Aurora Hills: Chapter 1

NovaSoft Interactive

About this game

Welcome to Aurora Hills!

Nestled deep within the Appalachian Mountains, Aurora Hills was known for its thriving industry and its picturesque landscape. Owing to the region's natural resources, Aurora Hills was looking to become one of the most prosperous towns in the state.

All is not how it seems, however. A series of disappearances of residents and tourists alike have plagued the region over the past few years, sparking a mass exodus from the small town. Now, in October 1981, the town is a shell of its former self. The prosperity that once blessed Aurora Hills has all but evaporated.

Working as a park ranger, you must investigate what's going on with these disappearances and answer questions that have tormented residents for years. Why has there been an increase in disappearances over the past 6 months? Why are there no traces of the people who went missing? Perhaps most importantly, who, or what, could be behind all of this? It's up to you to venture forth, deep into the national park, to uncover the mysteries of Aurora Hills...



Developed by the creators of Meridian 157, Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 is the first part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Based in the year 1981 in a small West Virginian community, Aurora Hills follows the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from the region. Explore the rolling hills of West Virginia, find clues of the whereabouts of the missing people and solve intriguing puzzles to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!

Play as Ethan Hill, a park ranger detective investigating the unsolved mystery of the Aurora Hills disappearances! Solve puzzles and enigmas in this new point and click, hidden object, escape room style puzzle adventure game now for free!

Features:
• Custom soundtrack and sound effects designed for a creepy in-game atmosphere
• Challenging and clever puzzles
• A logical hint system for some of the most difficult riddles
• Available in 9 languages, including English, French, Russian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese!
• New colour blind mode available for people who might have trouble with colour based puzzles

Ratings and reviews

This game looks amazing! I was surprised to find out that it's just TWO people who made this! You guys did great! The artwork is beautiful and life-like, the sounds and music are just right, and the puzzles are challenging, but not too difficult to figure out. The cutscenes really impressed me as well, I wouldn't have minded a longer tour through the woods with the character, it was so beautiful. I can't wait to play the next chapter, I want to know what happens next!

I loved the game at least I loved what little of it there was. Honestly I'd prefer just paying the money for a full game rather than having one short chapter at a time for free, that being said however I really did like it a lot and it's refreshing to play an adventure game that isn't super buggy where it's obvious they don't actually care about quality. Please release full game if the rest of it is as good as this was I'm sure people won't mind paying a some money.

Great game from very talented developers. Was really looking forward to this game after the Meridian series and it did not disappoint. The graphics, sounds, gameplay, story and puzzles are absolutely awesome and intriguing. Seemed a little short but it's free and there's more to come, although with all the time and hard work put into this game I would happily pay. Can't wait for chapter 2 😀

What's new

• Fixed issue of app failing to launch on some devices
• Increased in-game performance
• Fixed crashing issue of app when going to home screen on some devices
• Added option to change difficulty after starting the game