Buy The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus 2

I recommend this game if you like puzzle, object finding games.
Game itself is very enjoyable

This game's not terrible, but its downsides weight it down too much for me.

GOOD: The game looks pretty good in general. I think the music's fine, too - it's relaxing. The game also has a nice configuration menu, with a bunch of options regarding the gameplay.

MEH: The game in general is a bit too easy. It's not that long, and has no replayability.

BAD: The voice acting for the main character is really bad, and you'll hear her often, considering she's the protagonist. The antagonist doesn't feel threatening, as the protagonist doesn't seem to care. The story isn't particularly good either. A big part of the game feels like you're just searching for whatever random MacGuffin someone wants. The ending is a bit of a letdown - it leaves a bunch of questions unanswered.

Non-protagonist voice acting highlight: "Yay, I'm going to cut more boxes!"

Good game

On the whole, I can't overly recommend this game. I found it was too quick to complete, the story was rather bland, and the female protagonist's voice acting was atrocious. As a puzzle game itself, it was fine, but it was let down by poor execution.

In a nutshell:
Okay as an introduction to the genre, but no more than that. Not worth full price.
Nice art, watered-down story, easy puzzles/HOGs/achievements, ~2 hours to 100%.
If bad voice acting ruins a game for you, avoid this one. Even if you don't normally mind bad VOs, it's awful enough here to distract from the actual gameplay.

I can usually look past bland or uninspired voice acting in HOPAs (Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure), and I seem to have a higher tolerance for it based on complaints I've read about other games. But the girl who recorded the protagonist's lines is atrocious. It reminded me of a school kid reciting a piece of literature in class with a stilted tone and improper enunciation. Or someone with no personality and running on 1 hour of sleep reading a fairy tale to children in a really. deliberate. way. so the kids! understand? every. word. Either way, whatever you can imagine, this girl's performance is worse. And while you may think that some voice acting can be so bad it's funny, this is not the funny-bad kind. It's painful-bad. I visibly cringed at many points.

The guy who does the ghost's voice is only marginally better, but the main character alone is distracting enough to detract from enjoyment of the overall game, which I honestly didn't think was even possible. So if you do decide to try this out, do yourself a favor and turn off the voice overs. Or all the sounds, quite frankly. The music is boring and SFX are nothing special. The "ding!" noise when you try to use the wrong item somewhere is particularly out of place and annoying.

The story itself is uninteresting. Some guy made a machine having to do with dreams (what it actually does is never really explained), some other guy died in the process, a ghost is somehow keeping people in a trance (also never explained), all over a woman you know nothing about. It's up to you as some random detective chick to play "collect them all" with crystals to unlock "the final door" (TV Tropes, anyone?). Even the last cutscene doesn't explain anything, and it cuts off after a couple of unneeded and cheesy lines. It all just serves as a weak and shallow reason to run around unlocking cabinets and breaking into safes.

The writing and dialogue are okay, save for a couple of lines that seemed like a failed attempt at humor (like the odd "collectibles with an 'i'" quip). I didn't spot any spelling mistakes or ESL grammar errors. But all that doesn't matter much when the person reading the lines makes it sound like it's written badly. I think with a better voice actress the story might have been a little more engaging.

The psychic crystal aspect was underutilized. It could have been a way more interesting exposition hook than it was.

The puzzles are unimpressive. You could probably 'button mash' and solve most of them by sheer accident. The only ones that actually require a bit of thinking are the backyard gate lock and the wall safe in the hotel. Most everything else all but shoves the solution in your face.

The hidden object scenes are boring, to say the least. Only one or two objects were mildly challenging to find, and even objects that require multiple-steps to reveal/complete were pretty simple. About a third of the scenes are fragmented object or "find [silhouette] then use it to find [another silhouette]" types.

There are hidden collectibles in the form of Eye of Horus symbols in every screen. They aren't directly indicated (other than the 1st one in the tutorial), but there's a symbol on the toolbar that's highlighted if you haven't found one in that location yet. It's an interesting idea, but simplifies it a bit much for such a short game. I could see the mechanic being far more useful for a longer game with more varied or difficult collectibles.
NOTE: Try to find the symbol as the very first thing you do in a new scene, because when you complete the objectives in an area (house, mansion, office, hotel) the game suddenly plunks you in the next location via the map with no option to close it or go back.

The multitool was a good idea, but I wish they made it part of the toolbar instead of an item you had to scroll through your inventory to find when needed.

For 100% junkies, this is a good one to up your % score. The game practically throws achievements at you just for moving around. Don't get me wrong - I like achievement hunting too, but not when I see 2 or 3 pop up at once within literally <1 minute of playing, and I have no idea what I just did other than drag something onto the screen.

If you can get past the painful voice acting (or just turn the sound off), Dreamatorium 2 is a decent "beginner's" HOPA. It's short, easy, and gives a mild taste of the genre. Unfortunately it errs on the side of "the player might be an idiot" with puzzle design/setup, so don't look for any brain-busters here. It also has zero replay value, so if you still want to try it out I would wait until it's at least 75% off or in a bundle. The quality and length of the experience is not worth the full asking price.

The game that proves that one lousy voice actress can ruin an entire game.

Ok, not just that, but holy hearts that was bad. I'm usually not one to notice or be too picky about voices but this girl must have just gotten out of bed with a hefty hangover and had one readthrough for all the lines. The other voices are also not very good , and the standard isn't overly high with these kind of games.

The game follows a paranormal investigator (or soemthing) lookign for a missing girl and unraveling a story about a ghost on the way there.Really nothing special and if you bother to pay half an attention to the story in the pictures and writing you find during the game, it doesn't take long to guess the ending. For some reason this game is #2, the first one is not on steam.

The puzzles are not very hard; some times yo don't even have to do things in the right order for it to work out.

The game also throws you into a new location of the map with no warning, so igf you missed some collectibles in the earlier locations, you have to replay the game from the start. My game time is therefore one and a half playthrough of the game or so. Most other achievements are achieved in one playthrough as long as you don't skip puzzles.

TLDR; there are way better games in this genre. Buy on a big discount if you need it for a collection or something.

The voice actors in this game totally killed it for me. The female detective voice is so monotonous and bland!

A very short, especially casual point-and-click adventure, "featuring" a ridiculously dialed-in performance, and yet I'm giving it a thumbs up because it's fun enough. Get it only if it's very cheap.

There's not much to do in this game, and the few puzzles are trivial. But what makes this game unfortunately "special" is its unbelievably terrible voice acting. The protagonist's actor obviously never had an acting lesson in her life, and probably toked up quite a bit before coming to the studio, where she had to read the script for the first time and only do one take. It's oddly charming, in a totally fourth-wall-breaking way. Add an utterly abysmal script and nonsensical story, and you're in for quite a ride.

Otherwise, many thanks to the devs for supporting Linux!