The Agency of Anomalies: The Last Performance

This generally good series of casual point-and-click adventures lost its way with this entry. In many ways it's similar to the first two entries, but the story is thin to the point of being incomprehensible. The difficulty balance is also way off: there are way too many puzzle mini-games, and some of them are extremely difficult. It feels more like a puzzle game than a hidden-object game.

While still overall an OK game, I'm giving this game a thumbs down due to the inclusion of frustrating "seltzer water" puzzles. These depend on minute mouse movements that are impossible to complete reliably. Such "action" puzzles feel out of place in this genre, but more importantly these specific sequences are essentially broken, and can be completed only by repetitive tries. It was poor judgment and bad quality assurance to include them. And there are a lot of them.

This game is the third in a series of four games: Mystic Hospital, Cinderstone Orphenage, The Last Performance, and Mind Invasion. The fourth game is not currently on Steam.