NatGeo: World of Secrets
By Erin Bell,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Kids explore, collect artifacts in hidden-object game.
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What’s It About?
In NATGEO: WORLD OF SECRETS, players visit seven locations -- including Egypt, the Yucatan Peninsula, Alaska, and Great Britain -- to investigate the disappearance of the main character's father. They receive help from explorers of the National Geographic Society. Players search 27 hidden-object scenes for items, which are then combined to build artifacts to decorate a museum. There are more than 160 quests to complete, which involve exploring, interacting with characters, building, and decorating.
Is It Any Good?
World of Secrets offers hidden-object searches that are mostly on-message with the game's Victorian-era setting and explorer theme. For example, you might search an arctic scene for fur-lined boots, skis, and binoculars -- not just random junk. There's some effort to liven up the scenes with random events, such as storms and fog, which add extra layers of challenge (unless players buy their way out). Quests and leveling give the game focus and a clear sense of progress. Players are required to play the same scenes over and over again, however, which becomes repetitive after a while in spite of the game's efforts to shake things up with varied item lists and locations.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about Facebook's privacy settings and why it's important not to give strangers full access to your Facebook profile, wall, and photos.
Discuss the interesting places you get to visit. Which one would you most want to visit in real life?
Game Details
- Platform: Facebook
- Subjects: Social Studies : exploration, history
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : solving puzzles, Self-Direction : work to achieve goals, Collaboration : meeting challenges together
- Available online?: Available online
- Publisher: 6waves
- Release date: August 2, 2013
- Genre: Puzzle
- ESRB rating: NR
- Last updated: August 25, 2016
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