With the price of groceries going up by the minute, Supermarket Mania offers a great deal in keeping you busy for hours avoiding a trip to the grocery store. Like the coffee shop on every corner, Torg has supermarkets all over town giving Nikki little choice but to go work there as a stocker. Nikki doesn’t […]
I love games where they make me feel part of the story by letting me interact with the scene and its objects. Such stories contain puzzles where anything goes and you find them in Azada, Dream Chronicles, and Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of Spooky Manor. Artfully illustrated Natalie Brooks - Secrets of Treasure House […]
Casual gamers who enjoyed blockbuster Dream Chronicles will be excited to see the Faye returns for another adventure. In the previous episode, Faye went on a quest to find her husband, Fidget. She reached him only to find the sneaky Liliith, Fairy Queen of Dreams, take him away again. To find her husband, Faye must […]
I’m trying with all my might to resist saying this, but my willpower went on vacation today. Hyperballoid 2: Time Rider ain’t your daddy’s (or mommy’s for that matter as I played video games as a kid) breakout game. How we’ve come a long way from Breakout and other bland brick breaking games. Peggle first convinced […]
I had a blast playing Build-A-Lot and couldn’t believe it when I heard another was on its way. The game even hooked my “rarely plays games” husband. The game was innovative and original. So how do you make a great game better? It’s possible as Build-A-Lot 2: Town of the Year proves it. The real estate […]
Another gardening game blooms that expects players to do more than just plant and grow crops. Bloom Busters mashes SIM and business management together to create a little garden of horrors. Monsters sprout from underground and garden produces ginormous crops. Sharing hobbies can bring two people closer together as gardeners Jimmy and Jessie are in love […]
7 Wonders of the Ancient World receives a sequel in 7 Wonders II, which comes with new wonders. The game takes 400-plus years to build — by making match threes — seven wonders plus one surprise wonder except we know game time doesn’t compare to real-life. Unearth Stonehenge, The Colosseum, Taj Mahal, the Great Wall […]
Peggle clone Spring Up! takes on a gardening twist. This Breakout-style game starts with the ball at the top of the screen where players point and shoot in hopes of hitting as many like-colored pegs and bricks. That’s where the similarity to Peggle ends. Unless Spring Up! is for a child, stick with the stellar […]
Grow watermelons, cabbage, pumpkins, lemons, corn, sausage, bread. What?! Yes, I said sausage and bread. After all, the game is called Magic Seeds. At least, you don’t have to worry about consuming any fully loaded carb food — the food doesn’t pop out of the computer screen for tasting. Magic Seeds does not copy Alice Greenfingers […]
Popular game Slingo Quest returns for a different destination. In Slingo Quest Hawaii, the game takes on a (what else?) Hawaiian theme. In the bingo slash slot machine game, players try to match numbers in a row while earning power ups, jokers, tricks, and bonuses to help them along the way. Players travel from island to […]