Casual Review

Review: Alice Greenfingers

A gardening experience with all the tough bits removed, and just where the fun bit remains. You’ll be growing a wide variety of crops, earning from your harvests and landscaping your garden in no time.

May 8, 2008

Review: Airport Mania: First Flight

Here’s a refreshing take on your usual click management mania. Sweet visuals and catchy gameplay bring you smiles as big (if not bigger!) as those on the planes in Airport Mania.

May 5, 2008

Review: Westward II: Heroes of the Frontier

Yearning for a more adventurous, pioneering life? Now you can build your own home on the range – and the rest of the town, too – in this deep and engaging real-time sim game with a charming Wild West theme.

April 16, 2008

Review: Bloom Busters

Not all farming games have to be sims or service games. When you end up doing as much monster fighting as farming, like in Bloom Busters, that’s when “farming game” turns into “arcade actioner.” And what action it is!

April 9, 2008

Review: StoneLoops

Codeminion, makers of the hit game Magic Match, returns with another beautifully crafted game with a twist on a classic game dynamic, and sound so good you’ll feel it in your diaphragm. Strap in and come back to the stone age with us.

March 31, 2008

Review: Cindy’s Sundaes

Another day, another service game. We got grits, cakes, coffee, beer, and hamburgers covered. What about ice cream? No? Gear up the production studio, boys! We got a new game to make! And someone do a copyright search on girl’s names – we’re gonna need another one!

March 28, 2008

Review: Elf Bowling 7 1/7

Liked Saints and Sinners bowling? Like elves? Missing the Christmas spirit now that it’s spring? We’ve got a game for you. Lace up your shoes (stockings?) and get ready to go bowling, Christmas style.

March 26, 2008

Review: Iggle Pop

We went back into the vaults from the deep dark ages of the casual game movement (2 years ago) to bring up a game that you probably never played, but really should have: Iggle Pop!

December 28, 2007

Review: Pizza Panic

In this slick little pizza-themed platformer by Arcade Lab, you can find out whether you missed your true calling: a pizza delivery boy (or girl). Is slinging pie from your trusty skateboard all it's cracked up to be?

December 24, 2007

Review: WW2 Pacific Heroes

Strap in, take off, and get ready for the fight of your life! You can finally play out your childhood fantasies of being a WW2 fighter pilot. Just don't let anyone see you wearing your scarf and goggles.

December 23, 2007

Review: Zombie Smashers X2

What could this be? Why, it's Double Dragon meets Thriller! If you sometimes feel the urge to splatter a big crowd of shuffling zombies against the wall, look no further. We have your game right here.

December 17, 2007

Review: Home Sweet Home

Home improvement is the name of the game! Today you’ll be designing and building dozens of dazzling homes for fun and profit, in Home Sweet Home.

December 17, 2007

Review: Abundante

It’s the quiet little game that could: Nothing flashy, nothing gimmicky, just good solid gameplay packaged well. An addictive mechanic, good music, solid graphics, and some quirky little subgames. If all casual games were at least this good, nobody would play anything else.

December 15, 2007

Review: Astrobatics

Like blowing stuff up? Like collecting big strap-on weapons? Really wish there was one more space shooter out there? Then Kraisoft has got the game for you.

December 10, 2007

Review: Inca Quest

Come join the “Society of Jolly Good Adventurers” for a romp through the mountains of Peru in a great little game that hasn’t gotten half the attention it deserves. Oh, and it has voiceovers with New Zealanders impersonating Englishmen. That’s always good for a laugh, isn’t it?

December 9, 2007

Review: Turtle Odyssey 2

Turtle Odyssey 2? What could this possibly be about? Well, let us tell you, it’s the neatest platformer starring a cute baby turtle that we’ve ever seen! Check out the full review.

December 7, 2007

Review: Westward

Howdy, partner! Come on over and have a look at Sandlot’s new western/sim/strategy game. It’s a darn good time, and a nice bridge between casual and hardcore strategy games.

December 4, 2007

Review: BreakQuest

If you didn’t see BreakQuest when it was released, you need to see it now. It takes everything you know about brick breakers and chucks it out the window in a totally exciting and refreshing style.

December 1, 2007

Review: Fizzball

What would happen if you took a basic breakout game, added the cool ball-building gameplay of Katamari, and then threw in a pretty cool farm management game just for good measure? You would get a great game that you just know as a reviewer will get less than half the attention it deserves.

November 30, 2007

Review: Mr. Robot

Moonpod's new game is a crazy blend of platformer, puzzle game, and RPG. Wait, what? Exactly. It's pretty cool. Read on.

November 28, 2007

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