If you're an ancient history or archaeology buff, The Pini Society: The Remarkable Truth will be right up your alley. Based on the exploits of the real-life Pini Society, a secret organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of valuable historical artifacts, the game lets players follow along on some of the society's most important missions, learning valuable information along the way.The Remarkable Truth does a great job of evoking an older time - to be precise, the nineteenth century, when the Pini Society was founded and did much of its most important work - with graphics depicting dog-eared maps, hand-drawn journal entries and diagrams, and vintage exploration equipment like old binoculars.
The Pini Society is a secret organization dedicated to finding and protecting mankind's sacred treasures. While this sounds like an intriguing plot point for any casual game, the difference in the case of The Pini Society: The Remarkable Truth is that the Pini Society actually exists in real life. How cool is that?The Pini Society was founded by James Arthur Pini in 1854, during a time when many of the world's ancient archaeological relics were being sold or desecrated by grave robbers and treasure seekers. The society was recently re-founded in 2006 by Pini's great-great-granddaughter Rebecca Jayne in the hopes that members of the public could carry on the mission of helping to preserve the cultural wonders of the world.