I have never watched Castle either and it was just a so so game for me.  I only rated it C+ but did like the clean graphics and the puzzles.  Have a couple of the Murder She Wrote but only started one and it was ok.  The Elvis one was another so so game for me but I really enjoyed the actual pictures and the extras, (video, I think?).  That made it memorable.

I'm really frustrated with Nightfall Mysteries: Curse of the Opera right now.  I was enjoying it a lot and was about 2/3 of the way through when it seemed I may have reached a glitch.  I was supposed to receive some anti-freeze that was near a frog that I fed a fly to??? and use it on a frozen area.  There was a hammer in a block of ice and no matter what I used it wouldn't break.  I think, if I got the anti-freeze, I used it on a frozen gate lock.  Well, I decided to uninstall and reinstall and I thought my progress would still be where I was in the game but it started from the beginning, requiring a new profile.    Started playing it again, doing fine and thinking I was nearing the spot from before.  When I went to play last night, it was at the start again, needing a profile.  WTH!!  I'm not feeling like starting over again and will probably send off an email to CS and get a coupon.  There were lots in the forum having save problems but I had been able to go in and out just fine so don't know why all of a sudden it lost my progress. 
Hate to trash it just yet as I was really enjoying it and want to find out what happened.  Anyone else have this kind of problem when they played it?

I started Cursed Fates Headless Horseman PE from Gamehouse.  Sun gave it a good review and I'm liking it, too.  There are horseshoes to collect, you can buy things to decorate your office.  I read that people didn't find all of them, that's because they're anywhere and everywhere.  There might be two in a scene and I've found them in the HOs, too, so that makes the Hos more enjoyable.  It does have one of those strange diaries that tell you things that didn't happen in the game, I like diaries so it gives me a real reason to read it.  I've never actually read (or saw) Sleepy Hollow but we spend our 4th of July in the Catskills, I think that's where Sleepy Hollow is supposed to be, so very fitting.
ETA:  OMG, I laughed out loud.  The barkeep is telling Crane about the Headless Horseman, that he's looking for his head and kills everyone he sees.  Crane asked him how they know about the Headless Horseman if everyone that has seen him has been killed!  LOL.

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Riddles of the Past  -  straight SE

I've just finished playing and here are some notes I just jotted down after finishing ...

Length  -  took me about 2:45 - no skips, just used the hint and map a few times to check where to go to next - only used the transporter a couple of times by accident  ...  so short

HOPs  -  none
  -  the bubble type of HOs only - everything found in the scenes, no zoom-in HOPs
  -  but not FRAGs
  -  you need several things to do/make something and they would show in bubbles around the object
  -  eg. you need secateurs, so you have to find both halves and a screw
  -  sometimes everything was found in the scene, sometimes not (inventory items)
  -  all objects about normal size and found where you'd expect them to be
  -  once you've found everything in the bubbles the game would then fix whatever it was and then a MG

MGs
  -  quite a few, especially near the end
  -  most v. v. v. v. easy peasy
  -  2 or 3 difficult to work out what to do
  -  2 or 3 required a bit of thought
  -  some were original
  -  some were after you'd found the info - eg. the code for a safe and it was put there for you to use
  -  all bar these ones ('cause they were so easy) were fun
  -  some looked like thinky ones - but all you had to do was turn/click/swap until they went green one by one

V/Os  -  yes but sometimes way over the top

Lip Syncing  -  yes but not very well done - very basic and didn't work at all with the speech

Graphics/Animation  -  I liked the graphics but minimal animation

Music  -  good but just a continual loop - but I don't think a very short loop

Map  -  jump - in 3 different sections for the 3 main areas - quite a large town you visit

Hint  -  animated puppy (v. cute!) - takes you to the next active scene - shows you what to do in a scene

Recommendation  -  I had a lot of fun playing this game, and it ends possibly leading into a sequel.  It's very basic with no super duper extras or whizbang gadgets/gameplay but it's a good story and fun.  However, given that it is so basic, short, and very easy, I recommend it but only with a PCC.


 

I know I played Riddles of the Past with Funpass but I don't really remember it, except for the bubbles, which I like.  I know I liked it alright.
Nearing the end of Chapter 2 of 5 in Cursed Fates: Headless Horseman and still liking it.  You play each HO as a list and a picture so the second time through is pretty easy.  Personally, since I don't care for the HO scenes, I prefer half as many scenes that are replayed over twice as many original HO scenes.  The downside is you're  getting  inventory from HO scenes that are  reactivating so you think you're stuck cause you've done everything and found everything, you don't get unstuck until you find that reactivated HO.
 

The following is from Boomzap's June newsletter:

Dear Zappers, 

Exciting news: our Kickstarter campaign for Legends of Fire & Steel has officially started! Please help us reach our funding goal of $50,000 in 30 days. 

Legends of Fire & Steel is an innovative turn-based single and multiplayer fantasy world conquest game that we are currently developing for PC, Mac, and mobile tablets. Set in a world with three warring races - Human, Fae, Revenant - players create armies which are led by heroes. The objective is to capture all of your opponent’s castles and rule the world. 

Visit our Kickstarter page to find out more and back our project! 

Aside from pledging, you can also help out by spreading the news on Facebook, Twitter, and everywhere else. Here are the important links:  

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Since when has Boomzap kickstarted?  Have they done it before?  Are they now doing it because they no longer have funding from BFG? 

Tirama, you seem to know what's going on and I thought you might have an idea.  I just found it interesting.

At least they're also making this game for PC!