Mac Games

Azada 2, called “Azada: Ancient Magic” is without doubt one of the best games of 2008. It received several awards, and has a really innovative mix between puzzle game and adventure game. The game is divided into “book”. Each book tells a story, some are very classical ones like Dracula, Robinson Crusoe, and more. Inside the book there are several pages, and each page has an enigma, or items to pick up and put in the inventory.

You can then reuse those objects to solve quests and puzzles in other pages, until you find a card that will let you close the book and mark it as solved! This innovative gameplay is really brilliant because takes away the tedious walking from one location to the other (typical of many adventures) and keeps the interest alive with literally thousands of different puzzles to solve, from logic to skill ones.

I warmly recommend anyone to try the game at least once, even if you aren’t a fan of those kind of games: you could fall in love with it!

DQ Tycoon is a very original time management/tycoon game. In the game you have to help Emily to run a dairy store. Will she climb the ranks to become the most prominent business manager in town ? It’s up to you to manage his shop, and eventually hire more staff to expand his business and open new stores around the globe.

Similarly to Chocolatier reviewed last week, this game has several minigames, all in one, that contribute to improve the overall game longevity. Indeed, for example in between levels you can shop for upgrades like faster machines, play a cake-decorating mini-game to restock the fridge.  Another difference with previous time management games, is that even if a new shop gets added every week in the game, you still have to run the older ones!

Overall isn’t a bad game, even if it doesn’t particularly excel in the time management panorama.