Join our heroines Lily and Madison as they follow a series of clues about a recent string of chilling murders. Only with your help, will they be able to solve these murders, catch the perpetrator and bring him to justice. Journey through this thrilling story-driven game and gather all the clues.
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Reviews at a Glance
Secret of the Pendulum
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Customer Reviews
Secret of the Pendulum is rated
out of
5 by
22.
Rated 4 out of
5
by
ninja226 from
Not so bad old school HOS game
The negative reviews for this game are not deserved.
True, it is an old school game. There are huge arrows telling you to drag left, right, down, or up.
Sparkles pop up when there is a junk pile HOS, which is needed, as there is no BF walkthrough.
A jigsaw puzzle icon pops up when you hover over a mini puzzle game, which are mostly easy to solve.
There are voiceovers along with subtitles.
Not much movie motion animation, and the characters look like comic book characters, but the visuals are crisp, contemporary, and well done.
The storyline involves a pendulum (lower right corner, below Hint button) which you occasionally use to travel through time (night vs day) and space.
There is no Map button to transport to various scenes, but Hint button suffices (and your trusty memory).
All in all, a decent, straightforward HOS mystery game with a happy ending.
Give it a try, you might be surprised and find you like it.
Date published: 2017-01-07
Rated 4 out of
5
by
Heather_G from
Best for classic adventure game fans.
Yes, it feels a little dated and is probably worth only three stars, but I felt it needed a tiny ratings boost. This plays like an adventure game with a few hidden object scenes thrown in. Not a lot of hand-holding here, which is fine by me.
Pros:
The story was pretty good and kept my interest.
The voice-overs were excellent.
Background sounds fit each scene which added realism.
I liked the sliding scenes.
Fairly long game.
It had some interesting puzzles with a nice degree of challenge (not impossible, but not a cakewalk).
Cons:
I often had to click an arrow twice before it registered.
I had one puzzle vanish so there was no way to finish it without skipping.
There was one thread left unraveled in the story (a character that was never explained).
The hidden object scenes were ordinary and some items were very hard to pick out.
Overall, I think this is a perfectly good game for those who enjoy old-school adventure type games.
I think the poor reviews are largely by fans of the more modern hidden object games that make up the largest share of games here at Big Fish.
If you want to try something a little different, or miss the older adventures, do give this one at least a demo.
Date published: 2016-12-30
Rated 4 out of
5
by
pennmom36 from
At First I Hated This Game.....
When I began playing this retro Click and Drag game, I thought to myself, "self, this is another horrible HdO game with poor graphics" But that quickly changed once I discovered how challenging the game actually was. You play the part of Madison, the sister of the Natural History museum's curator, Dr. Lily Avery who was murdered after discovering a pendant that allows you to travel back in time. You must switch back and forth in time as you are tasked with finding items that will allow you to reach your sister Lily to warn her of the upcoming danger she faces.
Yes, the graphics aren't very good, the Hidden Object scenes are very simple, and the mini games are easy too, but I found myself challenged with what to do next or where to find items I needed, and I really liked the challenge. All of the scenes can be zoomed into, as well as drug around so that you can find arrows leading to a different scene. You will be given blueprints of the items to find in order to progress, and then you need to figure out where to use the items.
I know most gamers will hate this old style game, but you might change your mind if you ignore the simplistic graphics and get into the storyline and the challenge it presents, enjoy!
Date published: 2015-12-15
Rated 4 out of
5
by
OzGuy from
An Enjoyable Enough Game ...
Graphics, Sound & Story OK ...
Not A Bad Game, With Some Nice Ideas & Concepts ...
Worth A Voucher ...
Date published: 2015-12-24
Rated 4 out of
5
by
grapeleaves from
It's Alright.!!!
No one makes really good SE. My free games just sit around for months. My 6.99 membership sits around for a long time It was nice for todays SE. It could be better and longer I will use my free game and buy. Don't you to members why they don't take the time for making really good SE for us. Let all give feedback to Big Fish if you agree,
Date published: 2015-12-15
Rated 3 out of
5
by
janmo8225 from
NOT THAT GOOD
It was to confusing. Hints tell you what to do but not where to get item all the time.
Date published: 2015-12-15
Rated 2 out of
5
by
dancemom1 from
Eye strain...
Hi all! Well, I gave this one a shot, even though there were those who said it was a "bad" game. Again, I review on the game play and not the story line, as others do a much better job of that than I can. I found this game to be very old school in graphics, which are somewhat blurry, making it difficult to distinguish certain items, and animation, which is quite stiff when you do see it. You even have a click penalty that kicks in quite quickly. Game play wasn't bad. Voice overs were pretty good, but our main character does talk to herself a lot. That's okay, I do that sometimes too. Music does get quite annoying very quickly, so I turn it down to very light background noise. There are some sound FX, but not many. The most annoying sound is the one you year when you find something. You cannot lock the inventory bar in place either, and have to manually click on it to raise it up. You do have to click, hold and drag items from the inventory in order to use them. As I said, an old school game.
HOPs are straight forward lists with no interaction at all. The scenes are pretty clear and clean, but some items are extremely small, e.g. hummingbird. Wow, almost needed a magnifying glass to see that one. Puzzles were painfully simple and take no brain power at all. Hint system is helpful, but takes quite some time to fill and there is no custom mode in this one either.
This was not a "bad" game, if you like simple, no brainer games, which I sometimes do. The story was a little different and you did have time travel. The only thing I really didn't care for was the constant time travel for one item. I stopped counting after 6 jumps in the alley. If you jump to complete a task, okay, but not back and forth for one item, back to use it, back again to get something else, etc. You get the picture. This game may appeal to a beginner, or someone who just wants to rest their brain a bit. I will recommend it for them, but not for me. No buy today.
As always, try it for yourself and see what you think. We all have different tastes in games and you may find this one to be exactly what you are looking for today. Thanks for the reviews.
Date published: 2015-12-15
Rated 2 out of
5
by
mrm2006 from
Just NOT My Cup of Tea.
No beginning cut scene to get a bearing on what the game is about, who your character is, etc.
Graphics are ok. I turned off the music and 'sounds' but couldn't turn off the voiceovers. Your character is in a constant state of "OMG!!!"
Absolutely NO different modes of difficulty.
No diary/journal. No map (transportable or otherwise). The hint button takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r and a d-a-y to recharge. At one point, it is noted during the tutorial (you can't turn off) to try the hint button and it would be a 'free hint'. Hmmmmm. The 'hint' button DOES NOT transport you either.
The Inventory button does NOT stay locked into position. So, you're constantly clicking on it to see what's what. There are pictures of what you have to find in the inventory which drove me a bit nuts to begin with ..... if it's in my Inventory it's something I found/earned/whatever and not a picture of something.
Because of all these things, and many more, this will NOT be a purchase for me. I really can't even find anything at all that I enjoyed about it but that's me.
Date published: 2015-12-15
Rated 2 out of
5
by
jmidge0217 from
Tedious & Exhausting
Old school worst possible sense.
I found the navigation so tedious and exhausting that I gave up in frustration after about 15 minutes of the demo.
Unfortunate as I found the storyline had possibilities.
Date published: 2015-12-16
Rated 2 out of
5
by
SMQMC from
Ugh!
If you can get past the dragggging cursor, you can attempt to play the game. I didn't even realize it was like the 360 games in that there were areas off-screen that had other arrows to follow. Once I found out, I thought it would be better.....NOT. Very poor game in my opinion. One that could have been lots better, but it was SO slow, tedious, confusing and definitely not what games should be........fun. I deleted it and maybe shouldn't even give it 2 stars, only 1, but I'm in a Christmas spirit mood.
Have a Merry Christmas fishies!
Date published: 2015-12-23