Renowned for its foggy summers, steep hills, eclectic architecture and famous landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars, San Francisco is now the site of thousands of cleverly hidden objects in Big City Adventure: San Francisco. That's right. If you're a fan of the hard-to-find, you're in for a delightful time in the city on the bay.

So, what's exactly in store for hunt-and-search aficionados? A scavenger's trip of a lifetime!

Big City Adventure: San Francisco is the latest addition to the popular genre of hidden-object games. Set in cosmopolitan San Francisco, it offers you the chance to visit 20 of the city's famous, and not-so-illustrious, landmarks. In the process, you'll learn some interesting and obscure historical facts, as well as collect some cool mementos.

In all, thousands of objects are concealed amid the game's 120 rounds of cluttered-up fun. Included are 60 rounds of treasure hunting interspersed with an additional 60 rounds of entertaining mini-games (comprised of match-three style play, jigsaw puzzles and memory challenges) that provide a transition between destinations. Each hot spot is also described via a "postcard" that offers some interesting bits of info about its history.

Play begins by entering your name and selecting one of six family members (Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother, Grandpa or Grandma) to represent you. Then, it's off to the first local, Alcatraz Island (other spots include Market & Powell, Haight-Ashbury and the Golden Gate Bridge). While the game doesn't feature traditional separate play modes, you can switch at any time between a Timed and Relaxed mode of play from the Options Screen. Still, you'll usually have plenty of time to find most objects even when playing "on the clock."

Like all games in the genre, what you'll find when you land at each location is a menagerie of items, both appropriate and inappropriate to the surroundings, presented in a manner befitting the best hoarders in the business. Some objects will be quite apparent, while others will be cleverly disguised. In either case, your task is to find all the items listed before time runs out.

But, as alluded to above, gameplay is not just about digging through screen after screen of accumulated junk. Interesting mini-games are used as transitions between San Francisco's numerous locales. Three tile games are employed, including the old memory game where you flip tiles over to match item pairs. In another, objects are visible but must be matched with exact replicas displayed below. Otherwise, you incur a penalty. You'll also find a match-three derivation. In each case, the goal is to break the tile by making correct matches. The last mini-game, a standard jigsaw puzzle, breaks up the tile madness...

I've always wanted to go to San Francisco on vacation, but it hasn't worked out. So Big City Adventure: San Francisco is as close as I can to visit this city full of rich history and fascinating sites. This hidden object game shares all kinds of facts about the city and 20 of its spots.

The game contains 60 levels, so you visit the same spot a few times and pick up a new fact each time you visit. You discover your new destination by completing a mini-game and then do the hunt for hidden objects at the destination. This one nicely ties the hidden object scene and mini-games with the game's San Francisco theme. Be warned… it starts easy, but it will get harder! Avoid any temptation to feel cocky early on like I did.

Upon finding all the objects in a level, you earn a token that appears on the edge of the map screen. The tokens work their way around the map until you've covered all three sides. This helps track your progress. You earn "Quick Find Bonus" points when you find more than one object quickly or complete more than one move closely in the mini-game.

The ultimate feature in this one that should be a standard in all hidden object games: Letting you know when you click something and it turns out to be nothing. Many of the games don't always "hear" your click and you don't want to click again for fear you'll lose points. Not a problem with Big City Adventure SF. The game shows an icon when you click an object that doesn't appear on the list of things you need to find. I'm currently playing another hidden object game and too many times something I clicked earlier turn out to be one of the objects on the list...

If you expect to see another monotonous hidden-object clone, I have to disappoint you.

In this game hidden-objects locations contain animated elements just like in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile.

What's more important, the graphics itself is amazing.

Each location is created by professional hand with love and great sense of humor.

And when you find yourself on the crowded Market Square, you can hear the sound of the cable car bell and feel like having a hot dog.

In terms of difficulty this game is relatively simple. The time periods for each level are long enough not to make you replay each level for 10 times before you can memorize where all hidden objects are located. I'll tell you a secret: me, I've passed 6 locations in 1 hour being a mediocre detective in MCF...

This is a seek-and-find game where, in a screen-full of diverse objects, you have to find those items which are listed on the bottom of the screen. There is a time limit - or none if you have checked the "Relaxed Mode – no time limits"

This game uses the various local locations of San Francisco to anchor the game. And Oberon does a good job of displaying the map and then selecting the important sites of the city – Alcatraz, the shopping district at Market and Powell, the Opera house, Mission Delores. Before you can access a new area you have to solve a puzzle – a match 3 game, sorting or an actual puzzle. Once you have solved the entire puzzle, you can go back and play it again – with a new group to find...

Big City Adventure: San Francisco Game is a find and seek puzzle game set in San Francisco. Big City Adventure: San Francisco has plenty of levels and is good for several days of game play before you reach the end. Presumably this is going to be continued to other cities. Big City Adventure: San Francisco is good Game value for your family PC and educational, too.

The trip of a lifetime awaits you in Big City Adventure: San Francisco!

Join the Big City Adventure: San Francisco treasure hunt and search for thousands of cleverly hidden items all over the magnificent city of San Francisco!

In Big City Adventure: San Francisco you travel to all of the most famous (and not so famous) locations in this big city adventure in the cosmopolitan city of San Francisco...

Oh no! The overly-aggressive Smokestack Coffee Company is stamping out local competition with its overpriced coffee that tastes like mud. Um, that's the Smokestack company - though you might have thought they go by another name. Ahem.

In Anarchy Entertainment's Coffee Rush, it's up to you to open your own coffee shop and take back all the areas of town dominated by the evil corporation's trendy cafes. Up for the challenge? While it lacks in the originality department, Coffee Rush can be as addictive as the drink itself.

Imagine a puzzle game board like Bejeweled, but instead of an 8x8 grid of gemstones, such as diamonds and rubies, in Coffee Rush you're playing with coffee beans, milk, sugar, whipped cream, ice cubes and other coffee-related items. The idea is to build a recipe as indicated on the right-hand side of the screen, which involves swapping adjacent items so that you create a line of 3 or more identical items, vertically or horizontally. This causes the items to disappear and make room for additional items to fall down onto the board.

A "Hey Hey Cafe Latte" recipe, for example, might require 7 coffee beans, six milks, five sugars and four lightning bolts. Once you meet this minimum, the drink is ready and you can click on it to give to the waiting customer.

Similar to "time management" games, you must make a certain amount of money by the end of the day to move onto the next level or else you need to repeat the day.

But a word of warning for those who've played Gamenauts', Burger Rush: Coffee Rush is essentially the same game but with coffee-related items instead of fast food ingredients. If I'm not mistaken, however, Coffee Rush does offer more special items (that, when used in a chain, can help you prepare your drinks faster), more combos (you can add sandwiches and other items with a drink for extra cash), more treats to hold off impatient customers (such as donuts and muffins) and more bonuses awarded for strategic matching...

The problem is that the Smokestack owners adhere to the philosophy of low quality and high price, which makes their customers mad. Moreover, they pollute the atmosphere of the whole city, and that is surely not the best way to do business. So your are proposed to challenge the unconscientious corporation and drive them out of the city and of the industry.

Start your own coffee business with a small shop in Suburbia and expand your coffee empire to all the 7 neighborhoods, where you'll meet lots of unique customers with their unique peculiarities.

As I already said, the game is a combination of match 3 and time-management genres. Your main task, as in most time-managements, is to serve all the customers coming to your shop in the shortest time possible in order to earn the highest tips. Customers lose their patience if you do not work fast enough, and they can even leave if you linger with their order for too long. At the stage of fulfilling the orders you will be offered traditional match 3 game play, for each recipe consists of certain ingredients needed to prepare it, such as coffee seeds, milk or sugar. In order to get the ingredients you will have to match them on the playfield. The game features 3 difficulty levels to choose from and 3 goals for each level to reach. It's enough to achieve Level Goal to pass it, but it may be quite a challenge to reach Expert and Super Goals, so there is no limit for perfection...

You don't have to be a coffee freak to enjoy this fabulous game that is a cross between match 3 play and time management games.

The multi national Smokestack Coffee Company is ruining the environment and coffee lovers taste buds with their horrible brew and chimney stacks belching filth into the air. Now is the right time for an enterprising person to open up a coffee chain and take back customers hearts and taste buds...

Teri Tale is an author who moves away from the bustle of New York to Peeking Town to work on her next book. Not surprisingly - at least to anyone who has played a hidden object mystery before - Peeking Town is not the quiet suburb that it appears to be on the surface. Things go sideways when Jason, a purebred Chinese Crested Dog and beloved pet of Teri's new friend Abigail, goes missing. Teri takes it upon herself to find the missing pup, and voila - the premise for Miss Teri Tale.

The town is full of suspects, from Abigail's neglected husband to the mailman whose ankles Jason used to nip, to the jealous neighbor whose own Chinese Crested Dog is competing for the same prize at the dog show, among others.

You gradually narrow down the list of suspects by searching for clues in and around their respective properties. Each location contains a list of items you must find and click on, such as a feather duster, tape dispenser, bunch of grapes, and life preserver. Some of the items will be key clues that will either further incriminate a suspect or clear his or her name for good. Through process of elimination, you'll gradually begin to home in on the real dog-napper.

However, not before you've revisited the same 9 properties and 17 areas over and over again, backtracking your steps in a seemingly random and meandering investigation that drags on for a little too long. It doesn't help that the game's weak story doesn't do a good job of driving gameplay forward...

Miss Teri Tale is a by Reflexive development of the hidden object game. In the game, players will play actress Teri Tale, and moved to New York to follow her peeking in the town, according to the clues left to help find puppies Jason neighbors.

Miss Teri Tale used as a photo realist style of the same picture, the overall effect of high and no significant of messy. Screen colors fresh and natural. Story theme decided the game environment, players can admire the town of customs, and some beautiful scenes in a room.

With the real scene images, audio processing in the game is also very realistic, played under different occasions different beautiful music, the audience will put more immersed in the mystery of the process of exploration...

The latest hidden object game release is Miss Teri Tale from Big Fish Games. You, the player, are Miss Teri Tale. You’ve moved from the city to quiet little Peeking Town to work on your next book. You’re suffering from writer’s block until Jason, your neighbor’s dog, is kidnapped. Inspired by this tragedy, you determine to find Jason, solve the mystery of his disappearance and turn the story into your next best-seller. A series of emails from a mysterious blackmailer keep you motivated to follow the tale to its conclusion.

The mystery must be solved by finding clues in your neighbors’ homes. You search each home numerous times while the occupants are away. While the dognapping might be a crime, breaking and entering apparently can be done with a clear conscience - all for a good cause, of course...

Depending on your predilections, you may have read Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Count Of Monte Cristo, or at least seen one or more of the many film iterations. Well, unless you're the most die-hard of hidden-object fans and simply must play every game in the genre, you may want to leave well enough alone and pass on FindHiddenObjects.com's seek-and-find variant on the tale.

The Count of Monte Cristo, based loosely on the 19th century narrative of betrayal, envy, imprisonment and revenge, combines hidden-object action with numerous mini-games and adds in short bits and pieces of the classic masterpiece to come up with a somewhat bastard of an offering. In essence, the story is peripheral to gameplay and serves only as a setting to house the eclectic and disjointed mix of game elements.

In the course of play, you search through more than 20 different scenes (based on locales from the novel) for traditional hidden-object bounty, as well as encountering over 15 various mini-games. For what purpose? To investigate eight different characters who are part of the well-known story, determining which suspects are "guilty" or "not guilty" of the crimes committed against poor Edmond Dantes. Occasional cut scenes move the story along, but little ties gameplay into the classic tale. As for your "investigation," locating all the concealed objects relating to a suspect automatically informs you as to whether that person is guilty or innocent, with no actual deduction on your part whatsoever.

When you begin, you're given the option of choosing between two game modes, Normal Time and Extended Time. If the average seek-and-find diversion challenges you, choose the latter. Otherwise, stick with the former. The downside of having less time is that, should you run out before completing all object searches and mini-games associated with each suspect, you have to start that segment of the game over from scratch, an hour's worth of play time.

Being a hidden-object pastime, The Count of Monte Cristo devotes most gameplay to traditional seek-and-find searches. Each scene includes a menagerie of unrelated items you must sift through to locate those named on a given list. Objects run the gamut of period specific goods like halberds, tankards and muskets to all sorts of animals, insects, birds, fruits and vegetables, and miscellaneous paraphernalia. Find them all and you move on to the next search or one of the many included mini-games...

...Your adventure starts off in a dark prison cell full of various creatures and objects. At the bottom of the screen is a list of items that you must find to pass this stage. You also have five hints to help you along. When you click the hint button, an item that you're looking for will be circled, showing you its location. Using only your eyes and the mouse, you must find everything on the list to move forward.

While the bulk of the gameplay centers around finding objects, certain bonus stages do mix it up a bit. In one level you'll be given the remnants of a torn map which you must piece back together. It's actually rather difficult, as some pieces may not even be rightside up and you'll have to hit the spacebar to flip them around.

Each level consists of several stages, of which you move back and forth freely. If you can't find a certain object in one stage, simply take a break and play another stage in the mean time.

You start off with five hints that last you through out the whole level. To get more, you may go to a cave full of treasure and look for gems. For every 10 gems you find, you get one hint...

The Count of Monte Cristo game is a French writer Dumas under the same name works "The Count of Monte Cristo" and the mysterious sight of the production works. In the game, you need to follow a heroine Aidemengtangtaishi imprisonment experienced by the frame-up, get to know the priests, the death row escape, as well as the entire process of revenge.

Very rich game scenes, including more than 20 full real piece of the space environment, the performance of the game delicate art images and perfect details. Whether the story is old-style animation, or the atmospheric rendering of the characters, depicts a very delicate.

Accompanied by a thunderous roar into the maze of plot, a good grasp of the background music to create an atmosphere full of suspense space in the sharp-click sound to find complete tasks...