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  • Infinite Realms Review
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    Infinite Realms Review

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    Infinite Realms takes the strategy gameplay formula used by Travian games (think Kingdoms of Camelot) and applies a sci-fi theme to it. So instead of trying to build farms to build your peasants, you're generating food rations so you can feed your space peasants. The game's visual design takes a lot of cues from popular sci-fi console games like Mass Effect, but the artwork is excellent and the game itself is beautiful to look at, full of visually distinct buildings and intricate animations. Even parts of the GUI are attractive.
  • Penguin World Review
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    Penguin World is a game that goes beyond "novel." It's honestly a bit strange, by Facebook or anyone else's standards. The basic concept is that you're a penguin and apparently what penguins do all day is forage for lost pottery in the Arctic, or possibly Antarctic, wilderness while fighting off polar bears. The game plays like a novel fusion of treasure hunting games like Treasure Isle and the Club Penguin virtual world for kids. The game might be intended more for children than adults, though it's a little hard to tell at times.
  • Kingdoms of Camelot Review
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    Kingdoms of Camelot Review

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    Kingdoms of Camelothas lead the charge to bring deeper gameplay to games on Facebook. It's effectively Kabam's flagship game, despite featuring the sort of complex grand strategy that people associate with boxed retail games. The new Winter Court expansion adds new content for advanced players who've built up enough power and resources to found their sixth in-game city. Story-wise, the update introduces the "twilight of Camelot" story material from the legends, including characters like Morgan Le Fay and Mordred. Visually, the update introduces Kingdoms of Camelot's first set of new building icons, to match the update's wintery theme.
  • Pirates Saga Review
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    Pirates Saga Review

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    There are a lot of pirate-themed games on Facebook, but these games have an alarming tendency to not really be about pirates. They're actually about managing a business or restoring antiques and just happen to tell you that you're doing this because you're a pirate. There's something baffling and disappointing about that. Pirates sail around fighting people and looting treasures. Pirates Saga is possibly the first pirate-themed game on Facebook that actually lets you engage in these classic pirate activities.
  • Magic Mall Preview
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    Magic Mall is a take on the "mall management" sub-genre of the "business" sub-genre of the "management sim" sub-genre. If you have ever specifically wanted to design your own mall, this is definitely a game for you. While Magic Mall is still early in its development cycle, it offers a clear gameplay progression where you begin with a drab, grey mall and slowly develop it into a lively, brightly-colored mall full of decorations. Magic Mall is a low-stress game where failure is nearly impossible, making it something ideally played to relax.
  • My Shops Review
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    My Shops Review

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    There's an endless variety of business management sims to play on Facebook, so it's quite an achievement when a developer comes up with a genuinely novel twist on the formula. My Shops has you trying to manage an ever-increasing variety of shops located on a single avenue, instead of endlessly micromanaging a single store. This is a very intuitive way to change up the formula, but surprisingly, there's very little on Facebook right now that really plays the way My Shops does. Some elements of typical timer-driven sim play are there, but there's also a lot of strategy and even some action.
  • Monster Galaxy Review
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    Monster Galaxy Review

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    Monster Galaxy is something unusual and ambitious for Facebook, an attempt to create a clone of Nintendo's extraordinarily deep Pokemon RPGs that's friendly to social gameplay. While there are very few true social mechanics in Monster Galaxy, the game is largely successful at bringing the appeal of monster training and collecting games into something you can play for free on Facebook. The game features 120 distinct monsters to battle and capture, without any of the "spend money if you want this rare monster!" shenanigans you might expect.
  • MilMo Review
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    MilMo Review

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    There's been much speculation about when, or if, massively multiplayer games (MMOs) would start taking over Facebook. Most popular Facebook games use a lot of MMO-like mechanics like quests, experience levels, and avatar customization, after all. To date, what seems to hold the genre back is that it really needs 3D graphics to work well, but 3D visuals on Facebook inevitably seem to suffer intolerable load time problems. This is unfortunately the case for MilMo, but it's one of the few MMOs that's worth sitting through the load screens.