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  • AdvenChewers Review
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    • iOS
    AdvenChewers Review

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    As we have all learned from cartoons, one can easily float into the air by blowing a really big bubble with some extra sticky bubblegum. The hero of AdvenChewers uses this to his advantage to float and fly across stage after stage of endless running action. Collect coins, rescue birds, and save your father before he's forced to serve the evil General!AdvenChewers features a shoestring storyline that involves a lot of steampunk machinations, an evil General bent on world domination or some such thing, and armadas of airships floating through the skies. It mostly serves as a convenient backdrop to put you in the shoes of an adventurer out to save the world. Bubblegum is the real star of the show, and it functions as the main gimmick keeping AdvenChewers entertaining."Tap the screen to jump, holding down for slightly longer leaps. While airborne, tap again to blow a bubble, holding the screen to float even higher. You can bobble up and down by keeping a good tapping rhythm going, but your bubble will eventually burst if you inflate it too far. Even bubblegum has its limits, you know.Each level in AdvenChewers features three missions you can complete to earn extra coins. For example, collect five mega coins, use special gum powers, or pick up hidden phoenix feathers that give you a temporary ride on the back of an invincible bird. Level design really encourages you to play, replay, and explore. Stages have multiple paths to check out, so it's not just jumping over holes and rescuing fowls. Look for coins hidden just off-screen, and don't be afraid to fly into the air to look for secrets. Phoenix feathers, mega coins, and other surprises often await the eager adventurer. Ahem, AdvenChewer.
  • Backyard Monsters: Unleashed Review
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    • iOS
    Backyard Monsters: Unleashed Review

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    What was once a Facebook game is now a self-contained mobile experience. Backyard Monsters: Unleashed from KIXEYE is an upgraded version of the Facebook combat simulation game Backyard Monsters. The game has made the transition to the portable world without losing anything, bringing iOS gamers one of the most organized, satisfying, and hilarious freemium strategy games around.Backyard Monsters: Unleashed's setup will be familiar to anyone who's played a combat strategy game in the past: run your village, build and upgrade buildings, raise an army, go forth and conquer. Your little piece of property is a backyard surrounded by greenery. By placing resource generators, defense and miscellaneous structures, you can turn your tiny village into a sprawling war factory. One that's nigh invulnerable from neighboring backyards' attacks!"To go from zero to hero, Backyard Monsters: Unleashed spreads currency requirements out across four different types of resources: sticks, stones, putty, and goo. The first two make enough sense, as both are used to build basic and advanced structures, respectively. Goo is needed to spawn monsters, and it also serves as a currency for entering battle. Putty is used to construct certain buildings as well as to unlock new monsters. From what we can gather, monsters are basically just carefully shaped piles of squishy goop that live in stick houses. Doesn't stop them from being fierce on the battlefield, though.In addition to the resources above, Backyard Monsters: Unleashed also features "shiny," the game's "hurry-up" currency, along with an optional in-app purchase of an additional builder to let you work on more projects simultaneously. All resources are earned through normal play and as post-combat spoils, but you can also refill them with a quick microtransaction.
  • Sunshine Bay Review
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    • iOS
    Sunshine Bay Review

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    Nothing like a seaside getaway! Too bad you're not here to soak up the rays. Sunshine Bay puts you in the managerial shoes at a resort where people come to kick back and relax. It's your job to make sure their basic needs are met, sending them on pleasure cruises and providing shopping centers to turn your piece of oceanfront property into a bustling economical juggernaut!Sunshine Bay is a serene building sim that only looks complex on the surface. The basic goal is to send visitors out on voyages and use the money you earn to expand your shoreline town. A bigger town, in turn, allows you to build bigger and better boats, creating a feedback loop that (hopefully) ends in a bustling, successful resort."Click on the icons at the bottom of the screen to add new structures or check your warehouse contents. When passengers arrive or boats need tending to, an alert appears above them on the map. Click, collect any icons that pop out, and then repeat! You should keep as many ships out to sea as your piers can support, so always have one eye on expansion while the other monitors potential passengers.  Much like any simulation game, you'll also receive missions to complete. They range from building orders to quick voyages out to sea. Quests earn you cash and increase your level ranking, giving you access to more buildings and boats.
  • Big Business Deluxe Review
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    • Android
    • iOS
    Big Business Deluxe Review

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    Big Business Deluxe is a follow-up to Game Insight's 2010 simulation title Big Business, a Facebook game that leaped to the mobile world with no shortage of applause. The sequel keeps the basic framework the same as the original, only now there's more of pretty much everything! And if you played Big Business, you know that's a very big deal.Big Business Deluxe can broadly be described as a city building game combined with Farm Frenzy and doled out in short, free-to-play doses. The game places heavy emphasis on creating structures that produce basic items that are then transformed into more complex (and more valuable) things. For example, growing grain on a farm, and then turning it into flour. Instead of simply tapping icons to make things and turn a profit, you have to concern yourself with all the little details of the city/business, such as where the warehouses are and what kind of trucks are running. It sounds like a mess, but it's strangely captivating once you get the hang of it."As you slowly gain money, unlock new buildings, and improve old ones, you get the wonderful honor of being able to expand your city's footprint by purchasing adjacent parcels of land. Not only does this give you additional space, but it can also uncover nice rewards in the form of new buildings, new quests, or other small rewards. It's a nice incentive to reach out and seize property as soon as you can!
  • Samurai Siege Review
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    • Android
    • iOS
    Samurai Siege Review

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    Samurai Siege enters a crowded field of mobile combat simulation games whose notable members include Clash of Clans and Greed for Glory. The basic concepts of building your village, strengthening defenses, improving structures, training troops, and sending them out to conquer other villages remains the same. Now, however, instead of dragons or medieval warriors, it's you and a bunch of samurai warriors! Not too shabby, if you ask us.Samurai Siege takes place in two main modes: village management and combat. The former allows you to place and upgrade new structures, such as marketplaces that generate coins or arrow towers to provide rudimentary defense. Here you also unlock troops and train them for battle, storing them in your training fields until it's time to head out and do some conquering. Combat pits you against well-defended enemy villages. Tap the screen to deploy troops, then sit back and watch the action. In the end, it's all about gaining more resources so you can beef up your village to become the ultimate samurai warrior town this side of Kyoto."Currencies are threefold in Samurai Siege. Coins, represented by green circles, are generated from markets, stored in vaults, and are used to build and upgraded defenses. Critically important is upgrading your castle so you can unlock more units and buildings, so never pass up an opportunity to rake in cash. Essence is earned from wells, held in storage tanks, and is used to build and upgrade certain structures. Diamonds are the basic "hurry-up" currency and can be spent to instantly build things, train troops, etc. All of these can be purchased via microtransactions, but you also earn coins and essence by sacking villages. As if you needed another excuse to go out and conquer things.
  • Flux Review
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    • Android
    Flux Review

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    Flux is the kind of puzzle game you can play during a quick coffee break, or sit down for a marathon session. It's simple to learn and easy to play, but getting to the point of mastery means learning to think ten steps ahead. This works in Flux's favor, however, as the game doesn't bother with power-ups or mini-games to distract you from the puzzles at hand.The overall goal of Flux is to create an uninterrupted flow from the source tile (purple and marked with an arrow) to the sink tile (purple and marked with a circle). To accomplish this, all you need to do is swipe green tiles to change the direction they're pointing, 90 degrees at a time. Tiles that enter the flow turn from orange to green, while immovable tiles stay blue, and tiles outside of the flow orange. You can only change green tiles and the source tile, which limits how many moves ahead you can work. It's essentially a simplified version of Pipe Mania, but all you have to worry about is which direction each tile is pointing."Flux comes with ten level packs that are unlocked successively by collecting a certain number of stars. Getting a perfect star score is an exercise in extreme precision, as you quickly lose stars by using more moves than the level allows. After you play through the initial ten packs you'll find yourself staring at an additional 375 puzzles waiting to be unleashed. Even with a perfect score on the previous stages you'll need to dip into Flux's in-app purchase system to nab extra stars. You can also get ten stars for free by sharing the game on Facebook, which isn't too bad.
  • Greed for Glory: War Strategy Review
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    • Android
    Greed for Glory: War Strategy Review

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    Greed for Glory: War Strategy enters the freemium field with exciting but strangely run-of-the-mill gameplay. It's similar to titles like Battle Dragons and Clash of Clans: the only real difference being a new setting and art style. But despite lacking any sort of innovation, PerBlue's medieval-themed building/combat sim will keep you strangely captivated for weeks on end. Just go easy on the diamonds, okay?Greed for Glory puts you at the helm of a small village looking to become more than a collection of wooden huts. Build new structures as you mine iron and gold, collecting as much currency as you can so you can raise a massive army of archers, knights, and wizards. With all of those trained soldiers milling around, might as well head out and attack nearby villages, right? Increase your fame (and your loot) by sacking other towns, slowly expanding and upgrading your base to accommodate your newfound power and glory.Greed for Glory sticks with the basics as far as building and resource management are concerned. A simple icon-based menu system allows you to choose which structures to place and where to place them. Quarries and mines pull iron and gold out of the ground, while barracks let you train troops to send into battle. Builder shops house workers, trebuchets fling stones at enemies, and still more buildings help you store your riches, upgrade your armies, and keep your village safe from attack. The screen is a little cluttered with information, but it's something you quickly learn to ignore, as what's happening in the center is far more interesting!
  • Surface: The Pantheon Review
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    • PC
    Surface: The Pantheon Review

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    Elephant Games has rolled out another entry in the Surface series, this time bringing a more noir-flavored approach to storytelling. Surface: The Pantheon follows Gina as she travels through a world that is literally turned inside-out and filled with strange creatures, magical landscapes, and a unique mythology. The game easily lives up to the standards set by previous releases, providing a solid puzzle solving experience with great visuals and inventive hidden object scenes.A fantastic new tunnel has been built leading through the heart of the Ridge of Leviathan, and the Capital Express train is about to make its historic first run through it. Your husband and daughter are already aboard, but someone bumps into you and spills your luggage as you rush across the station. The delay causes you to miss the train, but that's not even the worst part. The Capital Express enters the tunnel but never emerges on the other side, vanishing somewhere in the mountain. For months researchers attempt to determine what happened, but eventually the tunnel is shut down, leaving the disappearance a mystery."Gina never really moves on from the loss of her family. A year later she's at the tunnel entrance when a strange man approaches her from the other side of the gate. Dr. Martin Bors, a somewhat radical sort of scientist, claims he has a way to find out what transpired on that fateful day. He needs your help to recreate the conditions at the time of the train's disappearance. Gina goes along with it, hoping to finally reunite with her long-lost husband and daughter.