Pure Nintendo: "Foggy Valley maintains the status quo when it comes to content. Like City Mysteries, it’s quite short. Replay is more to find new items, and less to get a faster time or more points. With readily available hints that show you the exact location of items (and offer no point penalty) Foggy Valley doesn’t present much of a challenge, even with a timed mode.
Like the prior title, genre fans will get some short-lived fun here, but may want to wait for a sale due to the games brevity. I’d like to see Selectsoft aim higher, with more content for these releases. I’ve reviewed better hidden object games on the eShop, but there are just enough differences and improvements here to make me score Foggy Valley a bit higher than City Mysteries. It’s still just an average game, but an enjoyable enough way for fans to pass the time."
"It’s hard to believe that the 3DS eShop houses so many hidden object games within its figurative walls. We haven’t tallied an exact count of these games on offer, but we do know that there are very few that we’ve scored higher than average; in most cases we’ve found them to be unsatisfactory. It’s a pity that we've seen a number of these low quality games, but we're remaining optimistic that soon enough we'll receive a hidden object game that gets it right. Could Hideaways: Foggy Valley finally be the one to set a new standard? Well, you probably shouldn't hold your breath."
