Exciting iPhone adventure game: The Stone of Destiny

Kevin 2009-01-23 |

You have a mystery to unfold, an adventure to undertake and rescue someone who had been captured. The Stone of Destiny from Artur Ostapenko is the game you need to play to experience the touch of action, adventure, mystery and puzzle. The developer has slashed the price of the game from $9.99 to $0.99. The game revolves around a detective plot something like that of searching for the Holy Grail. You have a map, a book and objects that would help you solve riddles and find the one whom you’re searching

The game

Your uncle disappears mysteriously from the library. To find him, you have to travel to the most remote places on earth and find artifacts. The artifacts would give you the clues to reach the stone of destiny, which unravels the whole mystery.

There are 27 different levels featuring strange locations, such as libraries in an old house, wrecked ship, lost altars, mystical temples, etc. In each of these places, you need to find out the objects displayed or listed on the screen. When you’ve identified the images, you write down a magical rune in your book, which would help unfold the mystery. The map takes you to another strange place, where you are ready to start identifying objects.

Not only that, you are also required to crack puzzles to make mysterious doors and gates to open so that you can go on to the next location.

Who should play?

The Stone of Destiny is suitable for people who love riddles and puzzles. The game brings the atmosphere of Indiana Jones’ adventures to the iPhone.

Difficulty level

If you don’t use the hints and also not tap randomly on the screen, identifying all the listed or displayed objects is not that easy. The first level itself can take some precious minutes. To really enjoy the game, you need to be patient and zoom in and zoom out the screen to identify the object in a fair way.

By tapping randomly on the iPhone screen, I managed finding eighty percent of the hidden objects. To identify the rest, I used up the hints. Thus the game can either be very easy and boring or very difficult and engaging depending on the way you play.

The narrative in the game gives players the feel of reading comic adventures; the images give antique touch and identifying the objects tests your attentiveness. The game is all fun; play it fair if you want the fun and excitement to last longer.

See the complete list of iPhone adventure games here.