Poor Samantha Swift. Once again hot on the trail of her missing father, she unwittingly gives a nefarious villain the means to rediscover the Midas Touch, the ability to turn objects into solid gold. Realizing her mistake, she ventures off to right the wrong and bury the secret of the golden touch once more. Finding dad will just have to wait.
Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch is a very likeable game, if frustrating at times. Samantha is sort of like Lara Croft's kid sister – part archaeologist, part tomb raider, all spunky adventurer. She travels the world in search of artifacts to fill the halls of the Museum of the Lost, while her assistants back in the lab keep in touch via PDA, giving her clues about where to look next. They're a charming little crew that wants to find Sam's dad as much as they want to preserve antiquities for the sake of history. If you remember the Indiana Jones line "It belongs in a museum," that's pretty much how Samantha and her pals feel.
Avanquest Software Publishing has today announced the release of new additions to their Click & Play Games range, Hidden Mysteries: Titanic - Secret of the Fateful Voyage, Luxor Adventures, Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch, The Clockwork Man, The Mystery of the Crystal Portal and Escape the Museum 2. All of these titles are available now with a Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of £9.99.
DGS-Online writes: "Greek mythology is known for its many wonderful stories alongside real events often fictional elements. Similarly King Midas, who had the gift to everything he touched into gold. Samantha Swift explorer traveling in this part halfway around the world for its client a famous scroll of Alexander the Great found. All special artifacts that they find the road, they may hold in a museum exhibit them. This seems almost too good to be true ... and it is."
Steam has discounted the entire MumboJumbo catalog as part of their standard weekend deal. Now through Sunday, any of 15 of the publisher's titles can be picked up for 50% to 90% off.
