I finally sat down and finished Hidden Expedition: Smithsonian Hope Diamond Collector's Edition.

Really good game and I'm looking forward to the next one.  Going to play Asian Riddles 2 next.

I've played 2 rooms worth of Asian Riddles 2 and am halfway through the 3 room.  Unless I'm not looking in the right place, the devs appear to have removed achievements from this series.

sunshinej wrote:

Well, I finished Shtriga: Summer Camp.  Stusue, you were so right, I just wanted to keep playing it non stop because I liked it so much even though I was in the middle of The Gold Bug and I see what you mean about hitting the hint button at a junction.  Most times all I wanted is which direction do I go to help me along. 

stusue...Thanks for listing the upcoming games at GameHouse.  I see the first one on the list is out already.  I must wait to play Fall of the New Age until I'm finished with the Dark Tales series, but after that I think I would like to play that one next.  Too bad about Secret Bunker USSR not coming out soon.

sunshinej, I so want to finish Shtriga but I don't know if I'll manage to finish it until my DB, DSIL and DN leave Friday of next week.  They're arriving this Friday and my sis and I are busy cleaning and getting their beds ready, etc, so no time to play.    At least it's stopped snowing ... well, just a few flakes still around ... so at least we haven't had to shovel snow since the day before yesterday.    I have well over 100 sq metres to shovel. 

I used the 50% discount code to get Fall of the New Age Platinum Edition for the price of an SE from GameHouse this morning - BFG only has the SE - and 3 punches.  It has all the usual extras, as well as an SG, and it has 12 extra locations (40 in the SE, 52 in the PE).  From the reviews I read, the SE apparently ends really abruptly and unsatisfactorily and some people said that they really needed a walkthrough, and there isn't one.  I also got Mystika for 59 cents (using the 50% discount code), which meant that with those 2 games and the 2 free punches, I got a PCC.  So, for $7.58 I got Fall of the New Age PE, Mystika and another PCC! 
 

Way to go Stusue  Glad you didn't have to wait to finish.  I too, really liked this game and it surprised me as I wasn't expecting much and then I couldn't stop playing.  I thought the atmosphere was great and it was longer than I thought it would be and like you said the ending was quick and a tad disappointing, but they did leave themselves open for a sequel.  The devs for this game is Game Cartel and I looked and couldn't find anything else by them, so maybe a first effort.  If so, it was a really super good first effort.

I finished Dark Tales: EAP's The Gold Bug.  That makes 12 games finished for the month of January.  I think it just might be my most prolific month yet.  Nothing like freezing cold temps and some snow to keep one indoors.

I like The Gold Bug even though it was a little glitchy.  The Game kicked me out once and froze twice where I had to CAD out of it.  The story was really good and I liked my helper a newfoundland.  A dog I would never have in real life since they are so hugh, but he made such a cute sidekick sniffing out clues.  The puzzles were very nice, more doable than thinky and the artwork was gorgeous, especially that sunset.  Much more pastel looking than the previous games.  I had the SE version and the ending was just perfect that I didn't feel a loss that I didn't get the CE version.
 

I've finished the first 5 rooms of Asian Riddles 2.