| Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer(s) | Activision |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Series | Santa Fe Mysteries |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Macintosh, Windows |
| Release | 1997 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground is a video game, the second in the Santa Fe Mysteries series after The Elk Moon Murder .
In Sacred Ground, the wife of a local businessman is kidnapped.
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| PC Games | C [1] |
| Computer Games Strategy Plus |   [2] |
| CNET Gamecenter |  [3] |
The game received reviews ranging from negative to positive. JustAdventure thought the game was a "slight improvement" over The Elk Moon Murders, while noting "[it] is not entirely easy to classify - somewhere between an interactive movie and an adventure game". [4] In a 2001 retrospective, Programmer In Black wrote "For an older game, the game play here holds up well." [5] Just Adventure said "There is one thing that [the game] absolutely, positively isn't: unique". [6] Allgame gave Sacred Ground 2.5 stars out of 5. [7] Tekno Magazine noted the annoyance of switching between the game's two CDs when moving back and forth between different locations. [8] PC Player felt the title was a missed opportunity to build on the world created in the predecessor. [9] [10] MacGamer thought the title was serviceable in the genre of interactive murder mysteries though admitted it was not revolutionary in any way. [11] The Adrenaline Vault praised the immersive characters and the atmospheric music. [12]
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