Game: Ashtaria

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.