A Comfortable Burden
This game is simple in design, rich in passing a message.
If you don’t know what the mental burden is, check this game out, if you want to support a cause, check this game out. if you want to teach someone the subject, gift them the game!
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
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In dire need of an instant-restart button. If you get stuck once at the start of a 45 or 90 second session, you have to sit out the entire session knowing you cannot make it because there are no ways to make up for lost time - walking speed and task length cannot be modified and it’s easy to estimate that you cannot take care of three rooms in 15 seconds, so why waste your time doing so? The at times very clunky controls don’t exactly enhance the experience either and I’d suggest the devs highlight the tasks when they can actually be taken care of instead of when you’re just kinda close, or maybe put the characters on exact lanes, because finding the correct (read: pixel-perfect while inexplicaby also vague) positioning for a few of the tasks takes ages. A save feature would be highly welcome as well. Overall, the game feels like an alpha release or proof of concept - which is a shame, because there is a quality work behind all these hindrances.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Diner Mania
Diner Mania is what it sounds like, a combination of Diner Dash and Cake Mania. As far as content goes, Diner Mania is bare bones, offering only the most minimal of content a game of this genre can present. The storyline is fairly straightforward: A string of family friendly restaurants are driven out of business by rowdy bikers who vandalize, terrorize, and refuse to pay their bill, leaving only the owners of the Italian restaurant in charge of helping rid their town of the biker plague and put their neighbouring restaurants back in business. Despite this endearing storyline, this game itself is anything but endearing,
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
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Diner Mania is a game where you are given the task to run a restaurant, serve customers and try to get gangsters to leave the business. With the money you earn you can upgrade your restaurant and get new dishes to serve. Eventually you save enough money to buy three more restaurants and you should try to earn the full three stars in each restaurant to finish the game.
The game has a good pace, and can get quite difficult at times when you are swarmed with customers. Thankfully you are able to switch restaurants in the game, so it never really gets boring (until the end, when I was trying to get the three stars in the last restaurant, and no upgrades left, that was a bit tedious).
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Amber’s Airline - 7 Wonders
7 wonders at your click
So welcome to another of many GameHouse games. This one really surprised me. Usually these games don’t improve much, often they have some heartwarming stories to tell which are quite good for such games but when it comes to gameplay, nearly every game was pretty much the same.
Well, this one also has the same gameplay obviously but it has some new activities.
The story here is more serious and touches more serious aspects of life, even sever illness which is kinda strange to see in the series which always were very uplifting. Don’t get me wrong I loved it of course and the story in the end is heartwarming as always. Oh and there’s love drama of course.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
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OMG, OLD SKULL GAMES! WHAT A COME BACK! 3
I don’t know where to start first because there are just so much awesmazing new features in this season of Amber’s Airline! I means… we can ENJOY DRESSING UP THEIR AIRLINE UNIFORM?! What a crazy idea and I absolutely love it! I especially adore the red and gray suit airline uniform. Moreover, our famous fashion designer, Angela is in there as well!
And let me highlight how much I love their newly designed golden heart - so much sparkles and I absolutely loving it! Also, very well done once again on the lively animation especially the MOVIE PART! Gosh, those 3D animation skills are totally breathtaking! And the new designed airline uniform are shown in the movie as well - I means like WHAT A SIGHT! 3
– Real player with 16.6 hrs in game
Amy’s Greenmart
This has everything that you would expect in a time management game. A cute little story and relaxing. Its nice that you don’t have to purchase anything else to fully finish the game. Really the only issue that I have is that I am needing updates. I would like more levels to keep playing this great game. without distractions and straight play though it would have probably beat it in like 25 to 27 hrs. I do hope to see more!
– Real player with 33.2 hrs in game
A delightful throwback to the golden age of the Time Management game
Amy’s Greenmart takes on a Time Management format that is rarely seen in today’s casual games world, one that reminisces classic hits such as the Dash series. However, I sincerely enjoy the little relatable details of how a elderly who need assistant in seeking certain products or a celebrity who is too cool to shop by themselves, and even helping the mothers who are separated from her child during the shopping.
– Real player with 29.6 hrs in game
School Bus Fun
Short version: 66%
School Bus Fun is too complex for a child, too childish for an adult, too fast for a service industry game, and too random for a resource management game. Yet somehow it’s still fun to some degree.
Long version:
School Bus Fun is a service industry game (the sub-genre started by Diner Dash), where your goal is to use your car to transport an increasing number of children to their local school. With this theme and graphics, one would assume this game is made for children to train their memory and help with their hand-eye coordination. While School Bus Fun indeed does all those things, maybe it also overdid it a notch.
– Real player with 18.8 hrs in game
AT A GLANCE
(Full review follows below)
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Game Name: School Bus Fun
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Original Release: 2014
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Genre Tags: Casual; Simulation; Puzzle; Logistics
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My Overall Grade: B
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Estimated Playtime (Campaign): 10-18 hours
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Multiplayer Aspect: None
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Recommended To: Puzzle game aficionados; Novelty seekers; Casual gamers
REVIEW
School Bus Fun is an interesting, casual, puzzle game that will test your time-management and logistical-planning abilities. It is a truly casual game, and even at the end levels it will be easy to “pass” each level; however, to get 3-stars in later levels can be quite a challenge and will require perfect planning and execution in real time. It is a very basic game, with little depth; but it is a great game for situations where you want to play something that isn’t overly immersive and is easy to put down.
– Real player with 15.8 hrs in game
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
EDIT June 20, 2016: The New Game+ DLC is here!
The DLC improves the game a fair bit in my opinion. I am a sucker for dating sims, as my library can attest. This one keeps it interesting by not letting you date everyone at once, and having the characters actually mention something about it. Unfortunately, no one appears to be polyamorous, but there’s definitely more than just heterosexuality, which I know a lot of people look for in a game. The quests here are still just as ridiculous, but I grew even more attached to characters, especially ones I didn’t know you could recruit in the base game! It’s zany, keeps the humour, and lets the player in on the inner thoughts of various characters. Also university is always a fun setting to play a game in.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
Review with accompanying screenshots and video at Sinical Network
I received this game for free as a curator connect offer for my group Visual novel, JRPG, Anime, and bought the DLCs with my own money. Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim is a supernatural parody visual novel with RPG elements by Stegalosaurus Game Development. It features a female or male protagonist by the name of Perry Hollycraft who is tasked to lead the Deep Ones (subterranean dwellers living in a remote volcanic island) to conquer the inhabitants of Innsmouth, a small coastal town in New England.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
Rouge Patrol
The war between Rouge and Bleue has gone beyond either nation’s capacity to wage it. First they drafted the men and then boys… women were conscripted in turn. Now, with all spent - and surrender unthinkable - the grinding machine of war has turned to girls.
Fourteen years old, Sergeant P.G. Tails has lost everything to Bleue and will stop at nothing to achieve their destruction. But, as she leads her unit into the unending conflict, she begins to realise that the price of revenge may be paid, not by her, but the girls she has come to love. Worse, she carries a secret that puts her in more danger from her friends than her enemies…
Description
Rouge Patrol tells an epic and heartfelt story about friendship, loss, and a young girl’s conflicting drive to avenge what’s been taken while preserving what remains. You will take on the role of Sergeant P.G. Tails and, through a fusion of visual novel and stat-raiser mechanics, explore a branching and perilous narrative.
Each member of Rouge patrol has her own history and interrelationships. But, as their commanding officer, your choices will determine their future. Form friendships with any or all of them, but balance socialisation against the pressures of maintaining your found family’s ability to survive the missions you lead them into.
Featuring:
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Ten main characters and multiple sides, all with over thirty unique poses
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Full HD CGs, backgrounds and sprites
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Separate health, morale and relationship systems that impact characters' appearance and behaviour
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Multiple story branches
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Individual stat management for the whole patrol
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Levels, exp, ability tests, perks and all that good stuff
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Four branching romances
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Tragic friendships!
Delicious - Emily’s Road Trip
First of all, thank you for bringing us another season of Delicious Emily’s series. It was quite a journey with the O' Malleys, but was very entertaining and life reflecting.
Again, GameHouse Original Stories and their developers never fails to bring us the joy and heartwarming stories in their time management games. Of course, in this season of Delicious Emily, the stories are very entertaining and interesting; feel the ride from retro rock and roll to spicy vroom vroom then to SPOOKY BOO!! I have to say this season are very refreshing as there are so many unexpected plots and scene.
– Real player with 56.0 hrs in game
This series has always been one of my favourites but I’ve been so frustrated with this latest addition.
The story this time is very weak and it seems like very little was added to the gameplay. Apart from one stage introducing a table for six, it’s no different from anything we’ve seen before.
The menu has only one upgrade available for each item and the RNG for these items to be requested by customers is incredibly unbalanced.
I can only assume this is to artificially force the player to replay the game as one of the achievements is to unlock every item menu. However, if at the end of 10 levels and challenges the chilli has only been ordered 4 times and you need 50 to unlock the next…you can imagine how annoying that can be. This has been the case for every stage I’ve completed in this so far.
– Real player with 53.2 hrs in game
Detective Jackie - Mystic Case
If ever a game would benefit from the addition of voice acting it is this one.
I had never played any game of this type before, having been attracted to give Detective Jackie a try by the excellent review Feena had already posted and that turned out to be an excellent decision.
If you are familiar with time management games, skip the next paragraph, else read on.
Gameplay
The game is spread across a six-day murder investigation, each day being split into 10 levels equalling one chapter of the story. Most of these levels involve seeing to the needs of a continuous stream of clients within a number of different locations. The clients either want to be somewhere or want something presenting to them. You either click the client and then the location, else the item and then the client, in order to meet their needs. Above their heads are some heart icons – these are effectively a timer for how long you have to service them; the quicker you do so, the more points you will score. The more points you accrue before the level timer runs out, the greater the number of star-checkpoints within the level you will reach. At the end of each level, these stars are rewarded to you as crystals, which act as currency to purchase power-ups which allow you to progress your servicing attempts more quickly and efficiently.
– Real player with 19.7 hrs in game
Knowing this is a new series developed by Old Skull Games, who are also the developers who created Amber’s Airline - you definitely know YOU CAN’T MISS THIS SERIES!
It has been commented countless of times that the detective genre seem to be unable to be fitting in a Time Management game - well this time, the Old Skull Games developers totally proof them wrong. And they did them OUTSTANDINGLY with this beautiful series, Detective Jackie.
Not only with the stories plot are well written with a great pace, the interrogation scene was even done cinematically and you get to have a taste of choice matters games in there. This is very creative ideas by combining interactive function into a time management stories game. The animation is flawless, beautiful soundtracks and graphics scenery. Even at this rate, I still can’t believe that all these times, the greek ancient mythology has been hidden under the Snuggford!!!
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
Endurance Labyrinth
This game was made by the Devil.
Normal mode was made by Devil’s bully.
Seriously, I thought a maze game would fit in the puzzle category, but it’s like this is a soulsborne or something like that.
Started to play and died, died, died and died. Finally finished the damn thing, and FIVE HOURS HAVE PASSED WTF
The game is cheap, cute, simple to learn, easy (it actually is easy) but SEVERELY PUNISHING. If you don’t have photographic memory, you will know what I felt playing it.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
A good game for those who enjoy a challenge.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game