Hidden Objects: Superthief

Mrs. Smith steals to order, and in Hidden Objects: Superthief your part is finding the things her clients have paid for. She works a city of mansions, museums and artists' ateliers, places stocked with mysterious relics and rare artefacts that somebody, somewhere, wants taken.

Each scene hides the objects for the current job. Spot one, tap it and it goes in the bag. Speed matters, since quicker finds are worth more points, and your standing as a thief is tracked as a reputation measured in stars. Beyond the main thefts there are side jobs to take on and special equipment to collect along the way. The detail that sets it apart from fixed-picture games is that the developer says the scenes reshuffle their layout and difficulty every time you play, and also adjust to how much mastery you have built up.

Open a scene and look for the objects the job asks for. When you find one, tap it to collect it. The faster you collect the required objects, the bigger your score for the scene. If one object will not show itself, call up a hint. Your progress as a thief is counted in stars, which make up Mrs. Smith's reputation.

Score is tied to speed, so a hint can be the cheaper option when a single stubborn object is eating the clock. Since layouts change from one visit to the next, there is little point memorising where an item sat last time. Treat every return to a location as a fresh search.

A hidden object game wrapped in a light heist story, with side jobs and equipment to collect. It runs in a 4:3 landscape frame (800 by 600). The instructions describe tapping objects to collect them, and layouts change on each play.

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