Game: Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition
Genre: Puzzle
System: Steam (Windows)
Developers | Publishers: AVI Games | HH-Games
Controller Support: None
Price: US $7.99 | UK £6.99 | € 7,99
Release Date: December 6, 2024
A review code was used, and many thanks to AVI Games.
Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition is a hidden object puzzle game set in a house. You must search the driveway, the living rooms, the bedrooms, and more to find everything you need to complete each puzzle.
What is Playing Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition Like?
Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition plays like most similar games in the genre; you look around and click on items. You can zoom in, ask for hints, and find bonus items to get extra points. There are a total of about 50 levels, plus a handful of bonus levels and some other extra goodies in a separate menu.
Sometimes, you get a list of items to find, but other times, you’ll get a silhouette of the items instead. Either way, you need to find about 12 items twice in each level, and there are also bonus items on the left side of the bottom. There is also an achievement for finding all the dogs and cats in every level.
Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition also has other kinds of one-off puzzles in between to break up the hidden object puzzles a little bit. There are matching puzzles, picture puzzles, and maze puzzles, like the one below this paragraph. These appear every five puzzles or so.
The Artwork of Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition
Based on the Steam page for Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition, there is no AI artwork for this game. Everything is made from what looks like photographs and hidden objects are placed around the rooms for you to pick out. Sometimes, you have to find multiples of a certain kind of object, like three birds or four paper aeroplanes. The scenes are crowded with objects, and many more objects than you need to find are shoved into each one.
This makes all the artwork busy, but not in a bad way. Everything looks nice in Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition, and the houses all look comfy if a bit cluttered.
The Cons of Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition
I had a couple of issues with Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition. The number one thing I didn’t like about it was the sound design. For anyone who doesn’t know already, I share an office space with my husband, so I play all my games with headphones on. I have a feeling the sound effects and music would be slightly less annoying when played at a gentle volume through the speakers of your PC, but with headphones on, it honestly was giving me a headache.
I ended up muting the music after about twenty minutes of gameplay before I went absolutely crazy listening to the grating music and the awful sound effects. Every time the level changed, the music changed, and I hoped it would get better, but it never did. Whatever library they pulled the songs from shouldn’t be used on repeat in puzzle games, in my opinion.
The second issue I had with Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition was that it was boring. I like hidden object puzzle games, and this one looked pretty nice. But it just felt generic. I did about 60 puzzles, all told; some of the non-hidden object puzzles were fine, but the gameplay of the actual hidden object puzzles, the ones I was here for, were just… okay?
It wasn’t bad, and it wasn’t great; the game kind of ran right through me and didn’t leave me unhappy or wanting more. I think a storyline, some more interesting kinds of puzzles interspersed through the hidden object puzzles, better music, or even just having more interesting lists of items to find would make it a whole lot better.
I also think there was a little bit of a translation issue in the game. Some things were named very oddly in a way that sounds like what a non-English speaker might call something. My favorite example was when Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition called a Doily a “Lace Napkin.” There was also one that had me scratching my head when the devs named mini-blinds “shutters.” It makes it less of an object hunt and more of an interpretation game instead.
The final issue is probably the biggest for me: it was pretty laggy. My PC isn’t ancient by any stretch of the imagination, but it ran kind of hot when trying to run Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition. The experience would have been a million times better if it had been smoother.
Conclusion
If you like hidden object puzzle games, you will probably find Sweet Home 3: Look and Find Collector’s Edition fine. I liked it okay, but I do think it could use some improvements. You might also want to load your own music before starting it up.
Final Verdict: I Like it.
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