If you've ever played a game like Haypi Kingdom or Island Empire and wished there were just a few more spaceships and high-tech soldiers, Avalon Wars is for you. It offers up a similar, menu-driven style simulation that lets you build up a planetary settlement and engage in intergalactic combat with other players. This means that the gameplay straddles the line between being both deep and boring, at times giving you plenty of control over what you want to do, while bombarding you with repetitive actions and difficult to parse menus. But for those who are into that sort of thing, there's a good amount on offer here.
In theory, Castle Age: Heart of Darkness has everything you could want in an RPG. It's deep and seemingly complex, features a dark fantasy world to explore, and offers up plenty of combat and lots of character customization. Sounds good, right? It's just too bad that virtually every aspect of the game, from exploring to fighting, is incredibly dull.
The team Gravity Interactive is best known for its massively multiplayer browser RPGs, the biggest being Ragnarok Online. But for the developer's next release, Eternal Destiny, it's eyeing a new platform: Facebook.
If nothing else, Playdom's Gnome Town is notable for the absence of a feature. Yes, this is a Facebook game with no energy system, so you don't have to worry about ever running out. That alone makes the game worth a look, but thankfully there's a lot more to it. Gnome Town is an adventure filled with fantasy and mystery and more than a few clever ideas.
Gnome Town, developed by Playdom and played on Facebook, allows you to be the hero as you save the critters of the enchanted forest from the evil gnome. You will free the animals and build a town where you will all live together and prosper as you tend crops, run businesses, and explore hidden treasures in the forest. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.
MapleStory Adventures is a Facebook spinoff of the hit free-to-play MMO MapleStory, using a similar visual style. The main difference is that MapleStory Adventures is more of a straight single-player RPG on Facebook, using social elements in place of true multiplayer elements. The game launches festooned with traditional MMORPG elements like crafting, pets, and quests available in tweaked, Facebook-friendly form. The depth of content is almost unprecedented in Facebook gaming and sure to keep players clicking away at monsters for ages.
After giving us Avadon: The Black Fortress, Spiderweb Software went back to its beloved Avernum series (of which there are already six in-depth indie RPGs) for inspiration. The result is the upcoming Avernum: Escape from the Pit, the first chapter in a new fantasy RPG saga that tells the tale of "desperate exiles and their battle for survival and a land to call their own."
When an evil gnome destroys your forest town, there's really no other option but to rebuild. And that's exactly what you'll be doing in Gnome Town, the latest Facebook release from Playdom. Just launched after a closed beta, Gnome Town tasks you with bringing the forest back to life by rescuing animals, clearing away debris, and building homes.