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Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst

PuzzleAdventure

Steam
Released

Dec 2011

Exact day not announced

Platforms
  • PC
  • Mac
  • iOS

Release dates

North America dates
  1. Apr 1, 20134,965 days ago
    • iOS
  2. Dec 2011
    • PC
    • Mac

About

Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst is an adventure-puzzle casual game developed by Big Fish Studios and distributed by Big Fish Games. It is the eight installment in the Mystery Case Files series and third and final installment in the Ravenhearst story-arc. The Collector's Edition is available exclusively on the Big Fish Games website.

Trailers

Screenshots

How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 4 players
Main story
4.5 h
Completionist
10 h

Reviews

Steam63%Mixed · 100 reviews
IGDB players72/1008 ratings

Game info

Released
2011 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person · Bird view / Isometric

Studios

Age ratings

  • ESRBTCrude Humor, Mild Blood, Violence

Themes & tags

Story & names

After mysterious disappearances has baffled Blackpool, England, the Master Detective is summoned back to the haunted grounds of Ravenhearst Manor about the case. Very little of the manor has survived the holocaust ignited when the Detective disabled Charles Dalimar's immortality machine, but Emma Ravenhearst's ghost appears to him, warning him away, but promising to help if he proceeds. After inspecting the ruins as far as a nearby lighthouse and the back garden, the Master Detective is flung into an open grave bearing his (or her) own name by Victor Dalimar. After encountering Charles, the Master Detective sets to work on a steampunk recreation of scenes in Charles' insane life, which the Detective must now relive by solving one puzzle after another. Arriving in an underground antechamber, the Master Detective must watch as the four souls previously rescued from the manor: Emma, Rose Somerset, and her twin daughters Charlotte and Gwendolyn are re-imprisoned, and restored to living humans as each scene opens. The Detective must participate in recreating Charles's birth, abusive childhood, time of commitment to a mental institution, and the wedding he planned for himself and Emma. Once the Detective has traveled through Charles's world, the final door opens (via Emma's chamber) to reveal a rudimentary mansion with a new immortality machine, powered by the life-forces of the kidnapped citizens of Blackpool. Sneaking past a jubilant Charles and Victor, the Master Detective deciphers clues from the enslaved prisoners to figure out how to shut down the machine, freeing Emma, Rose, Gwendolyn, and Charlotte and destroying the Dalimars once and for all.

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Also known as

  • MCF: Ravenhearst 3
  • MCF: Escape from Ravenhearst
  • MCF8Standard.exeWindows Executable

Release dates by region

3 releases in 1 region

worldwide

The Mystery Case Files series

All 40 games
  1. Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst2006
  2. Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate2007
  3. Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir2008
  4. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst2008
  5. Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove2009
  6. Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull2011
  7. Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident2011
  8. This gameMystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst2011
  9. Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake2012
  10. Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival2013
  11. Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove2014
  12. Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst Unlocked - Collector's Edition2015

Showing 3–14 of 40 main games, in release order.

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Where to find it

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