Mystery Case Files

Mystery Case Files
Official logo of the series
Genres	Adventure, puzzle, hidden object
Developers	Big Fish Studios (2005-2012) Elephant Games (2013-2014) Eipix Entertainment (2015–)
Publishers	Big Fish Games
Creators	Adrian Woods
Composers	Somatone Interactive Audio (2005-2010) Clean Cuts Music (2011-2012) Yuriy Ginzburg (2013-2014)
Platforms	Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Wii
First release	Mystery Case Files: Huntsville November 14, 2005
Latest release	Mystery Case Files: Broken Hours November 22, 2016

Mystery Case Files (also known as MCF) is a video game series originally developed by the internal studios of Big Fish Games. New installments are currently developed by Eipix Entertainment, replacing Elephant Games who developed sequels from 2013 to 2014. The Mystery Case Files series is known for its ‘Hidden Object’ puzzles where, in order to progress through a game, the player must find a certain number of items hidden somewhere on a painted scene.

Big Fish Games "estimates that 100 million people have at least sampled trial versions" of the Mystery Case Files games since the initial launch of Mystery Case Files: Huntsville.

The latest installment in the series, Broken Hours, was released on November 22, 2016 and is the fourteenth game in the series.

There have been thirteen titles in the Mystery Case Files series to date. After Mystery Case Files: Huntsville, each installment has added additional features including:

(No live action videos have been used since Elephant and Eipix took over production of the games, beginning respectively with Fate's Carnival and Key to Ravenhearst.)

Storyline and characters have played an increasingly important part in the development of the series, especially from the third game onwards. The game Ravenhearst begins a story-arc that continues on into the next two games after it, Madame Fate and Return to Ravenhearst, however the storyline was introduced in Prime Suspects at the ending, with a letter saying the Queen requested your assistance on an urgent matter, which is later confirmed to be the Ravenhearst case via phone call in Madame Fate. The following game, Dire Grove, follows on from the previous game, but does not lead directly into the same story. The seventh and ninth installments, 13th Skull and Shadow Lake returns the series to a standalone story format, while the eighth installment, Escape from Ravenhearst returned to the Ravenhearst story-arc.