Do you like to immerse yourself in fog-shrouded cemeteries, melancholy swamps or slightly sinister carnival grounds? If so, there are plenty of these worlds to enter at Big Fish Games. I’ve been a club member for about two years and have naturally gravitated toward spooky games that could all serve as Halloween scenes. Games are mostly available for PCs, but there are also Mac versions and some games designed for iPhone and iPad.
Collector’s Editions are slightly more expensive ($19.99 or $13.99 if you are a game club member). Regular games are $9.99 and $6.99 for club members. If you fill up your monthly punch card with six purchases or two collector’s edition purchases, you are eligible for a free game that is not a collector’s edition. These editions offer bonus chapters, early access, song samples, concept art, desktop wallpaper and screen savers. Sample versions of the games are available for you to experience the game before purchasing.
I wrote down all the ghostly games I’ve played and was amazed and how many I’ve bought. Each game featured gorgeous graphics and soundtracks. My favorite will always be Return to Ravenhearst. This game’s soundtrack is performed by the Berlin Orchestra and is a separate purchase from the game. So haunting. I played it for this year’s Halloween festivities. People asked where I purchased it. They were surprised to learn that it was from a game.
Part of the fun is just looking at all the wonderful graphics. Each of these games include hidden object scenes in which you are rewarded with an item that will help you later in the investigation/game plot. Others are puzzles. Most are pretty common-sense. If you get stuck, Big Fish Games user help forum will have a game walkthough posted, and some collector’s editions come with an integrated strategy guide.
Warning: These games are addictive. You will find yourself looking for keys in trees and smoking pipes in the clouds. Some games are more challenging than others, but I have discovered an improvement in memory and attention to detail since logging a few hours at the computer — no matter which game I’ve played.
Best of all, if you’re an avid Halloween fan like me, these games offer a chance to enter paranormal situations throughout the year. Check out my links list below (screenshots, strategy guides and a video may be viewed) of favorite games and feel free to leave comments about your favorites and game experiences.
- Azada: In Libro
- Bluebeard’s Castle
- Charlaine Harris: Dying for Daylight
- Curse at Twilight: Thief of Souls
- Dark Dimensions: City of Fog
- Dark Parables: Curse of Briar Rose
- Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince
- Dark Parables: Rise of the Snow Queen
- Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat
- Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder in the Rue Morgue
- Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial
- Deadtime Stories
- Dracula: Love Kills
- Drawn: The Painted Tower
- Drawn: Dark Flight
- Drawn: Trail of Shadows
- Dreamland
- Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
- Echoes of the Past: The Castle of Shadows
- Echoes of the Past: The Citadels of Time
- F.A.C.E.S.
- Fear for Sale: The Mystery of McInroy Manor
- Fear for Sale: Sunnyvale Story
- Gravely Silent: House of Deadlock
- Grim Tales: The Bride
- Grim Tales: The Legacy
- Guardians of Beyond: Witchville
- Halloween: Trick or Treat
- Hallowed Legends: Samhain
- Hallowed Legends: Templar
- Haunted Halls: Green Hills Sanitarium
- Haunted Halls: Fears From Childhood
- Haunted Legends: The Bronze Horseman
- Haunted Legends: The Queen of Spades
- Haunted Manor: Lord of the Mirrors
- Haunted Manor: Queen of Death
- Haunted Past: Realm of Ghosts
- House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets
- Lost Souls: Enchanted Paintings
- Love and Death: Bitten
- Macabre Mysteries: Cure of the Nightingale
- Maestro: Music of Death
- Maestro: Notes of Life
- Margrave: The Curse of the Severed Heart
- Midnight Mysteries: Devil on the Mississippi
- Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy
- Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini
- Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials
- Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove
- Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst
- Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
- Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst
- Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
- Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull
- Mystery of the Ancients: Lockwood Manor
- Mystery Legends: Beauty and the Beast
- Mystery Legends: The Phantom of the Opera
- Mystery Legends: Sleepy Hollow
- Mystery Trackers: Raincliff
- Nightfall Mysteries: Black Heart
- Nightmare Realm
- Otherworld: Spring of Shadows
- Penny Dreadfuls: Sweeney Todd
- Phantasmat
- Potion Bar
- PuppetShow: Mystery of Joyville
- PuppetShow: Souls of the Innocent
- PuppetShow: Lost Town
- Redemption Cemetery: Children’s Plight
- Redemption Cemetery: Curse of the Raven
- Sacra Terra: Angelic Night
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Curse of the Full Moon
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Bane of the Family
- Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles
- Shiver: Vanishing Hitchiker
- Spirits of Mystery: Amber Maiden
- Spirit Seasons: Little Ghost Story
- Strange Cases: The Secrets of Grey Mist Lake
- Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story
- The Agency of Anomalies: Mystic Hospital
- The Keepers: Lost Progeny
- The Magicians Handbook: Cursed Valley
- The Stroke of Midnight
- Time Mysteries: The Ancient Spectres
- Treasure Seekers: Follow the Ghosts
- Twisted Lands: Shadow Town
- Vampireville
- Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White
- Weird Park: Broken Tune
- Witches’ Legacy: The Charleston Curse
- Written Legends: Nightmare at Sea
- Zombie Bowl-O-Rama


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