What is Night Focus?
Embrace the quiet night to focus and test your detective skills! Night Focus is a limited-time event that lets you discover story chapters from a whole new perspective. Sharpen your senses, win rounds to build a win streak, and progress faster than ever through the scenes while earning amazing rewards along the way!
How do I unlock Night Focus?
Night Focus becomes available once you've reached Chapter 9, Scene 1.
How do I join Night Focus?
Night Focus is an opt-in event. When it becomes available, you'll see a pop-up when you enter the Scene Browser. Here you can decide to join the event, not participate in the event, or close the pop-up for now.
When you activate the event, you're good to go.
If you closed the pop-up but want to join the event later, no problem! You can bring the pop-up back anytime by doing either of the following:
Tapping the event button in the Scene Browser
Playing your latest scene
What happens if I choose not to participate in Night Focus?
If you choose not to participate in the current Night Focus event via the pop-up, the event will be over for you. You can play your latest scenes as usual. However, if you change your mind later, you won't be able to join the current event anymore and will have to wait for a future Night Focus event to start. So, be really certain that you don't want to give Night Focus a go.
Tip: Participating in Night Focus lets you make faster progress and earn additional rewards compared to standard play. If you're unsure whether Night Focus is for you, simply give it a try. You can decide to leave the event at any time.
I chose to not participate in Night Focus this time. Can I still join the event in the future?
Don't worry! You haven't missed out forever. As soon as a new Night Focus event starts, you'll get another chance to join in the fun!
How long does Night Focus last, and what happens if I join late?
Every Night Focus runs for a set amount of time, shown in the countdown at the top of the event pop-up.
Important: That countdown starts when the event begins, not when you activate it. You can still progress faster and get additional rewards if you join late. However, joining as soon as possible lets you maximize the advantages.
Which of my scenes are playable in Night Focus?
When Night Focus starts, it takes the newest scene you're currently working on and switches it to Night Focus mode--along with every additional scene you unlock during the Night Focus event.
Scenes you've already mastered, and any scene earlier in the story, are untouched. You can still play these while Night Focus is activated, but in those scenes you will play in regular hidden object mode instead of Night Focus mode. When you are playing these scenes, your streak will not apply and the streak level won't change.
How does Night Focus gameplay work?
Night Focus offers a special hidden object game mode experience unique to the event. Unlike the regular Hidden Object Scene gameplay for chapters, this experience comes with a twist: Every object you collect will give you some of your time back!
Across the top of the screen, you'll find a bar that drains steadily but fills back up when you find an object. If you manage to fill the bar back up completely, you will trigger Hyperfocus, which grants you extra points!
If you successfully find all hidden objects before the bar drains, your win streak will increase, boosting your multiplier and event progress.
What happens if my bar fully drains during a round?
Once the bar fully drains, you'll see a screen where you can either use Diamonds to completely refill your timer and get a free hint for the rest of the round, or end the round.
If you give up, you'll still earn a score for all hidden objects you found in that round, and all rewards that you picked up will be yours to keep as well. However, your win streak resets.
How do hints work in Night Focus?
Hints work a little differently here than in regular Hidden Object Scenes. They don't recharge during a Night Focus round. Instead, you occasionally find them when you pick up a hidden object, and you have the rest of the round to use them.
Otherwise, you can tap the hint icon when you have no hint available, and a tooltip will open offering you the option to get a hint with Diamonds. Again, any hint you find or acquire can only be used during that specific round.
Please note that if you don't have enough Diamonds, the hint icon will appear grayed out, and you won't be able to acquire more Diamonds during the round. So, if you want to use this option, make sure you have enough Diamonds available before entering a Night Focus round.
You also receive a hint when you use Diamonds to extend your time to complete a Night Focus round.
Best of all: unlike in regular Hidden Object Scenes, using a hint won't cost you a PERFECT in Night Focus.
What counts as a "PERFECT" round in Night Focus?
The rules for earning a PERFECT when Night Focus is activated differ a bit from regular hidden object rounds. In Night Focus, you'll earn a PERFECT if you:
Win the round, and
Don't miss a tap, and
Trigger Hyperfocus at least once
This means that using hints in Night Focus rounds won't prevent you from earning a PERFECT score. So, don't hesitate to use them whenever you are in a pickle!
What is a win streak?
Your win streak is what makes Night Focus really pay off. Win a round, and you level up your streak:
The streak will reward you in two ways: with the Focus Points you collect for that win and a multiplier applied to the round. The higher you climb, the more of both you get, which means faster scene progress, more Coins, and quicker milestone rewards.
A few facts worth knowing:
Losing or giving up a round resets your win streak.
Playing a regular Hidden Object Scene during Night Focus neither builds your streak nor breaks it; those rounds simply don't affect it.
Reached the top level? Keep winning, and you'll keep earning that top level's Focus Points and multiplier for every additional win.
How do I earn rewards during Night Focus?
Playing Night Focus rounds is fun, helps you progress faster, and earns you extra rewards! Every Night Focus round you win awards you Focus Points. The exact number depends on how much you have leveled up your streak. Those points will advance your progress in the Night Focus event.
You earn rewards when you reach a milestone in the Night Focus progression, and when you successfully complete the event, you receive the Grand Prize. In both cases, the event button will display a notification, so you can jump in and claim your reward.
The Coins you receive at the end of each round get a lift too, so this faster Star progress will also result in more Coins.
Of course, you'll still get all the rewards that you collected during hidden object gameplay--even if you don't manage to find all the hidden objects before time runs out.
Do Night Focus rounds count toward my Help Wanted, Missions, and Fairground Fortune tasks?
Yes, for the most part, you can still make progress on those tasks while playing Night Focus instead of regular gameplay rounds.
However, please note that Night Focus rounds don't have a combo meter, so to progress with combo-related tasks, you'll need to play regular Hidden Object Scenes. You don't need to opt out of the Night Focus event to do this; simply play rounds in previous or already mastered Hidden Object Scenes.
Does Night Focus mode affect my leaderboards or achievements?
No. Night Focus scores are kept separate from the rest of the game:
Night Focus scores never appear on a scene's hidden object leaderboard, and the leaderboard isn't shown at the end of a Night Focus round.
Night Focus rounds don't count toward your high score or Google Play achievements.
To keep things fair, your Night Focus score won't be stored as your scene's regular high score.
Can I still use Star Boosters and watch video ads during Night Focus?
Star Boosters: The Energy discount works as normal when Night Focus is activated, and you also get the extra Energy from using a Star Booster. However, the score bonus that a Star Booster usually gives does not apply to Night Focus rounds.
Video ads: Yes! You can still watch ads to reduce the Energy used for both regular hidden object rounds as well as Night Focus rounds.
Can I leave a Night Focus event?
Yes, you can leave the event at any time. To do so, open the event pop-up from the Scene Browser and tap "Leave the Event." You'll get a confirmation pop-up ("Are you sure?") first, showing exactly what you'd be giving up, because leaving is final. Here's what happens once you leave:
You keep every reward and all the progress you've earned so far.
You stop earning Night Focus rewards from that point on.
The win streak will no longer apply.
Be sure you really want to leave the Night Focus event before you do so, since you can't rejoin it afterward--a later event, yes, but not this particular one.
What happens when Night Focus ends?
When the event clock runs out, there's a short cooldown period during which you can still claim anything you've unlocked but haven't collected. Just open the Scene Browser and your outstanding rewards will be handed over.
Once the cooldown is over, any unclaimed rewards are lost, and the event--along with Night Focus mode--will disappear.
Why is it only available to some players?
We're rolling out the feature gradually to ensure everything works smoothly and to gather feedback. This helps us improve the experience before a wider release.
When will it be available to everyone?
We're working hard to refine the feature during this test phase. If all goes well, we plan to make the feature available to more players in the near future. Stay tuned!