YMMV / Elephant Games

• Base-Breaking Character: Richard Gray, from Grim Tales and later Detectives United, is this to judge by the reviews on Big Fish Games. Players either find his snark hilarious and refreshing, or they think he's a Jerkass who treats his daughter badly. (It probably doesn't help that he was introduced in the first Grim Tales game as attempting to pull an Offing the Offspring, and it's revealed that he succeeded in a prior attempt.) His fans are more likely to be players who were first introduced to him in Detectives United, since his personality there is given a Lighter and Softer treatment and the spoilered incident is never mentioned at all.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Inferred Holocaust: When Queen Margaret returns from a lengthy trip in Cursed Fables: White as Snow, she discovers her husband's palace has been turned into a Haunted Castle and that everyone except her stepdaughter is missing. Then people start turning up dead...
• Magnificent Bastard: Mystery Trackers: The Void: Sirius Void is the second personality of Malleus Void, who came to be after Malleus couldn't handle the abuse he was suffering. Stronger and tougher than Malleus, Sirius posed as his twin brother while trying to turn the park Malleus has created into more nightmarish land. Killing the doctor, whom Malleus had hired to suppress him, Sirius manipulates and kills two celebrities who came to Malleus for fame and immortality. Falling in love with Rebecca Thatcher, Sirius committed several crimes in her name and when the Detective arrived to stop him, he tricked her into falling to his deadly traps, nearly killing her twice. Completely "destroying" Malleus by the time of the Bonus Chapter, Sirius breaks free of Rebecca's influence and effortlessly escapes the high security prison by fooling all the guards and the computer system, flying to the ship, which he took over and travels deep into the sea with no one being able to catch him.
• Nightmare Fuel: Dana's backstory in Strange Investigations is brimming with this. Her little sister Ursula was kidnapped on her tenth birthday - she seemed to almost vanish into thin air. The case went unsolved for years while Dana, determined to find her, became a police detective in order to solve the case. And she did, but the resolution was even more nightmare fuel: the kidnapper, a Serial Killer who called himself The Artist, held Ursula in his basement the entire time, keeping her just barely alive and meanwhile following news reports on the continuing efforts to find her. When Dana tracked them down after years of searching, she and Ursula were finally reunited - and then The Artist murdered Ursula right in front of Dana. He deliberately kept her alive just long enough to be found, because he wanted to watch the effect it would have on the person who found her. Also serves as literal nightmare fuel, since in the present day Dana suffers from recurring Past Experience Nightmares related to the whole thing.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Judging by the reviews on Big Fish, this is a common reaction to the 19th Mystery Trackers installment, Forgotten Voices. Players complained about the youthful appearance of the new agents, the absence of Canine Companion Elf, and the idea that the previous player character might be stepping down in favor of the new teenage characters.
  • A few reviewers had a similar reaction to Paranormal Files: Ghost Chapter, which adds a trio of young adult members to Rick and Rachel's team of investigators. Rick's disappearance doesn't seem to have gotten too much flak, as it makes for an interesting story; but these reviewers questioned why Elephant seems to think that the players want "young guns" brought into their games, when demographics show that the biggest fans of hidden object games tend to be women between the ages of 30 and 60.