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Some time ago I brought to your attention Chocolate Caste. Delicious puzzle game. Now I want you to look at another chocolate oriented game. It’s very tasty light strategy game. Just look at the picture!

Oh the gloriously rich and delectable life of a chocolatier! Constantly surrounded by mounds of chocolate bars and boxes of mouth-watering truffles! Build your empire one ingredient at a time as you travel the world to find the best prices and buy factories to maximize production! Manage your output and please your customers, but don’t forget about those conniving competitors who hope you fail! Do you have what it takes to conquer the world through chocolate? Find out in Chocolatier!

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No matter what your vacation plans are. No matter if you already been there or going there soon. You can have some extra fun playing this games no matter what weather conditions are outside your room.

Rome: Curse of the Necklace (PC and Mac)

Rome: Curse of the Necklace is a great new Travelogue:360 game. Explore the stunning city of Rome through 360-degree photographs in this great hidden object mystery. Find special objects in over 25 locations and swap the objects for clues to solve the mystery of “The Curse of the Necklace.” Discover some of Rome’s most popular attractions, including the Trevi Fountain, the Colosseum and St. Peter’s Square. You’ll also be amazed by locations that only the locals know about, including some that are quite strange and mysterious!

Travelogue 360: Paris (PC and Mac)

Among its renowned landmarks and hidden gems waiting to be discovered, Paris holds something new for each of its visitors. Scour some of the world’s most famous locations for souvenirs as you prepare to be interviewed for an upcoming article in Travelogue 360 magazine. Locate items hidden in 3-Dimensional views of the Eiffel Tower, down the Champs Elysees, under the Arc de Triomphe, and others of Paris’ most beloved landmarks. Find your own Paris in this incredible voyage.

Hidden Expedition: Everest (PC only)

Fresh from a successful exploration of the wreck of the Titanic, the Hidden Expedition Club will pit one of its stellar members against a formidable group of opponents in a race to the summit of Everest. Other groups will battle you to be the first to summit Mount Everest. Expert Everest climber Ed Viesturs will assist you along the way. Explore mysteries of the world as you find hidden clues. Race to the Roof of the World!

Escape from Paradise (PC and Mac)

A luxury cruise ship crashes on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Lead the survivors of the shipwreck, set up camp on the island, and build a rescue object to get your friends off the island. Escape from Paradise is packed full of different games to play. Explore the five islands surrounding the main island and unlock new games that will help you gather resources and aid you in your quest.

Trapped in a haunted room by his great-uncle, the adventurous Titus has asked you to help release him from the magical spell. To do this, you must solve the most mysterious puzzles of Azada. Crack the series of puzzles and fill in the missing pages of the enchanted book to free Titus from his prison. With more than 40 unique puzzles, and 5 master level puzzles, you will need to use strategy, think logically and have a keen eye to succeed. Uncover the secret of Azada today!

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Step into the gardening business in this intriguing simulation game, where you build and decorate your own garden of flowers, animals and vegetables. Follow the market trends, get to know your customers and serve ripe crops down at the town market to expand and get your business profitable. Harvest many different crops and enrich your land with animals as you earn more than 10 special awards. Design your garden the way YOU like it with Alice Greenfingers!

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It’s about time to announce this new great game: Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery!
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While on a well deserved vacation, Professor Fizzwizzle’s investigation of a strange volcano has landed him in a Molten Mystery! Now it’s up to you to master exciting new gadgets, outwit the Bat-Bots, and vanquish a truly cunning villain! Can the professor count on you to help?

The very new Professor Fizzwizzle is even greater than the original game. It introduces a lot of new powerups, levels and new graphics. Try it. You will not regret.

Chocolate Castle is a small cute game. When I saw the screenshots I thought that it is just yet another retro style game, but I was wrong. Since it’s not even 1MB download I downloaded it and gave it a chance. So let me just say it’s very fun.

Download Chocolate Castle now! It’s available for Windows and Mac OSX.

The object of Chocolate Castle is to eat all of the chocolate in each room. There are four types of chocolate and four types of animals to eat them with. To eat some chocolate, click and drag an animal into it and both of them will disappear.

You can also click and drag chocolate to move it into an empty space. If you put two pieces of the same colour next to each other, they will stick together. You can eat more chocolate with one animal by doing this, but be careful because once they are connected, they can not be separated!

If you make a mistake, you can rewind to any previous move my pressing the UNDO button. Replay moves by clicking REDO, or by pressing Enter.

Here are some other opinions from the web:

• Game of the month [May Edition] - Game Tunnel
• “Deceptively cute. This game doesn’t look like much at first glance, but those fluffy animals and deliciously shiny chocolate morsels conceal a mighty cerebral puzzle experience.”
  - John Bardinelli, Game Tunnel

• “All the elements are in and perfect. There are a small set of different puzzle elements, but each one greatly expands the possibilities, all of which are explored over the course of 120 levels.”
  - Mike Hommel

• “It’s such a delightfully simple concept that can lead to some extremely fiendish puzzle play and if you’re a puzzle game fan I suspect this should be in your “must-have” collection. Apart from the huge number of puzzles it appears to come with there is also a level editor which should extend its play life too.”
  - Caspian Prince, Game Tunnel

• “Seriously, don’t let the small install size trick you into thinking this game isn’t big on gameplay, because it is.”
  - William Usher, Game Tunnel

The name suggest it all. Jig Art Quest is a jig saw puzzle game. And to be honest with you I am not a huge fun of jig saw games… with exception to this one.

Why? The answer is not so simple.

Jig Art Quest is build around art. Art plays major role in this game and you can see that from the very beginning. Your quest is divided into 6 different themes such as Forest, Water, Snow, Art, Science. Each theme contains 3 unique images. That gives you a total of 18 images (+2 final images). You can play on 3 difficulty settings: easy, normal and hard. You can also enable piece rotation so it makes each setting even tougher. I prefer to play at normal difficulty without piece rotation. I can’t imagine anyone solving the puzzles on highest diffulty setting (700+ pieces).

To help you start you can uncover 8 pieces and one row. This is very nice option. It helps if you don’t place all pieces on the board and try to place them one by one (it’s easier to match).

As I mentioned, I found Jig Art Quest very entertaining. Very nice art and well set difficulty is what I like.

I’ve got only two complains. First of all - quest. There’s no quest, but name suggests that there is one. Then there are only 20 pictures (though each one is of great quality)… if that’s not enough for you, feel free to make your own custom puzzles.

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Then make sure to play Easter Bonus. This is 3-in-a-row kind of game with Easter theme. Some say it’s the best one of it’s kind (though others preffer more catchy graphics and effects).

Lately I was looking for games similar in theme to Runes of Avalon. I was surprised that there are only few. Luckily they are all great. If you want to play a great game similar to Runes of Avalon before our games will be launched, here’s my list (direct download links for PC versions):

• Fairies - chuzzle like game with great music and graphics. You can read my review here.
• Mystic Inn - Diner Dash in fantasy theme - in many ways much better than original
• Glyph - Super Collapse like game - this game has superb story line, you have to check it out
• Magic Match - great match-3 variation
• Mysteryville
• Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst

If you know about a great game (fantasy theme) that I don’t have on my list make sure to let me know about it.

Does game need a story? Can story be a game? Well, not every game and not every story.

Actually, I know only one story that can be played? What’s that? This is one of the best games I ever played, called Another World. It is a game, but has such a deep storyline, that should be considered a story that can be played. Another World is 15 years old but there are thousands of players that still remember that title. Haven’t played it? You must give it a try. Game was recently re-released with improved graphics.

Storyline very often enhances a game, makes it deeper, makes you wanna play longer. We’ve been working on storyline for Runes of Avalon for couples of weeks - well, actually professional writer was writing it. And you know what? We ended up with 23 pages of text. That’s huge, but also very interesting. Implementing it well into the game will be another piece of art.