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Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn 
ExclusiveTwo weeks after the events of Nightmare Adventures: The Witch's Prison, Kiera Vale finds herself drawn back into a web of occult sciences, mysterious dark entities, and government secrets -- woven by the agency known as A.R.C.A.N.E.. Kiera is happy to receive the call, but soon after her arrival finds that things are not at all how she remembers them to be. What are these agents hiding, and why didn't they tell her the whole story? What is the true nature of the Blackwater "Witch"? Why is Dr. Thorn's young daughter locked up in a containment cell? From the top secret labs in the depths of A.R.C.A.N.E.'s headquarters to the distant spires of alien worlds, Ms. Vale will seek answers, solve cryptic puzzles, banish evil otherdimensional creatures, and perhaps even make a new friend over a game of Piggy Princess along the way, in Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
- CPU: 2.0 GHz
- RAM: 1024 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 392 MB
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Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn
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Quite a challenging adventure game
Review on completed game:
Good story, return to ARCANE, as Kiera discovers more about her mysterious past that connects her to witchcraft.
No HOS
VOS
Good characters
Journal (PDA)
Puzzles, very hard, use camera shots as clues. Long skip button
Enjoyable, but I needed to use the walk thru and hints quite a bit.
Spoiler: this game has a cliff hanger
Good length: 5.25 hours casual
January 29, 2013
Great Puzzle and Adventure Game
Not a typical game! No HO at all and if you liked the first in the series, you'll like this. Have replayed the original several times and this one uses the same familiar game mechanics. Truly a game for someone who wants no help and wants to stumble around blindly and hopefully looking for ideas of what to do next. Hint system good, in that it would suggest direction and unless you were in the very room as the action wouldn't penalize you for the hint. When you still had no idea (happened regularly) it would tell you where to look or what to note. The only truly negative thing I can say is that the puzzle logic was sometimes quite obscure, other times blindingly straightforward (though I usually tried to make it more complex and thus shot myself in the foot so to speak). I found the blog walkthrough critical but was disappointed it often wouldn't tell me the "logic" of the puzzle just the solution. Would have preferred a little more clarity in the "how to" of the puzzles but nevertheless this is a great game and provided hours of fun. I believe I could replay it right now (have played it for a couple of hours each of three nights) and would still stumble around. Definitely replayable!!! One more thing of importance, I think, so I don't scare anyone off. You wander around, yes, but you do logical things. You look at desks, in drawers, on the ground. No sparkles just looking. Any what you find will give you ideas. Anyway, definitely try this game. I loved it!
January 28, 2013
Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn
Nice graphics, crisp and colorful.
- Many many "strange" places to explore.
- Many useful objects to be collected and used.
- Has a user friendly journal and map.
- During the game you will taking pictures, which help in mini games.
- New mini games, and with a good level of challenge.
January 26, 2013
Another Nightmare Adventure to Love!
This is the 2nd Nightmare Adventure game, and this one out does the first!
First of all, the graphics and art have improved tremendously. The cut scenes are much improved and are more realistic with great voice overs.
People should be aware that this is not a hidden object game though. If you are looking for HOG's then this isn't the game for you. But there are objects to find to aid in your quest/adventure and tricky puzzles to solve. My only criticism is that the puzzles need more directions or instructions. It isn't always obvious what needs to be done and the puzzle instructions offered are a little vague. But this is a minor issue. There are lots of scenes to explore and a plot with lots of twists and turns. I hope to see more game from the dev in the future.
March 4, 2013
Sequel Trumps 'The Witch's Prison'
I purchased this game after finishing the first in the series, 'The Witch's Prison'.
All I can say is, wow -- what an improvement in graphics, music, characters, everything! This game is definitely not for the faint of heart as it has some pretty ghastly scenes and creatures, but that is exactly what I like about it. 'The Turning Thorn' isn't afraid to push the boundaries in to being disturbing at times (be prepared for lots of death). Perhaps one of the most exciting parts of the game, in my opinion, is the cliffhanger at the very end.
My one complaint about this game is that the storyline doesn't pair that well with the prequel, 'The Witch's Prison' -- it's almost as if the witch becomes less of a witch and more of an alien. It certainly stands strong on its own, though!
February 9, 2013
Thank you, Shawn and Tim!
I have waited for this sequel ever since I finished The Witches Prison, which I totally loved, so my expectiations were very high.
At first I experienced some difficulty getting the game to run as it should, but after some excellent service from CS and a little patience on my part, the fix came on Feb. 1 and after that the game purred like a pussycat. It ran fullscreen on my 24" monitor (running Windows 8), so I don't understand some fishies complaining it not running fullscreen.
The game is a real challenge, something we don't see so much these days in casual gaming. The puzzles were fun, sometimes very hard, but I didn't skip one single puzzle. Hang in there, it can be done!
As for the storyline: absolutely L O V E D it! Very nice twist at the end, although I kinda saw it coming ....
All in all, a very long awaited and very succesful sequel. I'm just a tiny bit surprised it didn't come as a CE, but who's complaining, right?
Thank you so much, Shawn and Tim, for your hard work to bring us this beautiful game. I'm just hoping it will not take as long for part 3. Which should be coming. Hence the twist, right? Please?
February 9, 2013
intelligent and challenging
This was a very intelligent game. A PA with no HO scenes. You are called back to A.R.C.A.N.E,
a secret research facility that is dealing with some very dangerous creatures that it is trying to contain. This is part two and although you don't have to have played part one it will help you to have an idea what's going on right from the start. This is full of a variety of challenging puzzles. Some more so than others. My only critique would be that it needs to have either at least some puzzle instructions or the inclusion of a SG I don't feel that that would take away from the challenge as sometimes I did have to skip a puzzle or two as I could just not fathom what to do.. I must say thought that I found my way around no problem and managed about 3/4's of the puzzles. The game is quite intense and the story unfolds beautifully. This is not a light hearted or fluffy game. It is challenging and equally rewarding when you figure it out. But be prepared to settle in and figure out many puzzles. This game does seem to be polarizing with people either loving it or hating it. I loved it. Can't wait for the next one!
February 4, 2013
Oh the puzzles...
The story & voice acting were both good, although I didn't think it gave enough backstory at the beginning for those who either didn't play the previous game or didn't remember what happened. There were a bunch of memos, notes, and emails scattered throughout the game for you piece it all together.
Now I do prefer puzzles to hidden object scenes, but the puzzles in The Turning Thorn were some of the most obscure I've run across in a long time. I ended up having to skip about half of them because I either couldn't figure out how to solve them or even what the purpose of the puzzle was (bad descriptions).
February 1, 2013
More Like This Please!
Ok, this is primarily a puzzle game. The difficulty level was about right for me....challenging yet they didn't feel impossible. There was subtle humor built into the story also when you clicked incorrectly and there was also a friendly jab at other game adventure game styles.
All in all, this was a SE game that was every bit as good as any of the CE games that I've played. (OK, I don't care about awards and bonus chapters myself)
Give it try!
January 31, 2013
Great Puzzles-Storyline-Creepyness!
Simply stated, this game is interesting.
It's easy to move around, puzzles can be skipped after a few minutes, for those of you who don't want to spend all day on one puzzle. But you dont have to skip them!
Theres also a hint button which will let you know if theres nothing more you can do in a room, which is also a time-saver.
I really liked the comical comments the main character makes when you click on something you don't need.
It's a simple game, in that theres not a lot of moving graphics...its more like a story. Not a lot of dialog which is good too. I hate clicking through dialog.
It kind of reminds me of Monkey Island. Except this has the creepy factor. A few times I jumped.
I think you will really like it if you like adventure games.
January 30, 2013
