A good game is like a cake. There is a delicate balance, an alchemy, an art. Mix just the right ingredients together, bake it just right, and it tastes delicious. Hidden Island is like an underbaked cake: it's got all the right ingredients, but hasn't been in the oven long enough.Resembling PlayFirst's Zenerchi at first glance - indeed, one could argue "heavily borrowed" - Hidden Island is a match-three using concentric circles made up of colored segments. They stack five around, and five deep, looking like a well. The goal is to make matches of three like-colors, either vertically towards the middle of the well, or in a ring horizontally.
Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, would be proud of Mandragora. The game lets you cross seeds to create new plants that share similar traits as its parents. You need to work fast in taking care of the trees by watering them, swatting bugs repeatedly, chopping down trees to make room for new ones, and protecting trees from flooding while trying to create new breeds. It's not about making money, but saving land and its inhabitants by mixing and matching seeds until you find the next step in the magic tree's evolution. Each of the seven lands has its own magic tree.
In the village of Fairyland, adorable kittens, doggies and piggies live peacefully together. Although their cute little lives are idyllic, they all aspire to something greater - supreme happiness in a land of gingerbread and caramel candy houses, where pets fly around on pink clouds and brightly colored ballons. The gates to this city of supreme happiness are only open to those who are in love. To help all of the inhabitants get there in Kiss Me, match the pets with their soulmates so they will float off into the sky and live happily ever after.
Art theft and intrigue? Munch's "The Scream" and Picasso's "Maya with Doll" are just two paintings which have been stolen in real life, and within just the past four years! Often, the thieves seek to exchange these pilfered paintings for a hefty ransom, and since these masterpieces may be worth millions the risks and pay-offs are high.