Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse

With the help of a fairy, the princess must rescue her people and restore the place to finally marry Prince Adam.

Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse is a hidden object game with adventure elements.

The main objective is to collect several key objects from the castle grounds, to solve puzzles and free the castle folk.

The castle can be explored in a typical point-and-click manner, where each location is represented by an static image of the scenery, and the player moves from room to room by clicking on the exit hotspots, usually placed over obvious and logical areas like doors and entrances.

Some portions of the building are locked, and can only be accessed after solving one of the puzzles.

The objects can be found laying around in the background, or in some separate close-up views of the scenery.

These zoom windows show another angle of the scene, with a list of objects to be found and collected at the bottom.

Some of the collected items are stored in the inventory slots, from where they can be dragged and dropped on puzzles and other portions of the screen to interact with the environment.

Mirror shards have to be inserted in one of the empty frames at the grand hall, and reassembled as jigsaw puzzles to liberate one of the captive souls.

The rescued character usually unlocks a castle passage as a reward.

Each room has several puzzles that have to be solved to lift the curse and move to the next place.

Some of the puzzles are self-contained mechanisms that can be solved through direct manipulation.

Others block access to other parts of the castle, and require the use of inventory objects.

After solving all the pending puzzles, the room is restored to its pristine condition.

One unique feature is the fairy assistant.

Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse for Nintendo DS is currently worth €14.80 loose, €4.90 complete in box, and €9.62 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning it trades hands regularly and isn't considered particularly rare.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse, loose is €14.80 and CIB is €4.90 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.

The PAL version of Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse is currently worth €14.80 loose, versus €17.45 for NTSC-U. Regional price differences usually come down to print run size and regional collector demand.