Game: Secrets of the Dark: Mystery of the Ancestral Estate

Spooky mansions have long been the bailiwick of mystery writers, but for a while now, hidden object games have been horning in on their territory. Secrets of the Dark: Mystery of the Ancestral Estate is set inthe villa of a family of inventors who, aside from inventing bizarre contraptions, spend their time trying to stop one of their psycho siblings from taking over the world. Although the game stumbles at both beginning and end, in between it presents some unusual and fascinating gameplay.