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hidden-object game en · NOUN
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A genre of puzzle video game in which the player must find specific items hidden within a scene.
Though it dresses itself in a fairly intriguing adventure tale, Chronicles of Vampires is a hidden-object game with interspersed minigames.
2012 March 14, Patrick C., “Chronicles of Vampires: Origins”, in Nintendo Power, number 276, page 23:We gaze out at the scrapyard, eyes darting and search like it's the highest-stakes hidden-object game of all time—and at last, June points—"THERE!"
2017, Max Brailler, The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King, page 140:Art of Murder is one of those lesser-known point-and-click franchises that's lost enough momentum over time to eventually become a hidden object game.
2022 September 14, Matthew Elliott, “They're Back: Old Games Revisited”, in PC PowerPlay, number 294, page 95:
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