Last updated on November 28th, 2025 at 10:24 pm
Time Guardians: Hidden Mystery – Puzzle Game Review
Time Guardians: Hidden Mystery is a Puzzle/Adventure game from Nordcurrent UAB, first launched in 25th April 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,000+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Time Guardians: Hidden Mystery Stand Out
CAPTIVATING HIDDEN OBJECT ADVENTURE GAME
Embark on an epic story-driven hidden object game, set in the stunning beauty of London during Victorian times. Find hidden clues in mysterious locations, solve exciting puzzles, and clear up the most audacious theft in the history of mankind in this thrilling hidden object game!
An unknown force has stolen the Time Machine from its protectors – The Order of Time Guardians. Your journey begins as an elite agent of the Order, with what seems like a straightforward task – uncover the hidden force behind the theft of the Time Machine. But little did you imagine that history itself could be turned upside down in your quest for justice. The Egyptian pyramids, the Roman Colosseum, and other historic locations appear out of nowhere. King Richard, Michelangelo and many other historic characters start to roam the streets of London. With a cast of interesting characters, you will discover and experience a fabulous tale unlike any other. The Order of Time Guardians takes you inside an enchanting, mysterious world, filled with hidden object scenes for you to explore. Can you overcome the obstacles, and solve the sophisticated puzzles and minigames, to discover the secret? Join The Order of Time Guardians and find out!
This addicting hidden object game features:
- Set in beautiful Victorian era London
- Intriguing characters from different historic eras
- Various hidden object locations from different time periods
- Creative puzzles and mini-games to enjoy
- 700 mysterious quests to solve
- Hundreds of achievements and collectible items
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Time Guardians: Hidden Mystery is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th August 2021
Recent improvements include:
Various minor improvements to make your gaming experience better.
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Download & Availability
Time Guardians: Hidden Mystery is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Time Guardians: Hidden Mystery 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:
This game is a little different than the other hidden object game Ive tried. There are less items, and a timer count down. However, the energy also recharges a lot faster in this game. Plus, we love time travel.
We really enjoy this game. Each one we think uses to much energy, and it is used up very quickly, but it is a really enjoyable, relaxing game.
Definitely not boring rather the opposite. Entrancing. Time as we know whisks away.
We love this just wish theyd update to fix minor bug issues and maybe make the scenes 50 to 60 energy points needed for each scene.
We give this game 5 stars love it but theres a problem with the app cant log in.
We enjoy Nordcurrent games. This game is more for the strategic gamer. If this is too busy for you, you will enjoy Murder in the Alps far more. Ultimately a well designed game. Thanks for making it.
No Halloween House this year is disappointing.
There must have been an update because all of a sudden we are getting cannot connect to server issues after completing a game. The only way to get the app to restart is to power off and restart the device you are using for the game. Please return the game to the way it was.
Started out, loving this game, but too much energy not enough awards not worth a little time we have. We are going to delete it. Lots of possibilities, but not there yet.
Been playing for a week or two and we dont hate this game, in general we enjoy it. But we doubt Ill be playing it for long. There is very low contrast on the scenes which makes it difficult to see many of the objects. If the scenes were higher quality, this might not be as big of an issue. But when you zoom in, its just extremely pixelated and doesnt make much clear. Theres also issues with zooming in any of the special modes. Hidden object, find the difference, etc. Most of the time zooming makes it even more difficult to see or to move around the scene. We enjoy this game but it gives us eye strain so we probably wont play it for long.
The game is really fun but with the last update it doesnt seem to save our progress. We have leveled up to 19 multiple times. Every time we go back in the game Im back on level 18. Please fix. So frustrating.
Your friends list is not editable so once you add someone you cannot take them off. Ever. Also, there is no way to signal to other players that youre a real human being so we think almost everyone on our friends list is a bot, and that took the wind completely out of our sails when we realized this about the game. The logic games are prohibitively difficult. Its to the point with a couple of them that we stop playing from time to time just to be able to afford the gems needed to buy our way out of them, and that is rarely cheap. Also, if you accidentally enroll yourself in a challenge you cant ever exit that challenge. Youre stuck in it until the challenge is over – which usually lasts a few days. By challenge we mean when you finish certain tasks fast you wind up getting a free 5 point energy boost. If you play, you know what Im talking about. You have to make sure you find things fast enough so you can get that free bottle of energy which is worth 5. If you join a challenge you no longer get energy if you find things fast enough. You get whatever the game replaces with energy during the challenge. So right now Im collecting roses instead of energy. This was an accident. We want to collect energy. We really dont care about these roses. We never collect enough to make joining these challenges worth our time. Also, you cannot bulk use your energy bottles. So if youve collected 45 of these 5 point energy bottles plan on sitting there for a super long time having to cash in every single one one by one. It takes forever. Coders could easily allow people to choose how many they want to use, but this is not an option. This is a major time waste and its actually something we think about when we start to play this game. Oh great, we have to sit here for 10 minutes redeeming these 5 point energy bottles. Same thing for when we want to share our goods with other players who are requesting items we might have. Coders could very easily put a tiny little number above the item (located in that screen where you can share energy with other players on your friend list, or share items they are requesting) so you dont have to waste time clicking on the item to see how many you have so you can determine if you can share one with them. This is a HUGE <- time waste. -> HUGE and completely unnecessary. Coders. Please put a number above our items so we dont have to waste our time repeatedly pushing every single item on a single players requested items to find out if we can share with them. Theyre asking for 5 things and we cant see which ones we can give them because we have to sit there and push on every single one individually for a bare minimum of 10 players. Thats 50 pushes 50 windows popping up and if im lucky Ill find one we can share with. We have to do this hundreds of times sometimes before we can share 10 items. This process has been why we have reduced our time playing this game. This process right here. Its like the game developers dont understand that tedium isnt addictive. Its a deterrent. There is no positive reinforcement happening when players have to exhaust themselves to SHARE with other players. Love the graphics. Dont love the fact were forced to do these logic puzzles. We enjoy a couple of them but there are a couple are are simply too much. Im trying to have fun here, and some of these logic puzzles are quite the deterrent at the end of a long day.
We can only play two or three games at a time.
Last challenge we made 205 wrenches (requirement was 200) and won the grand prize, only to log in the next day to find our hard earned prizes gone and the pop up message saying sorry you didnt win this time. Given that we had to buy extra gems to play enough to make them ,youd think a game would be able to keep track of the fact that youd won. Not happy.
The game forces you to watch long ads. You are not able to opt out. Its a good game except for constant ADS.
We dont know if there is no support for this game anymore. Every time we open it to play we have to start over. Ive leveled a good amount Im tired of starting over. Gave you some money, luckily not a lot. Please update your game.
We just started this game but we really like it.
The game keeps crashing. You load it up, it crashes. You try it again and it crashes. After maybe the fifth or sixth time loading it, it works. For maybe 2 minutes then crashes again.
Downloaded to get coins in Cooking fever. This one is better than other Nordcurrent games in terms of playing. But no different than every game out there. Nothing new. Developers and programmers simply capitalize on existing games. Seen same format many times. Boring.
We have been playing this game for almost 2 years except for the Last 3 months because as soon we enter the game now it crashes. We tried deleting and reinstalling the game with no success. Our wife can continue to play her game on her iPad without crashing problems. Support has been useless which makes this even more frustrating. Anyone else have this problem and is there a remedy.
We just had a hotdog and the bread has those little white things on em. We didnt like it but the cheese was melted so that was yummy.
We have only been playing the game a few days but we find it very interesting and challenging, without being discouragingly difficult.
Your game keeps kicking us out and Ive had to repeat scenes losing energy and diamonds we used to complete the scene.
The game is fun. However, the reason we rate it so low is – 1. It takes an unreasonable amount of energy to do anything. 2. Watching a 30 second ad for an additional 30 seconds of play time makes solving a complex puzzle incredibly frustrating. In some cases just undoing your previous attempt takes the entire 30 seconds you earned by watching the ad. 3. Amulets are too expensive and they are the only way to make play bearable. 4. Energy does not replenish quickly enough to make it worth waiting around. 5. The game is kinda buggy – claims our network is down, but everyone in the house is on it and theyre fine, game reloads at unexpected times, and energy doesnt always refresh at all when the game is not being played. Im quickly losing interest in the game because there is nothing to do in between the hours when the energy is replenishing.
Every time we pay 5 gems to participate in the microchip event, the game resets the last 5 minutes. PLEASE fix ASAP(preferably before the event is over.) Update 2: we found another glitch where the games closes out once you collect the reward for chapter III. Please fix ASAP.
We just downloaded it for the first time. Within 5 minutes, it crashed 5 times.
We just downloaded today and already the game has crashed 3 times in the first scene. We have an iPhone 12 with the most updated app and the latest iOS.
Last month an update was rolled out for the game and since ive updated it has been crashing nonstop and at random points. Usually its fixed by restarting our phone or wifi but now im stuck on a level where the game keeps crashing at the same exact point. Nothing is fixing it its been a week now (ive reinstalled the game multiple times) Ive contacted support and they sent us a confirmation email but we got no helpful response from them Now its getting frustrating and im thinking of deleting the game once and for all.
This game glitches constantly and is so annoying. They have horrible customer service. Dont waste your money.
This game locks up stops working FIX it man up correct your errors.
1) amount of energy required to play each scene is ridiculous, you can only do three puzzles or games at a sitting 2) it's buggy; for instance we just now had to close the gems puzzle as the game didn't detect there were no available moves and did not trigger a reset, even though we had five moves left 2a) crashes with some frequency, meaning you lose a lot of energy (see point 1) 3) we don't mind watching ads to get more time or moves, in fact they are mostly entertaining in themselves, but the ads are frequently buggy also; and don't make us watch an ad AFTER we completed a puzzle, it just makes us angry 4) we hate hate HATE their morphing mode; each morph takes too much time, and the item jumps around the screen, simply annoying 5 the microtransactions are too expensive. We might give you a buck or two at a time but 10$? Forget you. Having said all that, this is the best and most interesting of this type of game we've ever played. Good visuals, a story line you can follow, better by far than Seekers Notes or Midnight Castle. And you can actually see the items in the scenes. We would give it 5 stars except for our above-mentioned notes–that's how aggravating the problem areas are.
Has many glitches where rewards are lost, majority of scenes are time dependent, so not relaxing to play or no ability to strategize. Hard to determine any goal other than beat the clock.
Text is way too small. Items to search for are sometimes so small you cant see what they are. Add timed searches to that and you have an extremely frustrating game. Deleting.
The game is pretty good when its working. Could be less money grabbing, gets in your face a bit much. Really, the game is addictive enough that they could back off and probably make more money bc more would play. Some scenes are a bit dark, which we dont enjoy, we much prefer the brighter ones. Our main issue, and why we gave one star, is that their server cant handle the volume of players, especially when events are going. Been getting the server is not responding try again in 15 min for over a day now. Got one scene in this morning, thought yay its fixed… But no, back to the message. Glad we didnt activate an amulet! The problem is definitely on their end, and many others have reported the same issue. Support just sends automated replies, so far no actual response. Finger hovering over the delete button.
It keeps saying our internet connection is bad and glitched so that we cant progress at all without it saying the server needs to reconnect or something? Also quests dont fulfill sometimes but the game is interesting.
We like this game expect the other game Murder in the Alps had sound. We like that u can chose your icon it just that we feel like Im playing scenes for no reason. The drawing are great. But what is with the energy bar. So here is a recommendation if u dont like this game than play Murder in the Alps. So make the sound because that is what will make this game better. Thank u for making this game.
Love this game! Only thing that could be improved on is the hints! Every time they show you a new hint tool they make you use one and it takes one away from your usage when you dont need to use it! They should show how to use it free. Otherwise this is a really great game.
Smart, funny and very enertaining.
Fun game, beautiful graphics, and sure the energy could be better, but its way better than most appsI find we can play for free for longer than most. Our only complaints are what some others said: there is a lot going on, so sometimes you dont know where to go next, and if you open one thats suggested, you do run out of energy before you can, say, fill orders at the pier, etc. Also better zoom would help, as some objects are hard to see. Other than that, fantastic game! Downloaded after we ran out of Murder In the Alps episodes (still like that one better).
The most recent update (Oct 2020) has limited the energy bar. Im will not continue with that limitation. Whats the point of double energy and the exciting prize of 2000 energy that a player occasionally wins from the ship? We have spent money because up to this point we have considered the developers efforts should be compensated. Ill keep an eye on it for a little while, but if this energy limitation continues, we will delete the game.
Great game, beautiful graphics but sometimes very hard to see. Pictures are obviously developed on larger screen than a standard ipad screen. Cannot enlarge by pinching either. Please fix.
We like the game even though it takes too much energy to play and advance the game play. There is no clear way to know what quest you are on and the necessary steps to complete a task and advance the quest. We think developers need to work on this.
Lots of interactions to be had and plenty of ways to gain more energy without spending real money. Love it.
Just began playing the game so we cant give it a true 5 star review. However, from what we have done it is enjoyable.
The game is pretty but as many noted, very limited energy. Add in that most of the puzzles are timed and most practically require you to use power ups to complete. You end up with a pretty game, with what might be a good story, that you will never see the end off. Some might like this style of game but not us.
Game seems ok but it is too busy and hard to follow. What is really bad is such small print for older folks to read. Plus we dont need to be challenged in the time. We will probly delete this.
This is a great game when it works, there is way too many problems , and it cost way to much, too much energy , too much money, this has to be one of the most expensive games one line, if you dont spend money it is almost impossible to progress.
Please add a zoom feature objects are too small to see. Too frustrating to play without a zoom feature.
Too much going on. Not enough hidden objects. Reading crap the whole time.
It doesn't make sense that the hidden object games don't have you find the items that are actually part of the challenge. The scenes just have you find the same things over and over. Not very interesting.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.33
- Size: 206.08 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nordcurrent UAB
Last updated: 26th August 2021 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Nordcurrent UAB