Twin Mind: Ghost Hunter Collector’s Edition by Domini Games is a spooky hidden objects game for the Nintendo Switch, just in time for Halloween. It is available now on the Nintendo Shop. You switch between playing as one of two twins, the brother a cop investigator and the sister an occult spiritualist. You change between their methods and inventories through each area of the game and work through puzzles. Together, this duo use their respective investigative techniques to solve mysteries.

While this game had an interesting premise, the awful controls and lagging made this game ultimately unplayable. Cutscenes became so slow that skipping them was the only option, leading to a lot of confusing situations with zero context because of said skipping. The audio being out of sync was excusable, as well as the low-res graphics in cutscenes.

Despite these failings, I had intended to play the game all the way through until there was one issue I could not excuse. An entire area failed to load. The black screen with only the HUD along the bottom persisted even after closing and relaunching the game. Objects were still interactable despite not being visible but this was clearly too much to ask for any player to stubborn their way through.

I would like to make it very clear here that this review is for the Switch version. This game is available on many platforms and I cannot say anything about any other than the Switch. The virtual cursor option for Twin Minds: Ghost Hunter led me to believe this game was for desktops only, considering it was the only reasonable way to play. I was shocked to find that this game is also available for Mobile, because using the Switch’s touchscreen turned out to be the worst way to play.

In regards to things other than the damning issues in this game, the puzzles were quite good. The difficulty levels allowed for either a much harder challenge or a breezy hint-ful walk in the park. The hints were also well-balanced because they did not simply tell you the solution and instead pointed you in the right direction. By far the best feature was the option to substitute the Find the Hidden Objects sections with a Match-Three game instead.

Quite frankly, this will always be in the back of my head from now on whenever I get stuck searching for yet another damn hairbrush in other Hidden Object games. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this game in good conscience. Until a lot of these game breaking bugs are resolved, I cannot justify the $14.99 USD price for Twin Mind: Ghost Hunter Collector’s Edition.