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 [...]

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 [...]

In Discovery – A Seek and Find Adventure, you play a contestant on the fictional “Discovery!” game show – a show that lets you travel around the world and gives you a chance to win a $100,000 jackpot. This is all virtual, of course – no real cash or plane tickets here. Your goal is [...]

Developers, Publishers, and Portals

10tons Entertainment
2D Boy
300ad.com
3inabed.com
5th Cell
Abduction Studios
Absolutist
Addicting Games
Addictive 247 Games
Adept Studios
Aisle 5 Games
Alawar Games
Alby Media
Alessi Games
Aliasworlds Entertainment
Alive Games
Alpha 72 Games
Always Neat
Amaranth Games
Anarchy Entertainment
Anawiki
AncientSoft
Andromedus Software
Another Day
AOL Games
AppAbove
Apus Software
Arcade Lab
Arcade Town
Armor Games
Article 19 Group
Astatix
Artogon Games
Aterdux Entertainment
Audio Surf
Awem Studio
Awesome Mega Mighty Games
BadBumble
Bee Games
Beep Industries
Ben Olding Games
Big Blue Bubble Inc.
Big Fish Games
Big Fizz
Big Toe
Blackburst Media
Blackjack Studios
Blazewave
Blippy Games
Blitwise Productions
Blue [...]

Dairy Dash, as the name already suggests, is another spin-off of Diner Dash published by Playfirst. The story begins with the Smiths deciding to take up a relative’s old farm, and that’s where you come in. Your job is to click-manage their efforts to make the best they can out of it. Also, true to [...]

Little Farm is a beautiful piece of work from MumboJumbo and Hot Lava, which the former acquired about a year ago. It introduces plenty to the family of match-3 games. An obvious observation is that you’re matching four this time, rather than three, but that doesn’t make the game unnecessarily more complicated or tedious than [...]

There just aren’t enough good casual bowling games out there. And this Christmas season, Mumbo Jumbo has tried to do something about it with Elf Bowling 7 1/7. Good for them. Better yet, for a holiday themed casual bowling game, it’s pretty sweet. Shame we didn’t get around to reviewing it ‘till way past Easter… [...]

It has begun. For years the doom mongers have cried “the time of the independent game developer is gone! Soon all games will be exclusively distributed by portals!” Well, it looks like the world has taken a big step in that direction with the new Myth Match, developed exclusively for Yahoo! Games by Mumbo Jumbo, [...]

With all of the hype, people can forget that Luxor, when it originally came out, was considered just a clone of Zuma. However, that was never entirely true. Luxor did use a very similar base mechanic to Zuma, but it added the cool factor of having an Arkanoid-style piece along the bottom that could collect [...]