

Some special "tool" items are found intact, and you’ll use these to solve puzzles, such as using a lockpick to gain access to a cupboard. Here you’ll interact with famous historical figures themselves to help them find historically significant items (like Einstein’s missing E=MC2 equation) that fall into broad categories like Art, Music and Invention. In each of the game’s 10 chapters you’ll visit three different historically significant locations, such as Shakespeare’s theatre in Renaissance-era England, ancient China in Confucious’s time, and the famous Abbey Road recording studio in the 1960s.

Flux Family Secrets: The Ripple Effect is the latest casual title to combine hidden object and adventure gameplay, and is certainly fun while it lasts.īoth the time-travelling story and the gameplay, which involves searching scenes for pieces of objects to fit together, then putting the whole objects back into the scenes where they belong, are extremely similar to Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox. Jesse grew up not knowing much about her past, so she’s excited to receive a letter from the Flux Family promising answers if she’ll help them retrieve various historical artifacts by travelling through time with the help of a special device.
