Game: Howlville: The Dark Past

On first glance, Howlville: The Dark Secret is perfectly packaged to imitate its long line of Collector's Edition ancestors who've thrilled audiences with their haunted houses, car crashes, and mysterious towns—or at least bombarded them into a numb acceptance of commercial standards. But from the title screen forward, Howlville distinguishes itself from the gloomy flock with a unique twist on the tried-and-true gameplay of hidden-object games. Instead of puzzles and hidden objects existing as separate entities; they've nested puzzles and tons of interaction into each hidden-object scenes, creating a very different pace and strategy for familiar mechanics.