. Good story, a nice mix of puzzles and HOPs, and some bonus things to search. Had no crashes. Bonus game a good length, puzzles easy to medium, interactive map and journal.
Graphics are so beautiful and of a very high quality and an intriguing story line, which is usual for the Surface series. Mini games are great and new. There are lots of beautiful animations… As always in these series you collect the flowers and get a great bonus…the game has a very helpful transporting map and Help button…so you don't need a Strategy guide…thank you Elephant games, it was a pleasure to play it ! It is another "Wow" Game.
Excellent graphics and interactive characters. Also, great storyline. Only endured one crash in the beginning but did not lose our place in the game when we reloaded it, although we did have to repeat what we had previously accomplished before the crash. Nevertheless, we reely loved this game.
We give it 5 stars because of the bonus play, it made up for sudden crashes and a quite short main game. The quality with Elephant is always high, could have been better though. We still prefer the Xmas, grim tales and mistery trackers series.
Liked this game and the graphics.
Enjoyed the game. Has all the features we look for in a game. Thanks BF.
This is a great game! Don't want to stop playing . Love it so far.
This is awesome and we haven't even finished yet. The hops, puzzles and game itself is amazing. Great job BF elephant.
Thank you, Elephant Games, for another in the enchanting Surface series! We are really impressed with the quality of this game so far! Are you a fan of the movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo, in which the Hero comes into the actual theater through the movie screen to carry on a romance with a human woman in the audience? That is similar to the premise of this exciting game. You are tracking Jane, who was carried off by a movie character in that fashion. What a great mystery! As with most Elephant Games, the Hint, Skip, and Transporting Map features work quite well. We love collecting the little jeweled flowers in the Surface series. Sometimes they are merely stuck on a letter, or they may seem like a natural part of the scene. And there are usually two or three per scene! Items in Inventory are well labeled, and usually easy to obtain. There is not a "tapping" problem with these Elephant Games, as sometimes happens with other vendor games. We love the humorous comments, such as the movie character who ducks to avoid a spear, and remarks, "Hey, we got tired of always being killed." our favorite part of the game so far was creating a 50s style pinball game of King Kong. Your task was to rearrange the flippers and other pinball parts to land your ball in the hole. We LOVE pinball, so this was exciting for us. We may have to look up this puzzle in the Extras section, and replay it a few times! For an interesting new twist on mysteries, buy this game while it is on sale. You will be pleased and entertained.
We were at the part where we were going to help Jane to get to the tower then suddenly there was this flash and now Im back at the beginning of the game. Again what the heck.
Enjoyed the game. Had 3 problems. 2 of the problems happened where we finished doing something and then the game would shut down. We were able to go back in after making sure game was restarted and was able to keep playing. 1 (The worst) was we did something out of order and we had to restart the entire game. We were lucky because we felt we were still close enough to the beginning that we didnt mind restarting the entire game one time.
Fun game but had Bugs that caused resets several times. It was hard to click on items and pick them up without pressing many times. Also on the pier you should not be able to put the rope on the statue and door before you pick up the saw handle. The game was challenging which was good. If items didnt have to be clicked on multiple times and the saw was accessible After the rope was attached to the statue, we would have given this game 5 stars.
Seems like another great "Surface" game. Fix the bugs and get star #5.
This last crash was like a Dj vu because the game reset itself towards the end and we could not access the bonus chapter. The same reset happened towards the beginning of the game and we replayed it through again. Too bad, the game was really good. We never found out the end of the story. Really disappointed that we have to give a good otherwise well done game such a low score.
We enjoyed this game, and it had no bugs or crashes. The puzzles, while not too difficult, were fun. The hint button was more helpful then the map. Glad it was on sale.
So far, seems like a good game, no crashes, or freeze ups.
We always enjoy Surface games and this one too has great graphics and story but it seemed like it went by too fast.
We were a bit disappointed with this Elephant Game, they are usually much better. Of course the graphics were good in the HOS but not so much in the actual game. The storyline was pretty dumb too. We expected more out of an Elephant Game but playing it was still enjoyable.
Good story line, great graphics, casual play has rapid hint recharge button, and going to inventory to finish HOS is unique.
Pretty bizarre storyline, a little difficult to follow. However, good graphics, and nice hidden object scenes. Thank goodness there was a map, which was much needed. Suggestion: These trials are getting shorter each time. We need to have longer ones in order to evaluate the game better! Liked the fact, that it was a decent size game. The shorter ones are too expensive for what we get for our $. Thank You, KdBoots.
Fun game. Would have given 5 stars but was way to short.
Crashes multiple times during the HOGs. But found if we went slow in hog by tapping each hidden object separately… And waited for the item to cross out before selecting next hidden object…we were able to avoid crashes and could finish game. Besides the crashes…game is a lot of fun! Better than the last surface game.
Bugs, not letting us pick up some object ugh.
So far so good. We think it will keep your interest. Graphics are pretty good. Will continue to see if it gets a 4 or 5 rating. A little early to say.
After our last review praising Elephant Games, we were not that impressed with this one. True, great graphics, hint button and transporting that are a must in our book. However, the storyline was a little wacko..even the character names were ridiculous. But we guess one can come up with just so many fairy princess vs. Evil witch/ghost/Hexon beast etc. However, we did love the varied games within the game…they were interesting and challenging and entertaining and not just the samo HOP. Hello to the great reviewers …hope you all are well and surviving the Spring showers…now to load our horses onto the Ark… Hossy.
We downloaded this first thing this morning. Finished it in about 90 minutes. Didn't feel like we got our money's worth.
Looks like this might be a 'reely' good game, but trial period is too short…again! Why not give a bit longer to make up one's mind? Will probably buy, we usually buy all the games put out, but please make demos longer.
Had to keep going back to the beginning every time we went to play it, it would crash and we would have to start at the beginning again. Very disappointed.
This game has crash issues AND story issues. It probably is the silliest story we have tried and definitely not worth $6.99.
We are on Ipad2 that we have not moved forward to latest IOS. Will try one more time to see if progress saves then if not, ask for refund. All other games from Big Fish have saved fine.
We can't review this game thoroughly because it kept restarting from the beginning even though we saved it. After the 3rd time, we had had enough. It had decent graphics and a good story. There was a diary, non-spoiler hint system and strategy guide. Inventory was labeled and there was a teleport map, which was pretty useless because every location was labeled because it had an objective. We are lazy! Tell us where there's an actual task! The HO scenes were pretty standard, and the mini-games were not that great. Elephant Games, the last few have had their problems! Fix them! Hi Dream Team! Your fearless leader has returned from Houston! From Lynxie.
Our game reset too and we were almost done!!! For the game artists: Andrew Light just looked too fake compared to how realistic the other characters looked. Maybe because you were too heavy handed with the shading on his face and the lined eyes ( to make him look evil?) or maybe you didn't base him on a real person like the others or both.
Got way into the game.Quit, came back and had to start from the beginning of the game.Twice now with BF games.Junk.
Crashes every time we put blow torch together. When go back to game it goes in unlock game mode. We think this would be a great game if we could play without the crashes.
Unless you are going to play this game from beginning to end all in one Setting then youll never get anywhere because this game goes back to the very beginning each and every time you open it! The creators have no intentions of fixing this game. Since Fish was bought out they could care less if you buy a game and it doesnt work! Im done with FISH.
We saw it on sale with a trial, but during the trial it crashed, exactly as described by other reviews. DO NOT BUY.
Big fish totally missed the mark on this game. Cant put our name in. Cant even play the game. There nothing about this game that works, unless you count the money big fish is steeling from customers.
Got to the first hos and just crashed.. Crashed . Crashed! Nwill not purchase even at discount price.
We played this game when it first came out. It crashed, but kept our place. Now, we crashed twice when doing the HO scene in the room with the popcorn maker. Open the cabinet, find all the objects and CRASH, so we needed to start over. The hint button tells you if you need to go to a new location and it allows you to teleport there. There's a lot of unnecessary back and forth, like most of these games. Most moves are pretty logical, but not all. You'll need the hint button. The games are different, at least the pinball game was. We'll keep this on our watch list for a sale price and to see if they fixed the crash problem. We don't consider the intro price reasonable. And we certainly won't buy a game that crashes.
We love these games, but we are getting a little tired of wasting our money. We have 2 big fish games that we paid for and no longer work on ios8, no updates! Now this new game…every time we go back to play more, the game has reset and starts from scratch! Very frustrating! Please UPDATE YOUR GAMES SO THAT THEY WILL WORK.
We want our money back. Game glitch won't let us play to completion. It resets itself. Let us know if you fix it as we'd like to actually play.
Do NOT buy this game until they have an updated version. We have tried playing this game 3 different times, because every time we came back to it, it had reset our progress. Ugh! We do a lot with our iPad, so we can't sit for hours playing one single game without getting out of the game to do some serious tasks occasionally. We mean, come on, these are called "casual games" for a reason; so you can play them casually, whenever you find time, and come back later to play more! We just spent a buttload on BF games with the Memorial Day sale; and now we regret doing so. We hate when Big fish does this, rushes a game to iOS but doesn't thoroughly test it (and it happens far too often so they can have their "new game every day" slogan).
Poor hints…and if you hit the hint button too many times, it slams you….poorly written and hard to follow….no sense to the script and it is hit or miss…wish we had not wasted our money…plus it crashes and loses your placing……one of the worse games we have ever played…who thought this was a good game needs to have their reality check light turned back on…or were they paid to get something gout the door and Forget about quality and customer satisfaction.
This game worked well for the first few sessions. Then it started to crash. When it does crash it starts over at the beginning. Deleting and reloading doesn't help. It ran for less than 10 minutes before crashing after a reload.
We don't know how these people get by with taking our money and getting away with games that freeze up over and over. Don't waste your $ on this one, what a rip off.
This game – the paid version of course – has now crashed and restarted 3 times.
If it gets fixed, then we will come back and rate it. Would have loved it, but not playing the same thing 3 times.
What a disappointment! We've had to restart three times. Should we be surprised? Seems recently the games from Big Fish are poorly made and monitored by the support team. We'd ask for a refund, but we know it would be ignored. We've been a loyal customer for over 10 years. Both on PC and iPad. Shame on you BF.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 1,244.55 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: BFG Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 13th April 2015 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: BFG Entertainment Inc.