Hidden Objects rule the world! Too many of them was released during the last year, and we can even guess how much are under development right now. Hidden objects game is like a gold fish for many developers. They make lots of money. Therefore some hidden object games are impressively unprofessional. They can be beautiful and even have some storyline. But when you play such a game, you have a feeling that it doesn’t have a “soul”. Or, in other words, they did it just to make some quick money.

That is why its hard for me to review this game. When I played it, I had this feeling. There are small amount of objects on every level and they seems to be placed very quickly. The special effects are too cheap. A storyline seems to be separated from the levels… However, it has some interesting features. And I would like to share with you about them.

The game itself is very simple. First, they tells you a story about a prince (I just skipped it). Then they gives you a map with many rectangles joined by lines. And there are 3 points in each rectangle which means 3 levels in the same room.

There are many different kinds of gameplay for the levels. In most of them you have to find objects from the list, spot differences between two pictures, place pieces inside a mosaic, find some number of similar objects, find some number of pair objects and solve simple logical puzzles like in Azada. But this list is not complete and sometimes you are asked to do something really extraordinary for the hidden object games.

In each room, you have to play three different kinds of gameplay.

Sometimes, when you passed a few rooms, the game show you another chapter of a storyline. Its just a picture with some text below. So I just skipped it.

The Sultan’s Labyrinth is not as good game as Azada or Dream Chronicles. But it fulfilled one of my dreams! See, I am not a native English speaker. And when I play hidden objects, I have to use a dictionary to translate some object names into Ukrainian. And this game have no levels where obects are listed by their names!

Yes, they are using contours everytime you need to find objects from the list. So you just need to recognize the object by it’s contour instead of browsing a number of images at Google trying to find out how the object might looks like. If you are not a native English speaker like me, don’t miss this game!

There is just one thing in the game that have really confused me. I thought that a “?” button on bottom-right is a hint. But I was wrong. When you need a help finding object, you have to click on a magic lamp that usually displayed at the top right corner.

I believe that a game that based on the ancient arabian theme can be more beautiful. The ancient arabians had an excellent taste, and they made the most beautiful clothes, carpets and buildings in ancient world. Unfortunately, this game doesn’t express this beauty. And it doesn’t have an addictive storyline that you may want to follow. So I give it 4 stars of 5. Just because of some innovative ideas, and - well, it is still interesting to play

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