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* ''Shadow Wolf Mysteries''''{{VideoGame/ShadowWolfMysteries}}''
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when googling this company, every page except this one says its ukrainian
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ERS Game Studios (now called AMAX Interactive) is a Russian game developer known mainly for their works in the HiddenObjectGame market. They started as a small company in 2006, creating simple games for everyone to enjoy. They became well known in October of 2009, when they released the first of the ''{{VideoGame/Puppetshow}}'' games, and have created Supernatural/Mystery-based games ever since. They are well known for their scenery, stories, and puzzles, and there's always something for everyone to enjoy.
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ERS Game Studios (now called AMAX Interactive) is a Russian Ukrainian game developer known mainly for their works in the HiddenObjectGame market. They started as a small company in 2006, creating simple games for everyone to enjoy. They became well known in October of 2009, when they released the first of the ''{{VideoGame/Puppetshow}}'' games, and have created Supernatural/Mystery-based games ever since. They are well known for their scenery, stories, and puzzles, and there's always something for everyone to enjoy.
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* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Prominent in many of their games.
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* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Prominent in many of their games.games.
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** ''Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug'': A Newfoundland named Arthur, who is exceptionally clever and can assist in the investigation.
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* ThePlayerIsTheMostImportantResource: The crux of the ''Worlds Align'' games is that the player ''is'' the player character, and is brought into the worlds of the games to help prevent them from being destroyed by evil forces. Because the player is a "real person," they can't be affected by the bad guys in the same way that the game characters can.
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* FantasticCatholicism: Seen often in the ''Haunted Legends'' series, where the player frequently interacts with a high-ranking Cardinal, various lower-ranked abbots and monks, and devout members of the Royal Musketeers (the games being set in medieval France). While the general trappings of the religion are present, this trope is featured in the way the Church combats magic users and supernatural beings; the Cardinal and most of his underlings are always the good guys.
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* UnSorcerer: Of a sort. In the ''Worlds Align'' games, the fact that the player is an ordinary person is what enables them to avoid being affected by the dark powers which threaten the game worlds. The villain even lampshades it in the first game, admitting that he hadn't expected Dupin to recruit someone from the human world.
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There have been no new games from the studio since August 2020; AMAX Interactive has been renamed (or purchased by) Rightcom United LP, possibly as a result of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and it's unclear whether game production is expected to be happening anytime soon.
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* ''{{VideoGame/Dark Tales}}''''VideoGame/DarkTales''
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* FullMotionVideo: ''Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony'', ''Dark Alleys: Penumbra Motel'' and ''Gothic Fiction: Dark Saga'' are the only games so far to use live actors rather than the hand-drawn characters ERS is known for.
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* FullMotionVideo: ''Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony'', ''Dark Alleys: Penumbra Motel'' and ''Gothic Fiction: Dark Saga'' are the only games so far to use live actors rather than the hand-drawn characters for which ERS is known for.known.
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* NoFourthWall: In the ''Worlds Align'' series, you literally play as yourself. The first game's opening, once you select your preferences for things like volume and difficulty, features Dupin ''shoving the menu out of the way'' and then offering his hand to pull you into the game world. Throughout the entire game, he and other characters speak directly to you, the player.
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* NoFourthWall: In the ''Worlds Align'' series, you literally play as yourself. The first game's opening, once you select your preferences for things like volume and difficulty, features Dupin ''shoving the menu out of the way'' and then offering his hand to pull you into the game world. Throughout the entire game, he and other characters speak directly to you, the player. This is also true of the second game, although it happens much less frequently.
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** ''Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells''
** ''Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry''
** ''Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry''
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* AuthorAppeal: If there's a game with a location in real life, chances are it's in Europe. ''Dark Tales'' and ''Puppetshow'' games post-''Destiny Undone'' take place in France (although ''Dark Tales'' also has installments in England and the United States), and ''Grim Facade'' has locations in Italy and Spain.
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* AuthorAppeal: If there's a game with a location in real life, chances are it's in Europe. ''Dark Tales'' and ''Puppetshow'' games post-''Destiny Undone'' take place in France (although ''Dark Tales'' also has installments set in England England, Hungary, and the United States), and ''Grim Facade'' has locations in Italy and Spain.
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** ''Haunted Legends: The Secret of Life'' averts this as you play as [[FallenHero St. Germain]] whose appearance [[spoiler:before being cursed into the dwarf commonly seen throughout the games and turned evil]] is shown in at the start of the game.
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** ''Haunted Legends: The Secret of Life'' averts this as you play as [[FallenHero St. Germain]] Germain]], whose appearance [[spoiler:before being cursed into the dwarf commonly seen throughout the games and turned evil]] is shown in at the start of the game.
** ''Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug'': A Newfoundland named Arthur, who is exceptionally clever and can assist in the investigation.
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* SamusIsAGirl: In some series, you play as a female. These are: ''Haunted Halls'', ''Spirits of Mystery'', ''Gothic Fiction'', ''Reveries'', ''Flights of Fancy'', ''Queen's Tales'', and ''Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost'' (only confirmed in the beta when she has a voice). Some of the ''Dark Tales'' games also have a female player character, although in others he's male.
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* SamusIsAGirl: In some series, you play as a female. These are: The player character is confirmed to be female in ''Haunted Halls'', ''Spirits of Mystery'', ''Gothic Fiction'', ''Reveries'', ''Flights of Fancy'', ''Queen's Tales'', and ''Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost'' (only confirmed in the beta when she has a voice). Some of the ''Dark Tales'' games also have a confirmed female player character, although in others he's male.
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* TakeYourTime: Generally played dead straight; no matter how long it actually takes to advance the plot, the player will always finish their tasks in time to save the day (albeit by a slim margin).
** Inverted in ''Worlds Align: Deadly Dream''--no matter how quickly you [[spoiler:free Dupin from the dream machine]], you later learn that [[YouAreTooLate you were too late]] to [[spoiler:save him and the other Watchers from [[BrainwashedAndCrazy falling under Blackmore's control]]]].
** Inverted in ''Worlds Align: Deadly Dream''--no matter how quickly you [[spoiler:free Dupin from the dream machine]], you later learn that [[YouAreTooLate you were too late]] to [[spoiler:save him and the other Watchers from [[BrainwashedAndCrazy falling under Blackmore's control]]]].
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** ''Deadly Dream''
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* IntercontinuityCrossover: The ''Worlds Align'' series brings together ''Puppetshow, Haunted Legends, Shadow Wolf Mysteries, Redemption Cemetery,'' and ''Dark Tales''. The player is pulled into the world of the games to help characters from several of the parallel universes stop a fiend who is trying to destroy them all.
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* IntercontinuityCrossover: IntercontinuityCrossover[=/=]CrisisCrossover: The ''Worlds Align'' series brings together ''Puppetshow, Haunted Legends, Shadow Wolf Mysteries, Redemption Cemetery,'' and ''Dark Tales''. The player is pulled into the world of the games to help characters from several of the parallel universes stop a fiend who is trying to destroy them all.
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* NoFourthWall: In the ''Worlds Align'' series, you literally play as yourself. The game's opening, once you select your preferences for things like volume and difficulty, features Dupin ''shoving the menu out of the way'' and then offering his hand to pull you into the game world. Throughout the entire game, he and other characters speak directly to you, the player.
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* NoFourthWall: In the ''Worlds Align'' series, you literally play as yourself. The first game's opening, once you select your preferences for things like volume and difficulty, features Dupin ''shoving the menu out of the way'' and then offering his hand to pull you into the game world. Throughout the entire game, he and other characters speak directly to you, the player.
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** It's also averted in ''Dark Tales: The Raven,'' although this is not revealed until the bonus chapter of the later game ''Morella''. A newspaper article shows that the player of ''The Raven'' is Anna Fleurs, Dupin's assistant from the now-defunct ''Nightfall'' {{Freemium}} game.
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** It's also averted in ''Dark Tales: The Raven,'' although this is not revealed until the bonus chapter of the later game ''Morella''. A newspaper article shows reveals that the player of ''The Raven'' is Anna Fleurs, Dupin's assistant from the now-defunct ''Nightfall'' {{Freemium}} game.game. (This further implies that Anna may also be the player character in some of the other games in the series, though as some of them have a clearly male player character, this can't always be the case.)
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** ''Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost'' marks the first time the protagonist gets a voice, although this was removed in the beta. ''Grim Facade: A Wealth of Betrayal'' and ''Puppetshow: Steam Heart'' will be the first ERS games to have the main character speak.
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** ''Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost'' marks the first time the protagonist gets a voice, although this was removed in the beta. ''Grim Facade: A Wealth of Betrayal'' and ''Puppetshow: Steam Heart'' will be are the first ERS games to have the main character speak.speak. The player character in ''Dark Tales: Morella'' also has a single spoken line.
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* SceneryPorn[=/=]SceneryGorn: Their games are beautiful, but when their horror game settings get creepy, they get really creepy.
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* SceneryPorn[=/=]SceneryGorn: SceneryPorn: Their games are beautiful, but when their horror game settings get creepy, they get [[SceneryGorn really creepy.creepy]].
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* CuteKitten: Cats are frequently seen in the later games. To continue with the plot, you have to feed them fish or cream, dry them up and play with them. In return, they'll let you take important inventory items and can even be used in puzzles.
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* CuteKitten: Cats are frequently seen in the later games. To continue with the plot, you have to feed them fish or cream, dry them up off, and play with them. In return, they'll let you take important inventory items and can even be used in puzzles.
** Pluto, the title character from ''Dark Tales: The Black Cat'', has become the mascot for that entire series. How ''cute'' he is may be up for debate.
** Pluto, the title character from ''Dark Tales: The Black Cat'', has become the mascot for that entire series. How ''cute'' he is may be up for debate.
* NoFourthWall: In the ''Worlds Align'' series, you literally play as yourself. The game's opening, once you select your preferences for things like volume and difficulty, features Dupin ''shoving the menu out of the way'' and then offering his hand to pull you into the game world. Throughout the entire game, he and other characters speak directly to you, the player.
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** ''Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost'' marks the first time the protagonist gets a voice. However this was removed in the beta. ''Grim Facade: A Wealth of Betrayal'' and ''Puppetshow: Steam Heart'' will be the first ERS games to have the main character speak.
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** ''Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost'' marks the first time the protagonist gets a voice. However voice, although this was removed in the beta. ''Grim Facade: A Wealth of Betrayal'' and ''Puppetshow: Steam Heart'' will be the first ERS games to have the main character speak.
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* LighterAndSofter: ''Spirits of Mystery'', ''Flights of Fancy'', ''Reveries'' and ''Queen's Tale's'' are brighter than what ERS is known for.
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* LighterAndSofter: ''Spirits of Mystery'', ''Flights of Fancy'', ''Reveries'' ''Reveries,'' and ''Queen's Tale's'' Tales'' are brighter than what ERS is known for.the developer's usual fare.
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* NoNameGiven: The {{player character}} is never given a name. In most mystery based games, they're called 'detective' and ''Spirits of Mystery'' has you being called "Your Majesty" or "Princess". The only time this is averted is in ''Reveries: Sisterly Love'', with the name "Anna", and ''Haunted Legends: The Secret of Life'' as "St. Germain".
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* NoNameGiven: The {{player character}} is never given a name. In most mystery based games, they're called 'detective' 'Detective,' and ''Spirits of Mystery'' has you being called "Your Majesty" or "Princess". The only time this is averted is in ''Reveries: Sisterly Love'', with the name "Anna", and ''Haunted Legends: The Secret of Life'' as "St. Germain".
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* IntercontinuityCrossover: The ''Worlds Align'' series brings together ''Puppetshow, Haunted Legends, Shadow Wolf Mysteries, Redemption Cemetery,'' and ''Dark Tales''. The player is pulled into the world of the games to help characters from several of the parallel universes to help them stop a fiend who is trying to destroy them all.
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* IntercontinuityCrossover: The ''Worlds Align'' series brings together ''Puppetshow, Haunted Legends, Shadow Wolf Mysteries, Redemption Cemetery,'' and ''Dark Tales''. The player is pulled into the world of the games to help characters from several of the parallel universes to help them stop a fiend who is trying to destroy them all.
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ERS Game Studios (now called AMAX Interactive) is a Russian Game Company known mainly for their works in the HiddenObjectGame market. They started as a small company in 2006, creating simple games for everyone to enjoy. They became well known in October of 2009 when they released the first of the {{VideoGame/Puppetshow}} games and began to create Supernatural/Mystery based games ever since. They are well known for their scenery, stories and puzzles and there's always something for everyone to enjoy.
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ERS Game Studios (now called AMAX Interactive) is a Russian Game Company game developer known mainly for their works in the HiddenObjectGame market. They started as a small company in 2006, creating simple games for everyone to enjoy. They became well known in October of 2009 2009, when they released the first of the {{VideoGame/Puppetshow}} games ''{{VideoGame/Puppetshow}}'' games, and began to create Supernatural/Mystery based have created Supernatural/Mystery-based games ever since. They are well known for their scenery, stories stories, and puzzles puzzles, and there's always something for everyone to enjoy.
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!!Games Developed developed by ERS Game Studios include:
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* ''{{VideoGame/Twilight Phenomena}}''''Twilight Phenomena''
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* ''{{VideoGame/Flights ''Flights of Fancy}}''Fancy''
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!!Upcoming Games from ERS Game Studios:
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** The Secrets of Pandora's Box
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** The Secrets of Pandora's Box
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!!Upcoming Games from ERS Game Studios:
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''Christmas Eve''
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