Riddles Of The Past
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$6.99Skip
On its price record
$4.64Fair
- Length
- 2.1h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 265 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.64 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Riddles Of The Past is a Hidden Object game with detective story and post apocalyptic atmosphere.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 77 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and 9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek ($14.99, scores 57) both outscore it.
The drop-off
53% start to 46% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Another older game that I played years ago. I really enjoyed this all over again... Good story, fun puzzles(actually very easy puzzles or maybe I am getting smarter...lol) The objects to be found are easily found and I got all the achievements for basically playing the game , no extra effort needed; lol I simply HATE the hint pup though. UGH. I covered it with a post it note and that worked pretty well. Cannot...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Riddles of the Past, developed by MysteryTag and Far Mills and published by RunServer, is a hidden-object adventure that takes a familiar formula and dresses it in a mysterious, post-apocalyptic setting. The story centers on Emily Hanson, a young woman who wakes up with no memory of her past. Her only certainty is her name, and from there she sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about her identity and the...
Okay I know HOGs generally have pretty cheesy stories but this is the worst I've encountered so far. It's not even worth spending energy to comment on the story beyond the fact that it's extremely juvenile and cringe-worthy. This isn't even really a HOG, it's more like a point-and-click adventure game, but even then, it's extremely simple to solve the puzzles. The mini games are either obnoxiously tedious or...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Riddles Of The Past scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/500870/riddles-of-the-pastReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.