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This is the idle game "The Tower". This is a run at Tier 4.

〰️〰️〰️ What is Defense Grid? What kind of game is Defense Grid? 〰️〰️〰️ Defense Grid is a “tower defense” game where you need to protect power cores from an invading insect army. More information can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Grid:_The_Awakening 〰️〰️〰️ Is Defense Grid “Pay to Win”? What do you get for spending real world money? 〰️〰️〰️ Unlike many games today, this game is not supported by advertising. One purchases the game and can play the game - in this case on Steam - for as long as desired. While each player will try different strategies and tower setups, the experience otherwise is the same. 〰️〰️〰️ Is there any objectionable material in Defense Grid? 〰️〰️〰️ I'm sure someone somewhere may object to the massacre of insects or the transfer of a personality into a computer or some other far fetched idea. But for most otherwise normal people, there is no objectionable material in this game. 〰️〰️〰️ Is Defense Grid fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? 〰️〰️〰️ Defense Grid will appeal to those players who prefer a more tactical and strategic kind of game. Defense Grid can be challenging. Some achievements can be frustrating to obtain but the story mode is not going to frustrate many players. Being a purchased game, there is no incentive to create levels or make current levels longer just to keep players in the game. As such, there is no grind in this game. 〰️〰️〰️ Is Defense Grid playable on a mobile device? 〰️〰️〰️ Defense Grid is made for the Personal Computer and some gaming consoles. While it may be possible to play Defense Grid in an emulated environment on a mobile device, this game is not designed as such. 〰️〰️〰️ What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? 〰️〰️〰️ As Defense Grid is a game one purchases, there is no need for in-game advertisements. 〰️〰️〰️ What is the story in Defense Grid? 〰️〰️〰️ The story is based on alien invasion of a planet that has a dormant defense grid. As the player is re-activating the defense system with the assistance of a computer to control the machinery and with only limited resources, the aliens attempt to steal power cores. Power cores are "tiny floating orbs" that provide vital power to the defense grid. Cores are carried by aliens, and when the aliens carrying them die, the cores are dropped, and will slowly float back to their central holder. Once all power cores have been taken from the level, the game is over. Only one power core needs to remain when the last wave of aliens are defeated to complete a level. 〰️〰️〰️ Is this a commitment game or a casual game? 〰️〰️〰️ As with any game one purchases, there is a commitment factor to it. After all, why pay for a game and not play it? That said, Defense Grid is more a casual game with levels lasting no more than 10-15 minutes. 〰️〰️〰️ What is this video about? 〰️〰️〰️ This video captures the story mode difficulty of the Awakening Story line. The Awakening story line is more a tutorial with more challenging levels played later. 〰️〰️〰️ Anything else we should know? 〰️〰️〰️ Defense Grid is a nice casual tower defense game. If you are a fan of Tower Defense games, give this one a shot. You will not be disappointed.

~~~~~ What is Mini Restaurant? What kind of game is Mini Restaurant? ~~~~~ Mini Restaurant is a restaurant simulation type game with a touch of real-time strategy and time management techniques baked into the game. ~~~~~ Is Mini Restaurant “Pay to Win”? What do you get for spending real world money? ~~~~~ Strictly speaking, Mini Restaurant is not pay to win. Although the grind in this game starts early and builds up that the prospect of watching advertising to save a few minutes of impatiently grinding, sorry, trying to build up to an upgrade, that the game ceases to be enjoyable. So paying removes the advertising requirements for these little perks ("offers") which appear every so often in the game. ~~~~~ Is there any objectionable material in Mini Restaurant? ~~~~~ Strictly speaking, no. Some may desire more diversity in the customer base but if that's the worst objectionable material, the game will be appropriate for everyone. ~~~~~ Is Mini Restaurant fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? ~~~~~ We are a little biased here. We prefer challenging games. We prefer games that make us think. We prefer games that force us to expand our minds. That said, we also understand the need for casual games. We understand the need for “mindless” type games. We understand that even young children can benefit from playing easier type games. All that being said, we do not find Mini Restaurant to be fun or challenging. We definitely find this game to be a grind. ~~~~~ What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? ~~~~~~ In-game advertisements do exist in this game. You can choose to view some for in-game currency which is almost required - as that is better than aimlessly wasting time waiting to accumulate enough in-game currency to get an upgrade. ~~~~~ Do you recommend this game? ~~~~~ Bottom line, no. We absolutely HATE saying this about any game. We want to support the developers and understand that coding and debugging games can be an arduous task. We have found some buggy elements which detract from the game. It's a shame too. This game could be good for children learning how a decision can have an impact. Do I purchase another table or do I hire another chef? Do I make the restaurant prettier or do I learn new foods? But there are so many ads and requests for ads that we simply can not recommend this game.

Adventure Capitalist is the 1st idle clicker game from Hyper Hippo. This game takes the idle clicker concept with the goal of making as much money as possible. This video shows the first 30 Angel Investors. Each angel gives an additional 2% profit but you need to restart everything. Sounds annoying but with this boost, you catch up real quick. You can start to see it here, especially if you compare this to the original start of the game. As you would expect from a mobile game, there is advertising and micro-transactions. However, none of these were forced - just optional.

Adventure Communist is the 2nd idle clicker game from Hyper Hippo. The first was Adventure Capitalist. This game takes the idle clicker concept of making as much money as possible and puts a communist twist as well as add a few features. This video shows Tier 7.3 until Tier 8.3. Collected a bunch of stuff. Collected some rewards. Did a few objectives, until the grind started to set in. As you would expect from a mobile game, there is advertising and micro-transactions. However, none of these were forced - just optional.

Adventure Communist is the 2nd idle clicker game from Hyper Hippo. The first was Adventure Capitalist. This game takes the idle clicker concept of making as much money as possible and puts a communist twist as well as add a few features. This video shows the Winter Motherland until tier 1.1. We went about as far as we could go before the grind starts to take over. As you would expect from a mobile game, there is advertising and micro-transactions. However, none of these were forced - just optional.

Adventure Ages is the 3rd idle clicker game from Hyper Hippo. The first was Adventure Capitalist and the second being Adventure Communist. This game takes the idle clicker concept of resource management and puts a story about fixing the space-time continuum. This video shows the progression of the game from the tiers listed above. We went about as far as we could go before the grind starts to take over. As you would expect from a mobile game, there is advertising and micro-transactions. However, none of these were forced - just optional.

This is the idle game "The Tower". This is a run at Tier 5.

~~~~~ What is Chain Pop / Chain 3? ~~~~~ Chains 3 is a match 3 game where one must rotate a link of chain to create a chain link of at least three (3) links. Chain Pop is a match 3 game where one must move a chain link to create a chain link of at least three (3) links. This is a different twist on your generic match 3 game. We appreciate that. ~~~~~ Is Chain 3 / Chain Pop to Win? What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? ~~~~~ The developers seem to be taking the standard approach here: An advertisement after a level or two. An advertisement to give extra moves or some other in-game benefit. As such, one can pay to remove these ads and receive some in-game benefits. ~~~~~ Is There Any Objectionable Material in this game? ~~~~~ We're sure someone somewhere can find something objectionable with this game. We just can't find anything remotely objectionable. ~~~~~ Is Chain Pop / Chain 3 fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? ~~~~~ Are these games challenging? We do not think these games are overly challenging. We find them a little simplistic. But this is not a bad thing as children can get the hang of this. As the levels are short, there really isn't much a grind. ~~~~~ What are the pros and cons of Chain Pop / Chain 3? ~~~~~ Pros: A nice twist on the Match 3 games. Quick, relatively easy levels. A child-safe game. Cons: No music or sound for Chain Pop. Chain Pop has levels which repeat. The game is repetitive. What is the Bottom Line? These games are nice to have in your library. These make for nice games for when one has a couple minutes or when one desires a light brain puzzle game.

~~~~~ What is Cooking Quest? ~~~~~ Cooking Quest takes place in your typical medieval world where all recipes (cooking) has been lost. The player is then embarked on a quest to rediscover cooking and spread this around the world, getting rich in the process. In the process, you hire heroes to gather ingredients and hire cooks to do the actual cooking while the player sells the delicious meals. ~~~~~ Is Cooking Quest Pay to Win? What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? ~~~~~ So far, we've encountered only one mandatory ad, mostly as a quest to show how it can be done. We suspect that watching these ads and/or paying money will speed things up and that one can play the full game as a free-to-play player. ~~~~~ Is There Any Objectionable Material in this game? ~~~~~ Heroes do defeat monsters using swords. This content is not central to the game and even watching this, this feels cartoony, seeing how the monsters are sugar cubes. We do not feel that this is a reason to not play this game. ~~~~~ Is Cooking Quest fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? ~~~~~ After 30 minutes, we feel we are just starting to learn the game. We like the idea of cooking being the main theme of a long quest game instead of just killing random monsters. We have not found this game to be challenging - yet. We suspect that may come later on. We have not found this game to be a grind - yet. We suspect the cooking time to increase and the ingredient count per dish to increase making this game more of a grind. ~~~~~ What are the pros and cons of Cooking Quest? ~~~~~ Pros: Different type of Explore-the-World adventure game. Graphics reminiscent of early console games. Feels like an old school computer game instead of an app. Cons: Cloud save preferred. Can get a bit boring. Bottom Line: This game will interest players who want a more deep experience than a match 3, jigsaw puzzle or Tetris-type of game. School-aged children can pick this game up and include it in their collection of games.

Heroic Missions are unlocked once the player has completed the requisite fifty (50) levels in adventure mode - through Tier 10 Map 5. In order to clear each Heroic Mission, each boss must be defeated by a leader from each faction. In other words, five (5) separate defeats. This is made more difficult as the mini levels for each boss is increased by ten (10), in addition to other unique effects that these bosses have. We show how to defeat each boss with each and every faction. When defeating a heroic boss, the player receives a major tome of the leader's faction. +Timestamps 00:00 General Strategies 00:10 Alliance 01:47 Beast 02:50 Blackrock 04:26 Horde 05:58 Undead

This is the idle game "The Tower". This is a run at Tier 4.

~~~~~ What is Chain Pop / Chain 3? ~~~~~ Chains 3 is a match 3 game where one must rotate a link of chain to create a chain link of at least three (3) links. Chain Pop is a match 3 game where one must move a chain link to create a chain link of at least three (3) links. This is a different twist on your generic match 3 game. We appreciate that. ~~~~~ Is Chain 3 / Chain Pop to Win? What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? ~~~~~ The developers seem to be taking the standard approach here: An advertisement after a level or two. An advertisement to give extra moves or some other in-game benefit. As such, one can pay to remove these ads and receive some in-game benefits. ~~~~~ Is There Any Objectionable Material in this game? ~~~~~ We're sure someone somewhere can find something objectionable with this game. We just can't find anything remotely objectionable. ~~~~~ Is Chain Pop / Chain 3 fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? ~~~~~ Are these games challenging? We do not think these games are overly challenging. We find them a little simplistic. But this is not a bad thing as children can get the hang of this. As the levels are short, there really isn't much a grind. ~~~~~ What are the pros and cons of Chain Pop / Chain 3? ~~~~~ Pros: A nice twist on the Match 3 games. Quick, relatively easy levels. A child-safe game. Cons: No music or sound for Chain Pop. Chain Pop has levels which repeat. The game is repetitive. What is the Bottom Line? These games are nice to have in your library. These make for nice games for when one has a couple minutes or when one desires a light brain puzzle game.

What is Water Sort 2023? Water Sort 2023 is a puzzle game where the player needs to combine colored liquids (or balls) until the entire test tube (or bottle) is completely filled up. Review of the game? This is your typical Water/Ball sorting game. The graphics are OK. The music is OK. There are times though when the colors tend to be too close which can cause confusion. We would prefer more contrast so these near shades are not mistaken for the other. What about advertisements? When connected to the Internet, an advertisement will appear every 3 or so levels. This game uses a cloud save feature over local storage. So if you enter airplane mode to play, remember to connect before you close out the game to keep your progress. Any objectionable material? We have not found any objectionable material in this game. We haven't even found anything remotely close to objectionable.

~~~~~ What is Cooking Kawaii? ~~~~~ Cooking Kawaii is a time management cooking game with a sushi bar theme. ~~~~~ Is Cooking Kawaii Pay to Win? What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? ~~~~~ We've not encountered any mandatory ads. Watching advertisements will give the player temporary perks or in-game currency which can be used to upgrade the kitchen. This in turn will make levels easier. So far, we've not encountered any pay-to-win feel to the game. ~~~~~ Is There Any Objectionable Material in this game? ~~~~~ We have not found any objectionable material in this game. Although these days, we are sure someone somewhere may be offended by the use of a knife or the diversity aspects of the customers. ~~~~~ Is Cooking Kawaii fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? ~~~~~ After 15 levels, we are just beginning to get a feel for the game. We feel the challenging aspects are yet to come. Is this game a grind? Since this is a level-based game, the grind would come if levels needed to be repeated in order to obtain enough in-game currency to make necessary purchases. ~~~~~ What are the pros and cons of Cooking Kawaii? ~~~~~ Pros: Decent graphics. Children can learn the benefits of efficiency. Decent pace to the game. Cons: Game feels like it can get repetitive over time. While all games suffer from that trait, we feel that may start soon. One can “pre-prep” the base of the food items before the customer order is given. We are not sure if this is intended or not. This feels like cheating. While we know fast food restaurants will do this during busy times, this feels weird doing it in game. Bottom Line: We've seen better games and we've seen worse games. Watch the videos and make your own determination.

This is the idle game "The Tower". This is a run at Tier 5.

What does this video show? This video shows Word Connect for the levels listed in the title. What is Word Connect Pro? Word Connect Pro is a Cross-word lite game where a group of letters are given and the player needs to fill the puzzle using only those letters given. How to play The player drags the pointer across the letters to make a combination. If this combination is a word, the player will be rewarded. Review of the game? The music is relaxing. The concept is fine. This game is good for those people where English is their primary language. Some of these words may not be known to non-native English speakers. However the word list leaves much to be desired: Some words are not known to the game - like MAGE. Some words are known but their plural is not - GAME is acceptable and GAMES is not. Some words are accepted in some levels but not in others. The game considers SAGEM, GPS and DIY as words. They are not. (Sagem is the name of a French company and GPS is an acronym while DIY is shorthand for Do It Yourself.) So this game needs to reconsider its dictionary file. We used a Scrabble dictionary to find words which stumped us - and still got stumped. What about advertisements? When connected to the Internet, an advertisement will appear every 3 or so levels. This game uses a cloud save feature over local storage. So if you enter airplane mode to play, remember to connect before you close out the game to keep your progress. Any objectionable material? You have to really go deep to find anything objectionable in a word sorting game. Words like SHIFT can be rearranged to have a naughty word shown. While the word is not counted as an acceptable word, or even a bonus word, some parents would be bothered if their young child accidentally saw it. So what is the bottom line? Is this a worthwhile game? As word puzzle games go, this is not a bad game - but with the aforementioned caveats. Just be warned that this game may frustrate you at times.

Jewel Charms and clones like this are a Match-3 game. Players make matches of three (3) or more to complete objectives. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ How does this differ from the other Match 3 games out there? The graphics are pretty. Combos of 4 or more give power ups. There are other variants that make this game interesting. Jewel Charms and its clones appear to be more of a campaign type game with options - free, advertising and real money. We will progress through this game as needed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any objectionable material? As with many games, there is an attractive woman who guides you. While not objectionable in itself, there are some individuals who would not appreciate the reinforcing of negative female stereotypes. We have discovered that Jewel Planet and its clones are indeed the same game with very minor differences. It appears that one copied/stole the game from the original author, re-branded the game and have released it under their banner. We find this practice disgusting; and we do not know who the original author is. We've actually found four (4) games under the "Jewel" name. All these games can be found in the Google Play store so Google hasn't discovered any is clone of the other.

Block Blast is a game reminiscent of old 8-bit console games where the player needs to slide a block on a rising stack of blocks over its color. Once there is a match, then the entire row disappears. This goes on until the top block reaches the top of the screen. This is one of those situations where the descriptions which will make sense once you see the video. This game has no advertisements. This game has no objectionable material. This game feels like a proof-of-concept project which was released. Probably one of those code-camp challenges and the author just released it because the author could. A tutorial or instruction screen would be nice but not really needed as you can figure out the game fairly quickly. So what's the bottom line? As a code challenge, this game passes. The game works. This game has music. This game has no bugs that we were able to see. As a game though, this game will get boring very quickly. How could the game be made better? We are not sure. Making the block rise faster doesn't make the game challenging. That just makes it difficult and frustrating.

This is the idle game "The Tower". This is a run at Tier 5.

~~~~~ What is Connect? ~~~~~ Connect is a tile match puzzle game where the player removes like tiles that are adjacent to each other or can be reached by drawing an unobstructed path between the tiles. ~~~~~ Is Connect Pay to Win? What about in-game advertisements? How many are there? How intrusive are they? Do you get anything for enduring them? ~~~~~ We have not encountered any advertising or payment structure in this game. Games without those features are few and far between and we celebrate those games. ~~~~~ Is There Any Objectionable Material in this game? ~~~~~ We're sure someone somewhere can find something objectionable with this game. We just can't find anything remotely objectionable. ~~~~~ Is Connect fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? ~~~~~ Connect is a good “change of pace” type of game. This is a game where can you play when you have a few minutes to kill. We wouldn't use the word “challenging”; but this game can get frustrating. We wouldn't use the word “grind”; but this game can get repetitive. ~~~~~ What are the pros and cons of Connect? ~~~~~ Pros: Easy to play. Young children can play this game. Simple mechanics. Generous number of reshuffles granted - eight (8). Cons: No soothing background music. No music at all. Only two (2) tile skins are given. Not really a con as many games of this type typically have one (1) skin. A couple more would be nice. Same with the background; even a color change would be appreciated.

Heroic Missions are unlocked once the player has completed the requisite fifty (50) levels in adventure mode - through Tier 10 Map 5. In order to clear each Heroic Mission, each boss must be defeated by a leader from each faction. In other words, five (5) separate defeats. This is made more difficult as the mini levels for each boss is increased by ten (10), in addition to other unique effects that these bosses have. We show how to defeat each boss with each and every faction. When defeating a heroic boss, the player receives a major tome of the leader's faction. +Timestamps 00:00 General Strategies 00:10 Alliance 01:44 Beast 04:40 Blackrock 05:58 Horde 08:44 Undead

The Big Wave Beach was offered between April 14, 2024 through April 27, 2024. 50 Sea-shroom seeds, 2 pinatas and 25 Electric Peel seeds are awarded for completing this event. These 15 levels are based the arrival of Beach weather. Rather than do all 15 levels using the same strategy, we showcase a different one for each level - all of which can be done with just the core plants. So you can choose the strategy which best suits your play-style and available plants. • Selected means plant occupies a seed slot. • Given means the plant is on the lawn. • Chosen means what we selected. +Timestamps 00:00 Level 1 - Lily Pad and Sea-shroom selected. Some plants are given. (Has intro dialogue) 01:28 Level 2 - Lily Pad and Sea-shroom selected. Some plants are given. Peashooter selected. 02:48 Level 3 - Electric Peel given and selected. 04:40 Level 4 - Lily Pad and Electric Peel selected. Lily Pad given. 06:45 Level 5 - Lily Pad, Bowling Bulb and Tangle Kelp selected. Lily Pad and Bowling Bulb given. 07:58 Level 6 - Lily Pad and Electric Peel selected and given. 09:27 Level 7 - Lily Pad and Guacodile selected and given. 10:49 Level 8 - Sea Flora, Guacodile and Lily Pad selected and given. 11:51 Level 9 - Scaredy-shroom and Electric Peel selected. Lightning Reed given. 13:16 Level 10 - Lily Pad selected. Pokra and Tangle Kelp selected and given. 14:35 Level 11 - Snow Pea and Lily Pad selected. 16:27 Level 12 - Lily Pad given and selected. Protect given Draftodils on column 1. Lighting Reed chosen. 17:53 Level 13 - Sea-shroom and Toadstool selected. 19:38 Level 14 - Lily Pad given and selected. Electric Peel and Buttercup selected. 21:46 Level 15 - Lily Pad given and selected. Sea-shroom, Electric Peel and Tangle Kelp selected. Has outro dialogue..

This is all the dialogue for this thymed event, and only the dialogue. The Big Wave Beach was offered between April 14, 2024 through April 27, 2024. 50 Sea-shroom seeds, 2 pinatas and 25 Electric Peel seeds are awarded for completing this event. These 15 levels are based the arrival of Beach weather.

Explode-o-Vine - was offered between April 13, 2024 through April 20, 2024. Explode-o-Vine is a member of the Pepper-Mint family. Explode-o-Vine costs 150 Sun. (-25 Sun at levels 2, 3, 7 and 10.) Explode-o-Vine does 900 damage when planted. (+25 damage per level. +25 additional damage on levels 3, 9 and 10.) Explode-o-Vine does 1,800 damage when eaten. (+50 damage per level. +50 additional damage on levels 8, 9 and 10.) Explode-o-Vine's explosion knocks back all zombies 1.5 tiles. (+5% distance per level.) Commentary: Many plants just do one thing. Some plants do multiple things. Getting one strong effect makes a plant worth considering. When a plant does two (2) things well - it is worthy of being on the list of best plants in the game. That's what we have here. For the cost of a Cherry Bomb, Explode-o-Vine gives you half of a Cherry Bomb's damage now and a full Cherry Bomb damage when eaten. In addition, the knockback effect is strong enough to give the player time to recover. This is also a great plant to utilize on those levels where one must protect endangered plants. Vines must be eaten first so Explode-o-Vine will literally give his life to protect the endangered plant. Bottom Line: We will not sugar-coat this: GET THIS PLANT! Level 1 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 2 of 2 Survive for 3 minutes. Chosen Perk is Sun Perk. Extra Sun drops from the Sky. Score more than 10,000,000 / 15,000,000 / 20,000,000 Protect the endangered plant: not offered / Ultomato on column 4's rail-car Starting Sun = 700 / 500 / 250 Level 2 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 2 of 2 Survive for 3 minutes. Chosen Perk is Sun Perk. Extra Sun drops from the Sky. Protect the endangered plant: 6 plants Defeat Cardio Zombie not offered / 2 / 2 times. Level 3 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2 Survive the zombie attack. Chosen Perk is Shrink Zombies Survive and protect the endangered plants - Zoybean Pod on R3C3 / R3C4 / R3C6 Electrify zombies not offered / not offered / 100 times. Level 4 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2 Survive for 3 minutes. Chosen Perk is Knock back. Score more than 4,500,000 / 5,500,000 / 10,000,000 Defeat not offered /200 / 250 zombies in not offered / 180 / 180 seconds . Level 5 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2 Survive the zombie attack - Last Stand style. Chosen Perk is Float Away zombies. There are precious flowers on the lawn which can not be trampled - 2 & 3 / 3 & 4 / 4 & 5 Never have more than not offered / 15 / 15 plants +Timestamps 00:00 Level 1 - Difficulty 3 01:56 Level 2 - Difficulty 3 04:09 Level 3 - Difficulty 3 06:42 Level 4 - Difficulty 3 08:53 Level 5 - Difficulty 3