It's hard not to get a sense of deja vu upon booting up a new game developed by Kabam, as each game tends to play much like the last, albeit with a few tweaks and a new theme. Edgeworld largely follows this trend, playing out a lot like a sci-fi version of Global Warfare. But it manages to improve on its predecessors thanks to a much improved, and much more engaging, new combat mode.
There's the whiff of a misspent premise around Camelot: The Game. The game is a tie-in to the Camelot series that Starz aired earlier this year and, rather curiously, formally canceled just a few weeks ago. The game's visuals are based directly on the look of the show, complete with photographs of the actors appearing both as decoration and in the tutorial (where the show's Merlin sends you through the steps of founding a village). Typically brand tie-in games on Facebook are very formulaic ones that leave lots of room for the license to shine, but Camelot: The Game has loftier goals.
Hero Generations is a game about life, death, and making the most of the short time you have on this earth. It has elements of an RPG and an adventure game, and plays like the strangely compelling offspring of Infinity Blade and Jason Rohrer's Passage. It's a Facebook game that actually makes you feel something deep down, and for that alone it's worth a look.
Roman Taxi aims to satisfy the gaming itch of folks tapped out of CityVille and other such Facebook favorites, but can this latest offering from Menue (Zombie Mosh) micro manage its way into your heart?
From Dust has been described as "A modern God-game where nature is the star." You play a mysterious character who can control the elements, and these powers become your village's only chance of survival against devastating wildfires, earthquakes, torrential rains, and more.
From "Magic: The Gathering" to "Pokémon," trading card games have entertained collecting fiends and strategy players for decades. In Strongholds: New Age, a follow-up to the original Strongholds, players face the computer or go head-to-head in an electronic version of familiar, number-crunching trading card battles.
Brain Candy has released new screenshots for its upcoming PC/Mac multiplayer strategy game, Fray. Fray will be available for pre-order this fall from Fray-Game.com, and players who pre-order will be given early access to the beta version as well as a second copy of the final game to give to a friend for free!
Odd Manor is an unusual Facebook game in which you control a gnome that's tasked with trying to clean up the grounds of a run-down old house you've inherited. Naturally, the house was originally owned by a magician and you have the opportunity to re-learn all of the original owner's magic feats by, uh, forcing your gnome to cultivate your garden. By growing special plants, you can release fairies with a variety of magic powers into your garden, earn money, and hoard magical artifacts. You can also decorate your garden, but chances are you'll spend far more time trying to liberate it from stray rocks and weeds.