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Built around the Christmas Festival, Mixo Games has released The Season of Joy product.  Available in Collector's Edition format, this product comes with a number of bonus items to supplement the main mixture of puzzle type games.  With options to adjust volume levels for background music and sound effects plus viewing the action in full screen mode with a cursor depicting a gloved hand, there is a choice of Casual, Normal or Extreme difficulty levels.

Adding to its catalogue of titles, Revills Games has released Santa's Christmas Solitaire 3.  This mixture of card and mini game action is built around a festive holiday adventure.  You join this adventure in an attempt to solve the mystery of what happened to all the missing presents that Father Christmas was planning to deliver on Christmas Eve. Aided by elves and fairies, you can set about creating the game's working environment.

As you might suppose from its title, Art by Numbers 2, is the follow-up offering to AWIGOR's previous product.  Following the pattern created by the initial offering, this follow-up title continues to deliver the tools needed to "paint by numbers" and indulge in some "free colouring action" to show off their artistic eye.  Whatever your choice of producing coloured output, you can use any of the 72 detailed sketches as your starting point.

With Gaslamp Cases 9, e-Funsoft brings us its Match 3 offering of The Ghost Automaton City.  As with other titles in the Gaslamp Cases series, this tale relates the adventures of a pair of Victorian detectives.  This duo always manage to become involve in various situations without any apparent effort on their part and thus provide a gaming situation.

Taking a fresh approach to Hidden Object Adventure game play, Grandma embarks on Stephen's Journey in its City of Stories series.  You will need to follow Stephen on his journey as he sets out to forge a career and help raise his family's farm which has fallen on hard times.

Delayed slightly due to the pressure of work in progress, an invite has arrived to join a mysterious Halloween party organised by Vlad.  This event is being held at his secluded Romanian hotel that is often referred to by the local inhabitants as The Hotel Frightsylvania.  This location and festival forms the latest release in Domini Game's series of Hidden Object Adventure series of titles.

Tiny Little Lion continues with its scheme to test the player's ability to solve a variety of mini game puzzles.  This latest test comes in the shape and form of So Much Stuff 4 which is available as a Collector's Edition product and comes supplied with a number of bonus offerings.  As you might expect, this title follows the same pattern as that used by version 3 of this particular series of themes and puzzle types.

It is time to take a break and relax.  While in this restful state you can accept the challenge offered by the Relax Games' latest release.  Entitled H.O. Secrets - The Whitefield Murder, is the next offering under review and it is available in Collector's Edition format for Hidden Object fans.

When looking for suitable presents that will appeal to the younger members of the family, the toy industry make4s sure you have a wide range of choice from which to make your selection.    Issues such as an immediate appeal mixed in with elements such as creativity, learning and sustainability can all help when making your decision.  Perhaps the next few items will be of assistance when making a selection for the inquisitive child.

After visiting Japan for the last Adventure Mosaics excursion, DIGIMIGHT has selected Brazil and its carnival for its next location in which to place its Nonogram game play.  As usual with titles from this series, you can create profiles to allow different people to have their progress recorded.  Adjustments can be made to various volume levels, select your choice of tile sets and opt for either Casual or Advanced level of difficulty when working with Nonogram layers.

Adding to its Halloween Trouble series of titles, Ironcode has released the sixth entry which is entitled Pumpkin Revenge.  Classified as a Match 3 game, which also offers a number of mini game puzzles as an additional incentive, this title involves a battle for supremacy for control of the local forest.

Brightstone Mysteries - The Other is a Hidden Object Adventure title from Cateia Games.  This latest version has been remastered with enhanced graphics and a revamped interface.  As I seemed to have missed out on the original version of the title, I am unable to comment on any possible improvement regarding the title's performance and appearance.

AVI Games latest excursion into the world of Big Adventure game play comes in the form of Trip to Europe 7.  As with the previous entries in this series, this game presents a mixture of Hidden Object game play and mini game puzzles as you accompany a family of four on their vacation.

Just over three years ago e-Funsoft introduced the game playing brigade to its Gaslamp series of titles.  This series is based on the cases of two Victorian detectives.  Rather than the more famous duo of Homes and Watson, these two detectives were named Morgan Johnson and Jack Brown.  Their recorded activities became the focus of Match 3 game play.

"Suricate Software","Jewel Match Solitaire Seasons"As part of its Jewel Match series of game playing offerings, Suricate Software has released Solitaire Seasons title.  Available in Collector's Edition format, this digital Solitaire card game comes with a promise that it will take the player on a year-round adventure of Solitaire action.  This will involve 1,000 levels of card playing spread across ten different locations.

Are you ready to enter a world where Dadaism meets Hidden Object game play in a puzzling offering?  This is the challenge that Tiny Little Lion places before you with its offering of Gallery of Things - Reveries.  While this title allows you to adjust volume levels for background music and various sound effects plus make a selection from a choice of resolutions, it neglects to allow you to create profiles for different players as it only allows single player action to be recorded.

With an opening of a floating wreath sinking beneath the waves as it reaches the shore, Friendly Fox introduces you to Dark City - Kyiv.  This Hidden Object Adventure game casts you in the role of Detective Agatha, a specialist in the uncovering of fraudulent psychics.  You have been asked to investigate an outbreak of spiritualist frauds that were currently taking place in the city of Kyiv.

Opening with a warning regarding its content, Halloween Stories - Written in Blood is a Hidden Object Adventure game from Elephant Games that is available in Collector's Edition format that bundles a number of bonus items to supplement the main game.

Mystical Riddle - Ghostly Park is a Hidden Object adventure title from the Domini catalogue of games.  I have been looking at the product's Collector's Edition version for the purpose of this review.  This enhanced version of the offering comes with a number of bonus items to supplement the basic games involving the search for a long-lost sister and what was once a joyful amusement park which was now shrouded in darkness and disrepair.

If you thought it was safe enough to venture out during the hours of darkness after completing the IKi game of Spooky Dwellers 2 with its offering of Match 3 action, then think again.  Obviously IKi Games has other thoughts.  The company believes you are ripe to be further tested with regards to dealing with all forms of the skeletons, ghosts, eerie creatures and other mystical beings who inhabit the nether world of gaming playing environments that occur during the Halloween period.