Elementals: The Magic Key is a puzzle adventure game that has you solving a variety of logical puzzles in order to make your way through a fantasy world. You get to help Albert, an apprentice magician, as he tries to save his sister from an evil sorceror. It reminds me a little of the Dream Chronicles series. The story is a little jumbled, but the game is lots of fun.

Technically, this game could fall into the hidden object genre, but the focus seems to be more on adventuring. The game play is all about the puzzles. These include a checkers-type game, a few hidden object scenes, some inventory puzzles, a variety of puzzles that have you rearranging pieces so they fit properly, and even something like solitaire where you arrange cards in order. It's far to say that these puzzles are more involved than in most hidden object games. The hidden object scenes are simple, and usually involve finding objects of a certain type, like finding all the shards or scrolls in a particular scene. You get unlimited hints, and you can skip any puzzles that you don't like.

What I like most about this game are the graphics. There are lots of cool lighting effects, and the environments are very unique and not your stock-standard adventure game fare. It's also challenging.

Elementals: The Magic Key launches on Big Fish Games on  November 3, 2009. You can get a free  trial on Big  Fish by visiting the website below.