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Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit Giveaway
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Game Giveaway of the day — Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit

Celebrate the holidays with Amelie!
$9.99 EXPIRED
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Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit was available as a giveaway on December 24, 2016!

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An arcade game combining a courier simulator and a space ship captain.

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Celebrate the holidays with Amelie! Decorate and upgrade different Christmas cafes, prepare a variety of yuletide favorites for your guests, and earn enough money to fill Santa's sleigh! With simple but challenging gameplay, delightful holiday graphics and three Time Management modes to master, Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit is your ticket to Christmas cheer!

  • Incredible bonuses;
  • Fantastic action;
  • Decorate the Christmas cafes!

System Requirements:

Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10; CPU: 1.0 GHz; RAM: 1024 MB; DirectX: 8.0; Hard Drive: 140 MB

Publisher:

MyPlayCity

Homepage:

http://www.bigfishgames.com/games/6100/amelies-cafe-holiday-spirit/

File Size:

132 MB

Price:

$9.99

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Thank you to all who took the time to post feedback about last weeks games and congratulations to the hundred lucky community members who won a key for the Chicken Assassins game. :)


Please only post comments about the game being given away today; other comments either not appropriate, or not about the game may be deleted; however a little light banter among community members and with the moderator to keep this a friendly place to visit will be allowed, and will be judged by the moderator as to whether it is suitable or not to be left.
I am posting this in light of the massive increase in negative comments, inappropriate comments and spam that have occurred over the past several months since the site was updated and in particular since the site started to give away games from the Steam world. I truly believe that if we get lots of decent feedback about the games we get here, more developers will be happy to give away their games. Seeing lots of complaints instead of feedback about the game will not persuade developers to give their games away for free. So please bear this in mind when posting your comments. Negative feedback about the game is welcomed as that can also be very constructive for developers, however, complaining about the way the site is operating or problems about downloading or installing the games should be directed to the giveawayoftheday contact form which I've linked to HERE, alternatively, if the problem is game related and it is late in the day (I can't moderate 24 hours a day), please also post your issue in the forums where you may get a response from the community. Often, such problems are related to your computers set up. i.e. your security may block the installation (for example quite a few game giveaways I've installed have been blocked by my copy of Zemana Anti-malware suite) Also please read the moderation policy which can be found HERE and/or the FAQ's thread HERE




Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit



In Brief

A standard time management game.



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Suggestions:

Whether you like or dislike Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit please give some feedback about your opinion of the game, for example, what you liked or disliked about the game, and how it could be improved from your point of view. If you don't like this genre at all, please explain why. What improvements would change your opinion? There are thousands of subscribers to the game giveaway of the day every weekend which makes this an ideal forum for giving developers ideas as to what their consumers (i.e you) would like to see in a game. For example, you could suggest extra content such as better or more original mini games, or a level editor that you would like to see that would make it more appealing to you. Maybe you think the graphics are a little dated and are in need of re skinning, or maybe you've just had enough of the genre and want to see something different or something with more originality?



If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via MyPlayCity 24/7 HERE.


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Installation:


The game downloads to a 132 MB zip file that unzips to four files, (a setup.gcd security wrapper, the set up file and a read me). Those with multiple hard drives are able to save games on any drive they wish. The newly installed game is 137 MB in size. The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed by the user if you prefer:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MyPlayCity.com\Amelie's Cafe - Holiday Spirit

Four shortcuts are installed to the desktop. three of which can be safely deleted (Play Online Games, MyPlayCity Games and shortcuts to a free online game which vary each week). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure you uncheck the box when the additional tasks window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window)







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Introduction:

Welcome to Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit! Would you like to earn money to make your Christmas holidays happy, pleasant and full of fun? If yes, then you should immediately take part in this nice activity. New visitors are coming every minute and there is no place for rest now. Be fast, careful and polite with those who visit this or that café to earn money and get nice gifts. Serve the customers and pay attention to the people who're already waiting for your help. Your task is to attract more and more clients, so do your best serving people and making their rest comfortable. Let them all feel the atmosphere of Christmas and Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit. As your cooks are ready with all those salads, chicken and mashed potatoes you should rush to the kitchen and carry the dishes to the customers. You'll need energy to cope with the difficulties of this job. Try to serve as many visitors as you can to get high scores and wonderful gifts. Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit will provide you with bright emotions while you pass levels and mini-games with realistic details and capturing game play. Accomplish your goals in each of 50 levels and become a real specialist in the field of holiday's preparation. You'll definitely enjoy this game and spend hours of playing surrounded with bright graphics and nice music. Download this game right now and learn what Santa has in store for you! Perhaps your Christmas stocking is already full of gifts! Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit is all about this!



Reference accessed HERE. 2016






If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit to work please visit the problems section, which I've now incorporated into the FAQ's thread, and which you can find HERE



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The Game:


How many Amelie’s cafes have you already managed? Have you tried Amelie's Cafe: Summer Time or Amelie's Cafe: Halloween? If you’re Amelie’s fan you can enjoy the well-known story-line decorated according to the Christmas playing Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit. And if you’re a new comer, welcome to the Amelie’s world! Taking into account that Alawar Games has already cut its teeth on the café theme, the new release will disappoint neither experienced players, nor the newbies.

As usual to in all the games of Amelie’s Café series, you’ll help the heroine do everything from serving customers to decorating the cafe in order to bring new customers in. The only thing that differs from the previous games is that all the decorations will correspond with the Christmas. What is the Holiday Spirit means to you? And for Amelie it means the workers wearing Santa’s hats, X-mas trees, gifts and many other things that will be clear to you while making progress through the game.



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You’ve been playing time-management games for so often that you doubt that Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit will be challenging for you? No problem! You just have to choose Santa Mode. Santa Mode is an advanced difficulty mode in which customers arrive earlier and lose patience faster. Players who beat this mode earn a commemorate mark. Don’t even ask me what it goes about – I spent too much time managing that so hardly I’d give away this secret for free.

Amelie's Cafe the Holiday Spirit starts as every time management game does, Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit will make you move as fast as you can and decide on quickly. If you succeed in that, you’ll be provided with the upgrades. You may either renovate the café’s interior or make your workers work harder or neater. By the way the amount of the cookers will increase and if you think, that this will make your task easier, you are mistaken. At the very beginning you are supposed to serve smashed potato, turkey and salad or a combination of two of the mentioned dishes. Then a girl cooking a kind of muffin appears. And then you have to serve candies. And then… But Amelie is still the only one to serve!


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At the bottom of your screen there is a special line where the images of coins, brushes and candy canes arrive. If you click any of them it disappears, and the rest three of a kind that makes 3 in a raw improve your current situation. Three brushes in a raw make all the tables of your workers clean in a moment. Three candy canes in a raw make all your visitors happy and pleased even if you’re delaying their order (that is my favorite, by the way). And tree coins in a raw make your tips bigger.

The name of the game Holiday Spirit describes it perfect. I believe that it creates the proper mood for the winter holidays. Combining both the spirit and action it might be a great choice for a December evening!



Edited reference accessed HERE. Reviewed on Gamemile 24th Dec 2010.


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Other Reviews, Videos and a Slideshow of images showing the How to Play pages:


You can see community reviews of Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit HERE and more information in the Big fish forums HERE


if you want to see some game play you can see some videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also see a slideshow of almost 60 images HERE



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Conclusion:

I haven't played this version of amelia's Cafe long enough, nor tried all modes to justify a conclusion. From the short time I played, it seems basically the same as previous versions of the game (Amelie's Cafe, Amelie's Cafe: Summer Time and Amelie's Cafe: Halloween) with the addition of the Santa mode



I'd like to take this opportunity to thank MyPlayCity for giving away Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit minus the usual MPC checkboxes and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games, in this case Steam keys.




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Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:



The problems section that used to be posted here in the Game review is now included in the Game Discussion FAQ's thread; which you can find HERE.

I've updated the games section that used to be posted with the review. The thread is now called 'Weekly round up of game deals', formerly the games section of the weekly reviews. You can find the new thread (which I've posted in the sticky section of the game discussion forums to make it easier to find if you are perusing the game discussion forums) HERE.




If today's game was not to your liking, you may find other games either free or for less than the price of a cup of coffee (from your favorite coffee house) via the 'Weekly Roundup of Game Deals' thread which I've posted a link to above, or HERE.
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The latest free game over on Origin is still the old classic Dungeon Keeper. You can get it HERE and see a couple of videos of game play HERE and HERE Please note that you do require the Origin game platform to be able to download and install the game.


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Assassins Creed III is still available as part of Ubisofts 30th anniversary celebrations. Last weekends deals included all the games already given away since earlier this year, but it was time limited and has now ended. For Assassins Creed III (an open world medieval first person/third person action/adventure game you do require a free Ubisoft account and the free uPlay client installed to get the game, which you will find HERE.

Reply   |   Comment by Stephen Brown  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)
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Getting a link via email does not work!! Now for those people smart enough to NOT bother with facebook, guess you don't want us to have access to your site so I should just loose the URL, sad as I've been getting stuff off and on for many years!

Reply   |   Comment by WaveThemes  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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I'll pass on this one but am sure it's a fun one.

I didn't want to pass the moment to thank you and everyone involved here for the cool funny games we get through the year.

Merry Christmas to those celebrating (I don't)

Reply   |   Comment by Anu  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)
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This was given away almost 2 years ago. Here are the older reviews

https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/amelies-cafe-holiday-spirit/

Reply   |   Comment by Cooper  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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Amelie's Cafe: Holiday Spirit
A MPC and Alawar, game that downloads and installs well on Win10 Pro x64, and is a great one for the kids. Quite challenging at times but I have learned my daughter would be a business mogul if she wasn't handicapped and wheel chair bound! As she has made money that I don't think I would have been able to!
A holiday themed game that is really different from the usual fare, and since I only helped for most of it I am going by what she tells me for much of this ;) The only thing we have run into is every great once she says it will bring up a screen in Russian first, before converting to english, and that has only happened 2x so far, it must be Russian game designers who wrote it, but it hasn't been a problem.
A Big Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone out there, may you have a blessed one ;)

Reply   |   Comment by JBurt  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)
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Happy Holidays to all, and a BIG thank you to Stephen, the GG/GAOTD team, and MyPlayCity. My granddaughter and I will enjoy playing this one together. So nice to be able try out programs and games from different developers and publishers. I have bought a few, found some real stinkers that got deleted right away, and also have a nice collection of fun and useful programs. The community here is mostly very helpful, even those with little experience can tip off developers that something needs to be clearer or easier. Those with more experience can help developers see missing features or problems, or competitors they may have missed. I hope this site continues to be a win for everyone for a long time!

Reply   |   Comment by mr.dave  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
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Merry Christmas White Rabbit and all the giveaway team. Thank you for the games and software over the last year.

Reply   |   Comment by Helen  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
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Thank you MPC for all the games you have given away during the course of this year and to GGOTD for facilitating those giveaways. Happy Holidays to you all and a superb 2017 ahead. To WhiterabbitUK, Happy Christmas to you and your loved ones and a best wishes for a healthy, wealthy and happy 2017. To each and every one who visits and reads this, Happy Holidays and a blessed 2017. :)

Reply   |   Comment by Hughjocapivvy  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)
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Thanks to GOTD and Whiterabbit for your continued efforts to provide quality games for the masses. I'm not going to download this one since I already have it from last year's giveaway, however I can say that I found it to be a smooth-running game without any real problems (that I saw), other than the fact that as I age, I find Time Management to be an everyday problem with me, and I tend to shy away from this genre. I don't recall who originally said this, but it's true: "Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes."
Happy Christmas to all!

Reply   |   Comment by bebop  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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Hi, Stephen/WR! First of all, best Christmas wishes to you and your family, and as always thanks for your dedication on this site.

A small detail which I didn't notice in your comments: This game has been given away on this site before, when it was offered by Alawar, on Jan.4, 2015.

Reply   |   Comment by alexyu  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
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Some may already have this game as it was given away on January 4, 2015:
https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/amelies-cafe-holiday-spirit/

Reply   |   Comment by Trying 2 b Helpful  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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Downloaded quickly and installed without any problems. Windows 10.

Haven't time to play the game today, but I know what to expect from others in this series - it'll be a bit of a clickfest, and a bit of fun.

Thanks GGOTD and MPC, and Happy Christmas to everybody from me. :)

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Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Reply   |   Comment by Mum  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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Setup.exe crash. I cant install the game.

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Hello Alex

Follow the link to the FAQ's thread, which I've provided in my review above. Also, try installing the game again, but with your security temporarily turned of, or white list the games executable before trying to install it. I regularly have the same issue which is caused by my copy of Zemana Antimalware. If you are still unable to install the game, immediately after trying, open up the event viewer (accessed either by typing 'event viewer' in the search field, or opening up the Control Panel), then check the event logs to see if any error messages can be found related to the installation.

Reply   |   Comment by alex  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)
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Activates but does not install. Clicking on setup goes straight to activate screen!!

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Hi Steve, I hope you see this message before the giveaway ends. It may be your security that is blocking or has deleted the games exe file. Mine deleted the install file when I first tried to install it. I had to turn off my security and re-download the game.

Reply   |   Comment by steve  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)

Hi steve. :-)

GAOTD users reported problems with these antiviruses/firewalls, in past months/years: Avast, Avg, BitDefender, Comodo, Kaspersky, Norton/Symantec, pados.hu TinyWall, Zemana antilogger/antimalware.
If you have one of those AV, you could try these possible solutions:
1) If the package has been correctly downloaded, right-click it, click properties and:
- Win8, 8.1, 10 users --> tick/select the unblock checkbox, click apply, click ok.
- WinXP, vista, 7 --> click the unblock button, click apply, click ok.
2) If the package has been correctly downloaded, put the setup.exe and the setup.gcd (or their entire folder) in the whitelist of your antivirus
3) Disable the real-time/on-access scanning, just the time to download/install the software (then re-enable that function)
4) Disable your AV completely, just the time to download/install the software (then re-enable it)
5) Boot windows in safe mode with networking, just the time to download/install the software (sometimes this is necessary with kaspersky antivirus)

By the way in these months/years, almost all the engines on antivirus web services (virustotal, metadefender, jotti, virscan) that are problematic for some GAOTD users, i.e. AVG, AVIRA, AVAST BITDEFENDER, KASPERSKY, (NORTON) SYMANTEC, showed NO PROBLEMS.

Hope this helps.

Reply   |   Comment by xilolee  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)
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Hi everybody and Whiterabbit-UK. :-)

No problems during download.
No problems detected after doing scans with the tools present in my machine (I won't repeat them because I didn't change them).
Web services (virustotal, metadefender, jotti, virscan) found the usual false positives for GAOTD setup.exe.
No problems during installation.
No problems also after doing scans post-installation (with the same tools).
I had to disable the display scaling in the shortcut of the game (properties-compatibility tab) to correctly view the game window; I didn't notice any other glitches.

I'm using:
- Windows 10 home/standard x64, DEP always on, custom scaling 150%.
- Resolution 1920x1080, color depth 32bit, refresh rate 60Hz.

I liked the halloween version of this game (and I finished it), hence I think I'll like this one too. :)

Thanks to the GAOTD team, in particular to Whiterabbit-UK!
Follow the white rabbit, guys!
Thanks for the game to Alawar, BigFishGames, MyPlayCity!

Reply   |   Comment by xilolee  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)
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