Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery Review

A relaxing “Where is Waldo?” type of puzzle game with the unique mechanic that you can open up buildings to look inside, as well as having the option to change the time of day in later levels. It has no missable achievements and takes around 4h to unlock all them all.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: Around 4 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 1/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide, but if you’re looking for one, Knoef Trophy Guides made a great one.
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery is another great “Where is Waldo?” kinda puzzle game made by Rogueside. They already made 2 earlier games with the same style, but you don’t need to play them to enjoy this game. The stories don’t seem to be connected.

In Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery you get to play through 3 different campaigns. With a story that goes through multiple different puzzles within that campaign. The stories didn’t interest me that much, they didn’t feel like a story and just something that was added to explain why the next puzzle was there.

What I did enjoy were all the details in each level. and what makes this series special is that it allows you to look inside buildings as well as the outside of the buildings. The later levels in each campaign also have different times of day to search for different things. They also did a great job with the hints they added to the items. If I couldn’t find an item without checking the hint, the hint helped me narrow down the areas to look for it.

I’m so glad the achievements in Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery didn’t go overboard. You have to find all the items in the 3 campaigns as well as finishing and liking 5 online maps (made by other players). There are maps online that only have 1 item to find and you can replay the same map if you unlike and like the map at the end of each map. None of the achievements are missable and it is just a relaxing game to play through.

I give Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery 4 out of 5 stars.

This review for Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery was written on 10 August 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 12 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.