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Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun

Become a young journalist and try to find out what caused a sudden solar eclipse in Transylvania and why people are missing. A hidden-object game with an intense story and beautiful, atmospheric graphics…

63 5 October 2010

Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun is an adventure developed by City Interactive, released 5 October 2010 on Nintendo DS.

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What Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun is

Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun is an adventure game developed by City Interactive and released in 2010. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Become a young journalist and try to find out what caused a sudden solar eclipse in Transylvania and why people are missing. A hidden-object game with an intense story and beautiful, atmospheric graphics. Unravel the dark mysteries of Transylvania together with Emily Davis, the news reporter. Let yourself be drawn into an incredible sequence of events. Investigate an inexplicable, long-lasting solar eclipse and the equally mysterious disappearance of the scientist researching it. Help Emily find hundreds of ingeniously hidden clues that bring you closer to unraveling the mystery amongst them, a compendium of lore about vampires and Count Dracula. Brace yourself for many hours of intriguing…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, horror, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun launched on 5 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach and Super Meat Boy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Super Meat Boy.

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When did Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun come out?
Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun was released on 5 October 2010 for Nintendo DS.

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