Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

In the face of the looming magical cataclysm, Ester Ambrose has to fight to save her future once again!

Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma is a hidden object, adventure and casual game developed and published by Artifex Mundi.
Released on September 11th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 438 reviews of which 366 were positive and 72 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma into these genres:

Hidden Object Adventure Casual Female Protagonist Point & Click Time Travel Puzzle Singleplayer Mystery Fantasy Horror Family Friendly Story Rich Indie 2D Great Soundtrack Atmospheric Cartoony

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
Processor: 1.5 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB VRAM
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

Processor: 1.5 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB VRAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (32/64bit)
Processor: 1.5 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB VRAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Great time killer good story line and even a switch up that increases the challenge a bit partway through.

Sept. 2024

Pretty easy HO game that has a nice time travel mechanic driving the story and makes you saving the world again. Well, that all goes for the normal difficulty as you get a hint anytime in which scene and time you have an open task. Glad there was no achievement for the pro mode...

Aug. 2024

It's fine, I'd give it a 68%. The end of the main story becomes a chain of HOG puzzles. And some are reused exactly in the bonus chapter. Inventory won't lock to an open position, the controls are reversed compared to any HOG I've played (eg hint is on the left not right), and the alternate mini game to doing an HOG is horrible. It's worse than just waiting out the hint recharge. Other alternate games are usually matching ones, this one is very very annoying and unwinnable at points. Giving it a weak recommend because I'm an easy grader.

July 2024

One of the easier HOG games, not too challenging making you search for a walkthrough.

April 2024

<Game native resolution: 1366x768, but artwork is 4:3 aspect ratio. Avoid playing widescreen, or artwork will be stretched.> "Merciful" is how I described the subtitle of Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/Eincrou/recommended/313650/]in my review of Time Mysteries 2: The Ancient Spectres. The first two games were bad and this series needed to be put to pasture! I'll also say that mercy has been granted to me in another form: Time Mysteries 3 is good! Actually, it's just fine. It's nothing special at all. But coming after two awful games, an average game feels special within the tiny universe of the Time Mysteries franchise. I think it has something to do with this series changing hands from Big Fish Games to Artifex Mundi between TM2 and TM3. Time Mysteries 3 moves away from the haphazard design of the first two games and more towards the polished design I've come to expect from games published by Artifex Mundi. Time Mysteries 3 still has backtracking and completed hidden object scenes suddenly becoming active again, but this is significantly reduced from Time Mysteries 2. The artwork is cleaner and more colorful. The horrific color "in"-correction filters have been eliminated. It's all still 4:3 resolution, though. If you play this, and you should, don't play this widescreen. The bonus adventure revisits some locations from Time Mysteries 2. I just played it, so they're fresh in my memory and I immediately noticed how much better they look in Time Mysteries 3. The art has been reworked to add more detail and contrast. Even though they reuse the same hidden object scenes from Time Mysteries 2, they're smoother because objects are bit easier to distinguish. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=673170820 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3220280904 Time Mysteries 2 was all about defeating the evil Viviana, whom had been sealed in a crystal for 1,000 years. The player character, Esther Ambrose, foolishly broke the seals and freed the evil woman - eventually leading to the destruction of mankind in the future. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3220390185 Time Mysteries 3 is about undoing all of that, in more ways than one. First was the absurdity of Esther doing something so terrible, but never being held responsible for it. That was already swept under the rug in Time Mysteries 2, but it gets double-swept in Time Mysteries 3: Viviana wasn't actually evil! Her apparent villainy wasn't her fault! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3220388482 As soon as I saw that TM3 was going down this route, I frickin' knew what it was going to be. It's a cliche of post-modern storytelling that female villains aren't actually evil. Male characters can be genuinely evil, though. How much do you wanna bet it turns out Viviana was being forced to do evil by a man? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3220392226 A nice aspect of Time Mysteries 3 is that it gives us access to the Moscow module that was visible in Time Mysteries 2, but was never used. Esther goes to Moscow in the year 1812, and if you know anything about anything, you know why that is a very significant time and place. I'm not as well-versed on classical music as I'd like to be, but so far my favorite classical piece is The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E-flat major, op. 49 by Tchaikovsky. That work is obviously public domain, so it would have been great to have that as the music for Moscow in 1812. Instead, a militarized version of the Time Mysteries main theme plays, which is also kind of cool. A conclusive and satisfying ending to the Time Mysteries series is presented, though there are some more twists I haven't mentioned here. I did mention the bonus chapter, and it's good. I think it takes place between Time Mysteries 1 and 2. At the end of it all, Time Mysteries is the worse hidden object adventure game series I've played. Two terrible games and one average game. I've noticed this is actually the last unplayed HOAG in my Steam library. I'll have to buy some more ASAP!

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14.79€

7.8

366

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Developer

Artifex Mundi

Publisher

Artifex Mundi

Release 11 Sep 2014

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