The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure (Windows)

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Description

The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure is a 3rd-person point-and-click adventure game from Jonathan Boakes, creator of the Dark Fall games.

The player assumes the role of Nigel Danvers who escapes by train to an eerie seaside town, located on England west-coast, Saxton. Nigel hopes this way he can elude his employers, the Hadden Corporation. In the town, he will be soon in the town's affairs, slowly discovering forgotten secrets of the dead. As a ghost hunting adventure, the player has many tools at his disposal, such as an EMF meter (Electromagnetic Fluctuations), EVP meter (Electronic Voice Phenomena), a night-vision camcorder, a digital camcorder and more.

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Alternate Titles

• "The Lost Crown: Призраки из прошлого" -- Russian spelling
• "The Lost Crown: Warning to the Curious" -- Working title

Part of the Following Group

• Game Engine: Wintermute

User Reviews

Atrociously overrated

Czar Husk Qi (39)

Critic Reviews

Quandary	Mar, 2008		90
Game Chronicles	Jun 16, 2008	8.9 out of 10	89
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Jul 20, 2008	82 out of 100	82
UHS (Universal Hint System)	Oct 27, 2008		70
IGN	Mar 24, 2008	7 out of 10	70
PC Games (Germany)	Jul 19, 2009	69 out of 100	69
Game Over Online	Mar 17, 2008	67 out of 100	67
GameStar (Germany)	Jun, 2009	66 out of 100	66
Gamer.nl	Sep 22, 2008	6 out of 10	60
Thunderbolt Games	Nov 15, 2008	3 out of 10	30

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Related Web Sites

• The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure (official website)
• The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure (Official North American website)
• The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure (Official United Kingdom website)
• The Lost Crown Walkthrough (by MaGtRo and posted on Gameboomers.com)
• Zarf's Mini-Review (A mini-review of The Lost Crown by Andrew Plotkin (May, 2008).)