The X-Files Deep State isn’t your average hidden object game (HoG). It combines hidden object with point-and-click adventure elements and offers several challenging mini-games. HoG puzzles are not easy to solve. Scenes change colors; objects are replaced by words and letters are jumbled, making it difficult to spot items, find clues and solve a crime scene. Gameplay can be as perplexing an X-files case.
As a special agent, you will have to investigate bizarre cases, find clues, collect evidence and examine it. There are also several cool mini-games like cracking codes, finding items and using them on other objects and exciting jigsaw puzzles.
The most interesting part of this game is dialogues. Your conversations with your colleagues or an interrogation with a suspect will force you make crucial decisions, which may affect the entire the outcome of a case. The game tests your moral alignment and then displays the decisions you made, your beliefs, whether you are a skeptic who does not believe in extraterrestrials or a staunch believer and presents everything in a neat little section called “Prologue Statistics”. This page appears after closure, showing whether you and other players are on the same page. So if you have chosen to arrest Mark in the first case, you will probably be in minority as only 40 percent players decided to save his son.
As you solve crime scenes, interrogate suspects and talk to various characters, you will get points for your choices. These points will add to your stats, giving a clear picture on whether you a skeptic or a believer, a humanist or xenocentric. This new gameplay feature, to me, is one of the best aspects of X-Files: Deep State. There are several more, but I know you will be more interested to know how to get extra cash, energy and eager to learn how to open lockers or which booster will help you complete a scene. Well, check out our useful tips, hints and tricks:
1. How to Find Objects Quickly to Get More Points
You can try this trick on scenes that don’t have any time limit. Do this when you have just begun playing a new scene. When the game starts, mentally note down the list of objects that are displayed on the bottom of the screen. Don’t tap on an object until you find all of them.
3. Time Freeze: You can find Time Freeze in time-based challenges. With this booster activated, the timer decreases 2 times slower than usual, giving you more time to look for clues and search objects.
4. Combo Freeze Booster: With this booster activated, you can relax as the combo or score multiplier bar slows down. Using this booster, you will still be able to score more points despite being a little slower in finding successive objects. It will show up before a time based hidden object scene.
5. Long Press Objects to Know How They Look Like
Are you finding is hard to spot objects in a crime scene? Don’t worry. There’s a way to know how an object looks like. Just tap and hold the replica of the object in the items list shown on the bottom of the screen. It will take a few seconds before the image of the object appears above its replica. You can also long press on jumbled words in “Pro” scenes.
6. How to Open Secret Lockers
Noticed that tiny locker bar on the bottom of the screen as soon as the hidden object scene ends? You will have to fill the bar to collect a secret or confidential locker. The bar fills little by little after every scene. Even if you lose, the bar will fill up a bit. So keep solving scenes if you want to get a locker.
You will receive prizes such as energy items, boosters or cash when you open a locker. To open one, you will need a key, which can be found in a random hidden object scene. You can also trade stars with a key, but this option will be available once you complete the second case – “Trust No 1”. You must earn 3 stars and exchange them with a secret key, which can be used to open a secret locker. Replay all scenes to collect stars.
When you collect a locker, tap the plus sign beside your cash or energy status and then tap the “lockers” tab. Use in-game cash to buy one if you don’t have a key. You can earn lots of cash by playing old cases again. You also get cash when you solve a hidden object scene. Make sure you purchase a locker as soon as collect it.
