Forgotten Places: Lost Circus

An annoying and buggy hidden-object game. It is not a point-and-click adventure, just puzzle after puzzle.

The hidden-object scenes involve frustrating pixel hunting, at least in expert mode. The puzzles are inconsistent in quality, with some being trivial casual games while others are much more difficult.

The story is thin and dumb. There is an obvious intent to clash a dark reality with childlike flashbacks, but the dark is not really dark and the flashbacks are plain infantile. The story progression makes no sense.

Bugs galore: The game will only save if you exit from the main menu. In one hidden-object scene the object was not really there, it was only by clicking around like a madman did I happen to hit the invisible object. The achievements are broken: though completing the game in expert mode, I did not get the achievement for it.