Rise of Pico – A Forgotten Hill Tale – the butler catches a fugitive from the laboratory
You play the butler of the Hofmeier family. The owner gives an order: a creature named Pico has escaped from his laboratory, and he needs to be returned to his cage. It won't be possible to chase him right away. The house is locked, and almost all the time is spent opening the rooms. Therefore, the main activity here is searching for objects and door keys, and not chasing.
Rise of Pico is a standalone story within the Forgotten Hill Tales series. It is not necessary to go through it after chapters like Forgotten Hill The Wardrobe – Chapter 1 – Other Friends: the plot is closed on itself. Forgotten Hill Disillusion: The Library is another independent part of the series.
How the house opens
You click around the room, zoom in on the details and take away everything you can carry. The items are added to your inventory, and then you try to apply them to a door, cabinet or mechanism. One item found usually opens up one new room, which then provides the next clue.
Disc with faces and order of skulls
The riddles here are based on observation, not calculations. The colored skulls need to be placed in the correct order. The wooden disk with human faces rotates, and its parts must be combined. A separate task involves a matchbox. The drawing is dark and unpleasant in places.