At Casual Review, we always complain that games nowadays have no personality. Studios can churn out the same game, disguise it under a different theme such as “beach” or “murder”, and call it new. But we gamers know better. We’re not fooled. So when a game does come along with REAL personality, a game with [...]

Working on the farm was never this much fun (believe me, I know).  Green Valley: Fun on the Farm is a classic match-3 puzzler at heart, but includes enough variety, humor, and top-notch production values to help it stand out from the crowd.  But, even with everything that it does right, there’s still a few [...]

Even after nightfall, in the midst of their dreams, the Peggle Institute is still as active as ever. PopCap’s latest sequel is all you’d expect from the previous game, with a new take on familiar characters, and the same old pachinko-style arcade madness. If you’re a big fan of Peggle, you know what to do. [...]

The award-winning pet vet game series is back with Pet Pals: New Leash on Life. Return to the vet clinic and take care of more than 15 types of animals, with over 30 real-life cases written by real veterinarians. At first we thought that it was just going to be another pet simulation game with [...]

It seems like a small thing, but for me, the best thing about Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena is the doors. By that, I mean the gates, portals, trapdoors, passages, exits, egresses, stairways and holes in walls. There have been hidden object games with connected levels before, but Samantha Swift just does a really [...]

Top down shooters are all about dodging enemy projectiles and making sure the enemy doesn’t dodge yours. At the end of the day, those narratives about great wars and piloting giant Japanese robots are merely façades made to hide that similarity between all shooters that have ever existed. Once you rip that pretence away, what [...]

Tropix 2: Quest for the Golden Banana gets chops just for having “banana” in its title. Everything about the game is pretty silly - you’re a monkey hopping from island to island in search of treasure, meeting penguins, crabs, and birds along the way. Instead of the traditional linear adventure, Tropix 2 is more like [...]

Games like Diner Dash and Cake Mania will always hold a special place in my heart and my game library.  It was these types of time-management games that showed me there was more to this whole “casual gaming” craze than color and shape matching puzzles.  In fact, time-management games are one of the most popular [...]

Even psychics have to rely on natural human means to find missing items sometimes. You play the role of Cassandra, a young medium who has taken after her grandmother in the practice. Cassandra has often relied on her magic ring to help her solve various cases, and unfortunately it has somehow gone missing. Together with [...]

Elven Mists 2 is as magical and dainty as its name. You are a young elven lad (young in elvish terms is 99 years old), about to take the role as Awakener of the Elves. For the elves have been sleeping in their petals, which are flowers scattered across a game board. Your job is [...]