Halloween Chronicles: Monsters

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A Halloween homecoming, and monsters in your hometown.

Platforms: iPhone, Android
Price: Free to play
Rated: 4.7/5 from 1,298 ratings on the App Store; 4.2/5 from 1.47K reviews on Google Play (4.1/5 from 8.94K for the free-to-play edition)
Players: 1
Made by: Domini Games (Do Games Limited)
Released: 2019

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What frightens It is spooky rather than frightening: on Halloween night a mummy, a vampire, a flaming skeleton and other cartoon-bright monsters invade your hometown, and you search busy Halloween scenes for hidden objects and solve puzzles to stop them; the App Store rates it 9+ for infrequent, mild horror themes.
Content: mild cartoon violence.

Halloween Chronicles: Monsters is a hidden-object adventure for iPhone, iPad and Android by Domini Games. You come home to spend Halloween with your father, and monsters invade the town; you search scenes, solve puzzles and uncover a family secret to stop them. It is a spooky, family-friendly Halloween game, not a frightening one.

About Halloween Chronicles: Monsters

Halloween Chronicles: Monsters is the mobile edition of Halloween Chronicles: Monsters Among Us, the first game in Domini Games' Halloween Chronicles series of hidden-object adventures. It came to the App Store in June 2019 and is also on Google Play, in a version with a free trial and an in-app purchase for the full game and in a separate free-to-play edition.

It is Halloween, and your father has invited you back to your hometown to celebrate, trick-or-treat and spend time together. Then eerie creatures invade the house and the town of Riverstown. To stop them you dig into your family's secret history. A bonus chapter sends you after two ghost siblings who stole your family's magic camera.

Play is classic hidden-object adventure: tap to explore drawn scenes, find lists of items hidden in cluttered Halloween rooms, use what you collect to move on and solve puzzles and mini-games. A strategy guide is built in for when you are stuck, and there are photos, interviews and film rolls to collect.

The monsters are mummies, vampires, skeletons and fish-men drawn in saturated cartoon colours, and the App Store rates it 9+ for infrequent, mild horror and fantasy violence. It is a seasonal game for players who like hidden-object puzzles, not a horror game.

How to play Halloween Chronicles: Monsters

Download it from the App Store or Google Play and play the free part; buy the full game in the app, or install the free-to-play edition on Android.
Tap around each scene to explore and pick up items.
In hidden-object scenes, find every item on the list hidden in the picture.
Use the items you collect on the world to open the way forward.
Solve the puzzles and mini-games, and open the strategy guide if you get stuck.

Screenshots

A hidden-object scene: a cake with an eyeball, ghost cupcakes, pumpkins and an old camera under a magnifying glass

A skeleton with glowing eyes hurls fireballs at a startled man in a suit

Two scenes side by side: a candlelit room with skeletons at a table, and a blue fish-man reaching out in front of a horror shop

Tips

Use the hint button in hidden-object scenes rather than tapping at random.
The built-in strategy guide shows every step if you lose your way.
Look out for the collectible photos, interviews and film rolls as you go.

Questions

Is Halloween Chronicles: Monsters scary?

Only mildly. It is a bright, cartoon-style hidden-object game rated 9+ on the App Store for infrequent, mild horror themes.

Is Halloween Chronicles: Monsters free?

The App Store and Google Play versions are free to try, with the full game unlocked by an in-app purchase. On Android there is also a free-to-play edition.

Is there a sequel?

Yes. Halloween Chronicles 2: Masks, also by Domini Games, follows on with cursed masks made by the Boogeyman.

Who made Halloween Chronicles?

Domini Games, now Do Games Limited.