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  • Treasure Quest HD Review
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    Treasure Quest HD Review

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    For a brief time after Treasure Isle's initial flush of glory, treasure hunting games all but choked Facebook. Now you see them less frequently, which makes seeing a fresh take on the genre like Treasure Quest HD all the more special. Treasure Quest HD combines the basic play mechanics of a Facebook treasure hunt game with the trappings of RPGs. So instead of yet another greedy island-dweller, in Treasure Quest HD you play as a wizard that's illuminating areas of a mysterious map. There are the typical gates to unlock with brightly-colored crystals, but also monsters to defeat with magic spells, NPCs to help, and quests to fulfill.
  • Toy Village Review
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    Toy Village Review

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    Casual gamers never tire of building cities or planting crops in an increasingly fanciful array of environments. Glu Games is quite happy to feed mobile gamers hungry for more city builders with Toy Village, a fairly basic city building game with a novel look and premise. In Toy Village, you're building a city for toy characters, so everything has a whimsical look right out of Babes in Toyland or Toy Story. Your main NPC mascot is Patch, a fluffy stuffed dog, and the buildings you erect distinctly look and feel like they've been assembled from colorful plastic.
  • Rise of Olympia Review
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    Rise of Olympia Review

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    Slowly but surely, a sense of originality is creeping into Facebook gaming. A few years ago, a game like Rise of Olympia would've been nothing more than a Travian clone. Instead, Hoolai has made a game that takes the old Travian formula and radically simplifies it down into something more digestible and RPG-like. In Rise of Olympia, you ally with one of the three Greek gods vying for the throne of Olympus, build a city, and wage war against other players. There are also story missions that let your army battle NPC foes.
  • Mahjongg Dimensions Deluxe: Tiles in Time Review
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    Mahjongg Dimensions Deluxe: Tiles in Time Review

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    Mahjong Dimensions Deluxe: Tiles in Time takes the basic concept of the first Mahjong Dimensions and expands it into a game that will be a treat for PC mahjong fans. WhereMahjong Dimensions was basically Mahjong Blitz, Tiles in Time challenges you to run a gauntlet of mahjong patterns in order to "unlock" an object that's been lost in time. You begin searching for dinosaurs, then move on to other period-appropriate objects as you travel into eras like Ancient Egypt, Feudal Japan, and (eventually) the future.
  • Ashtaria Review
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    Ashtaria Review

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    Facebook gaming has changed in many ways over the years, but one thing has been constant: most games are clones of other games. Any genre that gets popular always spawns a thousand clones, sometimes with nearly identical interfaces. Some older Facebook genres like the text RPG are starting to evolve, though, and Ashtaria is a good representation of this. Ashtaria in terms of gameplay is definitely a descendant of your basic Mafia Wars style text RPG, but its look and feel is very different. You actually have to play this one for awhile before it starts to feel familiar.
  • My Kitty Review
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    My Kitty Review

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    Flash back to about five years ago, and the then-new Nintendo DS's Nintendogs game was burning up sales charts and making Nintendo money hand over fist. It inspired a wide array of mobile game clones, most inferior but all cheaper, and usually more conducive to quick play. One of the launch titles for Nintendo's struggling 3DS portable system is a game called Nintendogs + Cats that hasn't made quite the same splash as the original, but does introduce the long-requested feature of letting players raise a virtual kitten. Kemco's My Kitty appears to be a pre-emptive clone of Nintendogs + Cats, in anticipation of a massive hit that never quite came together.
  • Survivor World Review
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    Survivor World Review

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    The actual social aspect of social games is often discussed frightfully little in social game reviews. This is because most social games aren't really social at all, at least in the sense of having you play them with other people actively. To help keep games playable by solo players who might not have a lot of friends, most developers end up making the social aspect of a game fixated on bonuses like gifts or on obtaining items that can be otherwise bought. This trend in game design makes Grab Games's Survivor World noteworthy, as it is a clear attempt at making a truly social game that only solo players with deep pockets could get far in by themselves.
  • Golden Age Review
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    Golden Age Review

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    One of the oldest browser-based games was a casual strategy game called Travian that is, these days, famous largely for the number of times it's been successfully cloned. On Facebook, for instance, the top Travian clone is probably Kingdoms of Camelot. And its developer, Kabam, publishes an entire line of Travian clones that use different artwork themes and gameplay tweaks. Golden Age is best understood as Aeria Games's own Travian clone, distinguished by its unusually detailed sprites and an interesting "dungeon" mechanic that makes combat a bit more memorable. Otherwise, it's like every other Travian-style strategy game you've ever played.