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A short but good match 3 with a twist.

There's a barebones story, something about restoring the castle to it's former glory because the peasants all moved away. So they need money to build things and they get that by delving into the caves, where you play the match 3 games. There is also another currency, spirit or something like that, and that's used to buy special bonus things like remove 5 pieces in a cross formation anywhere you want on the board (useful for those things that you have to drop off the bottom of the board), and remix the board when you can't find any matches, and a red dragon that I never figured out what he did. You can also use spirit to make her run faster in the caves.

The caves start out simple but gradually get complex and bigger so that you can't see what's down a corridor or shaft. The goal is to get all the treasure before you find the exit. One time I took a wrong turn and ended up at the exit before I had gone everywhere. ANd there's no do-overs. You can't replay a level. You have one chance and that's it. Your character travels in a direction until she hits an obstacle (blocks, doors, etc.). At intersections there are arrows and you choose which direction you want to go. There are also animals to rescue by running into them. After you are done in the cave the animals frolic in the outdoors among the buildings you have built.

There's always some "quest" that you need to build something or do something and that costs a certain amount of money (gold coins). I call them "quests" because after you have purchased it and the graphic of it building something is done it says "Quest Completed!" When you do not have enough money to buy the "quests" then you click on "Go to the caves" and start a cave run. The cave layouts seem pre-made and not random but I don't know for sure. I also don't know how many there are but there must be enough in case a player misses some treasure chests and needs to do extra cave runs to get more money. Or you can get money by trading spirit. I had way too much spirit because I seldom used the bonus abilities but it's there for players who like to use the bonuses a lot.

According to Steam I played a little over 4 hours actual playtime. Pretty short but it really didn't feel that way to me. Maybe because I played this game in short spurts instead of long time. So keep that in mind when deciding if you want to get the game or not. I reccommend waiting for a sale, that's what I did.

The background music is okay, not annoying even though it was repetitive, it just blended into the background in my mind while I was concentrating on the match 3 levels.

This is a great game when you just want to play something for 15 minutes. This is a card game but not one where you have a deck of your own and play cards on a field. Instead there is a grid of cards randomly chosen from enemies, weapons, healing potions, and more, and YOU are one of the cards! You move around the grid up, down, left, right by clicking on the card next to you that you want to go to. If there is an enemy there you'd better have a weapon otherwise you take damage equal to the enemies HP. Your HP is 10 and you need to be careful not to take too much damage because healing potion cards do not always show up when you need them. If your HP goes to zero, you die. Other helpful cards are shrines that make every enemy on the board poisoned or on fire for a few turns. There are also spikes to watch out for. They go up on one turn then down on the next. You can walk over them when they are down (it looks like ground with a bunch of holes in it) and that neutralizes that threat. Some enemies move and follow you as you take your turn but most stay where they are so you can maneuver around them, grab a weapon, collect coins and then come back to kill them. But each move you make creates a space for a new card to appear and it could be an enemy, a weapon, spikes, healing potion, or just flat empty ground.

Currently there are four bosses each with it's own look (skeleton head, spider-woman, giant green blob) and once defeated leave a great weapon like a fire stick. Defeating bosses helps you unlock things like more weapons and helpful abilities to choose from such as "heal each move you make that is not an attack".

You start with the basic hog but as you play more you unlock more characters and each one has unique weapons. For instance the Ninja has a staff, the Cowboy has a gun. They all have 3 weapons that could appear on the board: their main one, like a sword, a second one that is usually a multi-enemy weapon like the molotov cocktail.

Currently there are four different modes you can choose to play, all single player (hopefully multiplayer will come in the future?).

Dungeon Loop is the main one I've been playing. If you last long enough there is a red door card that leads you to a small "town" where there are NPCs that can increase your weapon damage in exchange for the scrap you have collected, or add cards, like different weapons, to the deck in exchange for some of the coins you collect (some enemies leave coins after they die). Once you've done all you want you return to the main board and continue on.

Endless Mode is, as it sounds, endless. Just keep playing until you die.

Flame Escape Mode where you have to keep moving to the right because there is a wall of flame that will destroy the left-most line of cards after you take your turn.

Zombie mode (not it's real name, sorry it just got added and I forget what it's called). I haven't played it yet but I assume it's got Zombies!

Though they say it's in Early Access the game as it is now is completely playable (and re-playable!) The Devs are open to what the players have to say and have even made changes based on player feedback. They also say they have more things planned to add and I can't wait to see what they come up with.

I've played for 8 hours, according to Steam, and it feels like a lot longer. Maybe because each game is so short because I die a lot (as you will too). I haven't even unlocked all the characters yet! So that will give you an idea of how much you have to play (some say grind) to unlock everything. In the beginning your game might only last 5 minutes because you don't have anything unlock, you start with the basic hog with a basic weapon. As you unlock things you can play longer, 15 minutes or even more but eventually you will die.

If that sounds like fun to you then get this game! I love to support Devs who are active with their player base and listen to them.

I rarely refund a game but this one I had to. It was just not fun. And it didn't seem like a dungeon but more like a town with a villager standing there saying "will you kill the rats that have infected our town" or whatever it was. I prefer a more linear dungeon, maybe with a few side corridors to dead ends (with treasure chests!) not this town. Maybe there's a dungeon later but I didn't make it that far.

Also, I prefer Turn-Based instead of Action all the time. I got killed once because I was in my inventory looking at things or trying to make room for something I just found in a chest and didn't know that it wasn't turn-based and that enemies could sneak up on me and attack with just a soft wap sound that I did not notice. In some games if you get attacked from behind they flash the screen red to let you know! That would have been helpful. I prefer turn-based so I can take my time looking at my inventory without having to worry about being attacked. In this game you'd better take a quick look!

The keyboard controls were difficult for me to use. I kept moving sideways instead of moving my view to the side. Trying to move and control the view was difficult. I kept forgetting which key to use or using the wrong one. When you're getting attacked from something you can't see you have to move your head so you can see to attack! Alas I died again.

This game is not for me but I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad game because of that. There may be people out there who like this type of game. More power to them but I'm out of here.

This is a great solitaire game! They have some tricks up their sleeves to prevent us from winning such as cards that are covered by dirt and slowly appear when we make matches until the dirt is all gone and the card is usable. In later levels they have the same thing but if you don't match it when it's usable then the dirt reappears for every move you make that's not a match, like clicking through the card deck. So it's difficult to clear that card because you have to have other cards that can use it and at the right time. Another thing is a card that is blank but with a number that counts down every time we make a match until it gets to zero and flips over and is usable. Then there's a stack a cards covered by a strange colored backing and the way to clear it is to uncover another strange glowing card back and click on it to clear the other one. For help, occasionally you get some wild cards that can be used and then select any card on the tableau to clear it. Wild Cards are very useful when you run through the entire deck and still have a card or two to clear.

What I love about this game is that there are 4 different difficulty options to play, from Easy (gives you more cards), Normal (usual number of cards), Hard (subtracts some cards from a normal size deck), and Really Hard (it's not called that, I forget what it's called, also even more cards are subtracted from the deck!) So if you just want to breeze through the game you can play on Easy. If you want a challenge and like replaying the same hand over and over and over again then choose one of the harder options. You can choose how YOU want to play the game and I think that's great.

The story is unusual, not the typical quest type. THere are long story scenes between each segment. You can skip all the scenes if you don't want to read them and that is okay.

There are pets in eggs that you find beneath a stack of cards, just like in the other Faerie Solitaire games. Also you could find wood or magic dust under a stack of cards. They are used to unhatch our eggs into pets.

The music is not as light-hearted as in previous games but is not totally dark and heavy and depressing. Let's say it fits the theme of Dire. And they did not distract me from my gameplay but quietly played in the background. The sound effects are the same as in the other Faerie Solitaire games.

Notice: As of this writing the game is not complete. They have artwork that needs to be added to the story sections and the ending of the game needs to be added. Also pets are inoperable right now so any you find you can't do anything with them. The Devs are hard at work on this and will update new content as it is finished.

Also note that I received a free Beta key and am surprised that I was able to play as much as I was. I assumed the beta would end and I would have to buy the game. That still might happen and I will definitely buy it. If it ends up that the Dev game me a total free copy of the game even once it is finished then I will buy a copy for a friend that wants it to pay it forward. The fact that I got this for free has no impact on my review.

This is a fun match 3 game to play with a variety of puzzle styles. There are the usual swap match 3, then there are levels where you click on icons of two or more which the game calls "collapse", then there is "puzzle" where you have a grid showing the outline of objects (leaves, pots, flowers, shells, etc.) and items fall from the sky continuously and you have to grab an item and put it over it's outline to fill in the puzzle. Later levels have sections where you have to place two of the items in order to fill it in, or boxes that have to be broken down by placing an object next to it. I loved those levels, they were a lot of fun.

The story is barebones and illogical. A volcano errupted and destroyed a native village on some island. Explorer lady (I forgot her name) flies out to the island to help. We rebuild the village by playing the match 3 levels and earning gold which we spend on upgrades to the village (huts, pond, etc.) at the same time we find fragments of ancient artifacts (scroll, pot, etc.) which also earn money. (who are they buying from????!!!!)

Background music is pleasant. No problem there. Sounds are okay too.

Price? I bought it on sale because I'm cheap but it's worth what I paid for or even more. You decide for yourself to buy it full price or wait for a sale.

My game took 10 hours to finish the story and now I have to replay levels to get all 3 stars to get all the achievements.

This is a beautiful puzzle game. You have to make the flowers bloom by having a water source next to it and also green grass tiles around it. The first several levels are easy as they introduce the game concept but after awhile suddenly you come to an abrupt halt and are stumped for awhile. I try to complete it by my own mental power rather than referring to guides, but I'm also impatient so on 3 of the puzzles I did give in and look at the guide for the solution.

The music and sounds are very soothing and relaxing with rushing water and a soft guitar playing in the background.

Visuals are nice especially when the flowers bloom.

I bought my copy when it was on sale and it's worth the price. Even though I only show 4 hours of playtime (it felt like a lot longer) I know that I will revisit this game and play it again in a year once I have forgotten all the solutions. I missed playing it when I had completed all the levels, I wanted more! Such a pleasant puzzle game.

6 hours of torture! No, I did not like this match 3 game and had to force myself to finish it.]

1. First off the graphics look weird, especially the girl, Amanda, her face looks freaky. The icons were so detailed they were actually hard to match because I couldn't tell the difference between the Ice Cream Cone and the Ring. And I don't even know what some of them were. What's that horizontal blue and white striped thing? And that bunch of bubbles, what is it supposed to be?

2. Secondly the music is horrible. It's like bad elevator music or the stuff they play when you are on hold on the phone because your call is very important to them.

3. The Gameplay. Nothing really bad there except there's not much variation. There are some icons hidden behind ropes and you have to match it in order to break the ropes. Later there will be double ropes! It would have been nice to see wooden boxes that are cleared by matching next to them, or iced over icons to match, but no, all we get are ropes, ropes, ropes! It's especially difficult to make a match to a roped icon when it is near the top of the field. It's basically just make matches until you get lucky.

4. Special Items. They give you 3 items to help you once the meter is filled up: a Hammer that will clear one square, a Bomb that clears 4 squares, and something that looks like a medallion that takes away all of a selected icon off the board. I'm not sure if the meter fills just as you make matches or only when you match 4, 5, or 6.

5. Good luck trying to get 3 stars on every level! And Thank God there are no Steam achievements for that. I play a lot of match 3 games so I consider myself pretty fast but in this game I got mostly 2 stars.

6. Boss Fight! Now this was fun. At the end of each room there is a boss that goes back and forth across the bottom of the screen. The matching board is above it and when a match is made above the boss the items fall on it and it loses HP. There are also spiders trying to web up some of the icons but they can get removed by making a match under them.

7. The Sticker Book. It makes me want to puke. That's not my idea of a sticker book but I guess I'm too old and this is how they do things nowadays. It's a scene in a park with flowers, people just standing about randomly, more flowers, a gazebo, even more flowers and even the Eiffel Tower! It's just so girly. Too much for me.

8,Final Thoughts. Price: I got my key through a bundle so I can't comment on the store price. I'm giving this game a negative rating because it was not fun to play. I forced myself to finish so I could make this review in the hopes of sparing people the pain and agony I went through.

Without the guide I would NEVER in a million years have thought of those words. Were there some clues I missed? It's like a guessing game and it's unfair.

To the game's credit it does have full voice dialogues.
Graphics are simple swirly dark colors with an eye or ova or something in the middle.

I'm not gonna comment on the "free key" thing as that has nothing to do with the game itself and it's the game I am reviewing. My opinion: Don't waste your time. Oh and it has achievements but some dumb ones like play the game in the year 2036 (or something like that). Wut? Or how about make 50 wrong guesses on any level. Tedious. Play the game through 7 times! NO FREAKING WAY. Once was enough for me thank you very much. I hate stupid achievements like that.

Do you like Match 3 games? Do you like farming games? Well then "Hope's Farm" is a match made in heaven for you! This game combines the normal match 3 gameplay and adds lite farming that you have to do before you can go onto the next match 3 round. The items that you are matching are part of an "order" the farm has received. Like person A wants 45 tomatoes, person B wants 50 cucumbers, person C wants 4 cartons of milk. In the beginning you have only a couple crops and a fruit tree. Click on the tomato patch and a water bucket appears, drag that over the field to water it. In a few seconds the crop will grow. To harvest it, just hover your mouse over the crop and a sickle appears, drag that over it to harvest the crop. Harvested crops go into Storage and you only have so much room so don't get carried away stocking up on corn. Once your "order" match 3 game has been successfully played you get star points. Once you have enough star points you get an upgrade such as more crops and eventually chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep.

When you run out of water from watering your crops you play the water game. In one corner of the board is a icon with water beneath it, similar to the game The Four Elements. The rest of the board has got a dirt background that you dig away by matching over it. At the bottom of the screen is a Well. Make a path from the water to the well to finish.

The match 3 game part has the typical bonus items that you get from matching four in a row or five in a row. In this game you get a firecracker that eliminates things in a cross (up, down, left, right) around the firecracker. Match 5 to get a bomb that eliminates a square 3x3 blocks. In addition to those are three bonus items you can use at any time: a shovel that will remove one square, (I'm having brain fog and can't remember the second one), and thirdly a Lightning Bolt that will remove all of the same item like all the corn disappears. You can use those any time but they are limited in number initially and can be purchased by some form of currency (blue stars?) that you only have so much of and get more by completing levels.

The graphics are cutesy and bright. The background music sound like old time folk music with banjos and harmonicas. It's pleasant and has a down home feel to it.

Price seems reasonable for this genre. I bought it on sale.

I'd say this is one of the good ones in the genre, as long as you like the farming aspect because you will be doing a lot of it. If you don't care for farming you might find that part tedious. I have not completed the game yet and wonder what happens at the end once you have all the crops and animals. I can see the urge to play the game again from the beginning once one has finished, so there may be replay value. Total time to finish all 100 order (levels) is about 11 hours. Not bad.

This is the only Grafi game (so far) that I've made it to the last level and boy is it a doozy. I can't make it past the last buzzsaw.

Anyway, if you've never played a Grafi game before (and they all feature the same concepts) then here's how the game works. You have to guide your ball to the finish area (it is colored different) by using your mouse button to change gravity so your ball falls up or down into a new area. You can't change gravity any time you want to but there are pink jewels that you run into that let you change gravity one more time for each jewel. At first the game is easy but fairly soon they add Spikes to avoid, moving spikes, floating buzzsaws, pendulum swing buzzsaws, and other things. You need to use precise timing to get past the obstacles. Once you make it to the finish area a chime sounds and you can continue to the next level.

One thing I love about these games is the small details like trees growing sideways or upside down. It adds some wackiness to the game.

The music is pleasant but the track is too short and repeats endlessly which gets monotonous after awhile.

There are Achievements! And they are alphabet letters and numbers for those won't can't get enough of them.

The game is cheap but wait for a sale and get it cheaper. That's about it. All the Grafi games are the same in concept so if you like one, get them all! You don't have to start at the first just jump right in anywhere. The game introduces the concepts for you slowly.