What happened to your best friend?

A new, eerie Hidden Object Adventure game from G5 Entertainment and Artifex Mundi, 9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek, has arrived on the Mac App Store today.

In the game, your closest friend, the journalist Helen Hunter, has traveled to the coastal town of Serpent Creek in order to report on the Serpent Festival. Unfortunately she has vanished, and the very last phone call that she had made was to you. You are a paranormal PI, and Helen had wanted your opinions on several frightening things that she had discovered, urging you to come to Serpent Creek immediately.

Worried for your friend, you grant her wish and head to the town. Upon arriving, you find a humanoid, snake-like creature, proving to you that Helen’s fears weren’t groundless. You soon discover that the town’s streets are literally crawling with snakes as violent tremors rock the area. To make matters even worse, nobody in the town seems to remember your friend.

The game promises a variety of mysterious locations and challenging puzzles for you to piece together as you struggle to unravel the mystery of what happened to your best friend. Will you be able to save her?