Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove (Collector's Edition) screenshots

The game starts with a short sequence of storyboards showing that Dire Grove is in trouble

The game's title

The game's menu

This is the collector's edition and it has an integrated strategy guide/walkthrough

The Bonus Items menu

There are fifteen wallpapers available

There are in-game achievements to be collected

The Puzzle Collection: Throughout the game there are over eighty picture pieces to be collected. These can then be assembled to unlock the game's screensavers

Unlocking a screensaver by completing a jigsaw. This one is still a few pieces short

The Bonus Item menu calls this "The Dire Grove Collection". At each major location there is a miniature building hidden somewhere and this is where they end up

The game has five levels of difficulty

The first Hidden Object Puzzle. Items in blue need to be worked on, the knife needs to be closed; the cassette needs to be ejected etc. The items in orange need to be assembled

The game consists of a series of separate investigations. Each investigation consists of five pieces of proof.

There is an in-game map and it can be used to fast travel to a location. Later in the game there will be a second screen

There are lots of puzzles. The INFO button explains them, the Strategy Guide shows exactly ow to complete them and if all that fails the SKPI button will eventually charge up

The game has a few screens like this where there are several puzzles which must be solved sequentially

A variation on the hidden object puzzle, this is a sort of hidden object 'Concentration' game. Twelve items (six pairs) are hidden and the player has to find them and pair them off

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove (Collector's Edition)

Windows screenshots