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The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux • 2016

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Quick resume

Find a way to destroy the ancient artifacts!

Global score

87/100

Genres

Adventure, Casual, Puzzle

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    Pros

    • Beautiful graphics and artwork
    • Engaging fantasy story
    • Varied puzzles and hidden object scenes
    • Cute baby griffin helper
    • Bonus chapter extending gameplay

    Cons

    • Some puzzles are repetitive or frustrating
    • Short main game length
    • Low quality cutscenes and voice acting
    • Story can be thin or nonsensical
    • Limited novelty or innovation in gameplay

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Story

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    • Thrill

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Experimenting, Creativity, Thrill.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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