On a quest to recover the Scepter of Zeus for The Museum of Lost Secrets, archeologist and adventurer Samantha Swift stumbles upon one of the greatest archeological finds of all time! Unfortunately, she also runs into greedy treasure hunter Ravena Stryker.
After 15 hours of clicking on things, I have successfully defeated Samantha Swift and her plan to obtain the powers of Athena for nefarious purposes
0 found this helpful, 2026-05-07
Not recommended1 hrs played
Such a boring game. I will never play this ever again in my life time.
11 found this helpful, 2026-06-05
Recommended6 hrs played
This is one of those games where you sit around the TV with your family and play through a few scenes each night. It's basically a mixture of "find the listed objects scattered in the scene" with some mild puzzle games, with a straightforward plot heavily inspired by a certain movie about a whip-toting archaeologist. The art is cartoony, which made finding most of the objects in the scene a pretty simple exercise as...
26 found this helpful, 2014-01-03
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Recommended
3 hrs played
Not a great game but it's ok.
Pros:
- I found no bugs (Win 7 64bit)
- The game is neatly split into chapters
- There's a couple of different puzzles here and there
- Cheaply bundled
Cons:
- Some thin elements require spam clicking to get them
- Medium production values: drawing is not great, no voice acting
- Several reports of bugs
- No achievements (if you care for those)
9 found this helpful, 2017-09-25
Not recommended3 hrs played
This one is a hard one. On one hand it is a ok old school hidden object game where each scene is a just a pure HOS or a minigame. On the other hand so many people have issues running the game (myself included both on Windows and with Proton on Linux) and the developers haven't bothered updating the game since 2014.
I got it more or less to work with Proton 7.0-3 (older versions wouldn't work for me), but it still...
6 found this helpful, 2022-08-03
Recommended5 hrs played
Samantha Swift gives me odd fond feelings of nostalgia of the late 90s-2000s era. When a lot of games were all about travelling the world, uncovering clues, ancient mysteries, and hunting for treasure; it gives me memories of Broken Sword, Adventures of Tintin, Carmen Sandiego, and Indiana Jones. The art is very lovely, it has those 2000s type comic books-feel too like WITCH and Duck Tales.
Pros:
> Fun, simple story...
9 found this helpful, 2017-07-18
Not recommended0 hrs played
The price is an insult for this old game which runs as 800x600 and is nothing but a string of hidden object scenes one after another. Barely a low-rate story tying these scenes together.
Only recommended for under a dollar in sales and only if your desperate to play a HOG without any puzzles or good story. The pictures are nice enough, music is mediocre.
8 found this helpful, 2018-05-27
Recommended2 hrs played
Short version: 64%
Hidden Roses of Athena is an old hidden object game with a cute visual style and a typical Saturday morning cartoon treasure hunt adventure storyline.
Long version:
I’ll be blunt: the existence of this game on Steam is a mystery to me. Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena is the first entry in a hidden object game series that started in late 2008—an age where hidden object games were a...
20 found this helpful, 2017-04-15
Recommended4 hrs played
This is a very old game which doesn't have some of the gameplay conveniences that later Hidden Object games implemented (nor does it have any of the point & clicking activity, it's 95% hidden objects, yet it's not bothersome, I guess I was in the mood for some quiet clicking.)
Still, this Indy/Lara wannabe is pretty fun, and I really enjoyed her adventures and embraced the silliness and cliché quests. Yes, I have a...
