Game Description:
WINNER! #1 Hidden Object Game of 2007 Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own demise at midnight this very day. She has asked for your help in investigating each quirky carnival worker to determine their whereabouts at midnight. Your investigation will include a multitude of fascinating personalities, from Art the Carny to Lucy the Bearded Beauty, while exploring the magical world of Fate`s Carnival. Each suspect has a motive, but only a Master Detective can discover the secrets hidden within Madame Fate`s crystal ball.
Game size: 104.8 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

After spending Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst holed up in a mansion, it's nice to be back investigating suspects in Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate, the fourth game in the series. Madame Fate, the fortune teller at the local carnival, is convinced that she'll die at the stroke of midnight, and it's up to you to find her would-be killer before it's too late.

Each of the 15 carnival employees has a motive for wanting Madame Fate dead: Lucy, the bearded lady, is jealous of her success, Larry the magician is afraid she'll cost him his job, and the Mermaid is afraid Madame Fate will tell her husband about the affair she's having with the Strong Man. The fact that the crime you're investigating hasn't actually happened yet puts a quirky twist on the detective work, but the gameplay itself is similar to past Mystery Case Files games.

You'll investigate each person by searching the carnival grounds for clues. Like a typical hidden object game, each location is littered with a strange collection of objects, and you have to search through the clutter to find a specific list of items before time runs out. Once you've found all the clues, you'll bring them back to Madame Fate so that she can use her crystal ball to reveal what the person's fate will be when midnight rolls around - thus eliminating them from the list of suspects. Before the crystal ball reveals what it knows, however, you'll have to solve a fiendish puzzle similar to the locked door puzzles in Ravenhearst.
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Review from: Meryl's Notes Blog

Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst has the distinction of the first hidden object game I’ve ever reviewed. I had no basis for comparison, so little did I know I reviewed one of the best games of its genre. Since then, I’ve also checked out Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate surpasses its four predecessors and the Mystery Case Files (MCF) series continues to push the genre to new levels.

In this one, Madame Fate, the fortune teller, believes someone is going to kill her at midnight and she asks for your help. It’s not that her fortune telling abilities don’t work, but rather she needs you to find hidden items or clues from the 15 carnival employees. These items help Madame Fate use her crystal ball to see each person’s fate at midnight.

As she reveals the fate of each carnival worker, it also helps remove that person as a suspect in her possible death. But before she can do that, you go to work in solving a “crystal ball puzzle” with no direction or clues. I adore these puzzles, which resemble the locked door puzzles in Ravenhearst. They’re the best part of the game. They even attract my eight-year-old son’s attention as he joins me in solving them.

Another neat twist is that every location doesn’t mean you’ll go a-hunting for 10 or so hidden objects. Some scenes have a mini-game that usually has something to do with words. It could be rearranging jumbled letters to create two words that are opposites, creating 10 four-lettered words from the given letters, or playing a hangman-style game to find three words describing the carnival worker plus a couple of others.
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Review from: Casualicious dot Com

If you’re already familiar with the Mystery Case Files games (but pointing more towards Ravenhearst) then you already know what to expect.

Let’s enumerate, shall we?

1. Picturesque, imaginative, and very very messy surroundings where you will have to find various items given on your list.

2. Challenging mini games that may even tempt you to buy the Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate Strategy Guide.

3. And new to this installment are the scene-within-a-scene stages (you’ll know what I mean) where you are pitted with more puzzles, a “weirdo stage” (I made that up) featuring a game weirdo, and locked stages where you’ll have to find “unlisted and randomly changing” objects that can give you a certain stage’s key for further exploration.

To help you on your mission though, a time bonus effect is given to you whenever you find 3 clues fast enough. Now, time bonuses are delicious, so you just have to plan your next 3 clicks before you actually press the mouse for you to get them every time.
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Review from: Casual Gameplay

Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate is a brand new hidden object game just released in the Mystery Case Files series. This installment drops you in a carnival where the fortune teller Madame Fate has seen something troubling in her crystal ball. At the stroke of midnight she will be killed, but which carnival character will commit the act? Maybe it's the bearded lady? Or is it the strong man? The sword swallower? Gather clues about the carnies by finding hidden items and solving puzzles throughout the dark and mysterious circus.

The item hunting genre should be familiar to most casual gamers by now, and Mystery Case Files is one of the most widely-recognized names out there. You are presented with a number of different scenes, each with dozens of objects cleverly hidden amongst the clutter. A list sits at the right showing what items you need to find. All you need to do is check the list, hunt for the item, and click when you find it. You have a generous time limit that gets depleted if you click too fast, so keep your cool and use your limited hints wisely.
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Review from: IT EXPRESSIONS

Latest addition to the Mystery Case Files series, Madame Fate has you helping a Fortune Teller who has foreseen her own death. You need to uncover who is out to kill her before her prediction comes true.

If you enjoyed other games in the series such as Ravenhearst Manor, Mystery Case Files Madame Fate is sure to please those hidden object aficionados among us. There are more hidden objects than ever and provides a good brain teaser to boot.
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Review from: Game Mile

Overview: Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate combines hidden object gameplay with word games and numerous mind-benders sort of what we were playing at puzzle rooms of Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst . MCF: Madame Fate can be played in time-limited mode and the mode that features extended time.

Game story: Madame Fate, the owner of carnival and a fortunetelling pro, has foreseen her coming demise. In her crystal ball, she saw herself killed by someone of her employees. So, you are to carefully sleuth the whereabouts of each of circus employees to trace the murderer and stop him/her.

Game characters: Madame Fate is not a very nice person. Just a traditional moody fortune-teller. But her employees represent the most notorious carnival types you could ever see in real life: an unfortunate magician, an ambitious bearded beauty, a sulky carny, and a fishy mermaid etc. Altogether there are 15 of them, and each has their own motives to get rid of Madame Fate.
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