Unfortunately I am unable to post a full review of today's time management game due in part to spending most of yesterday ensuring my daughter was fully packed for her university course,which starts on Monday as well as finishing off fixing up her gaming laptop, which required updating with new SSD's and an operating system. We are taking her to her accommodation early this morning, (we will be on our way before this game goes live and expect to be away until early evening), so I don’t have time to play this game for more than a few moments (between 0.30am to 1.15am) this morning.

Hidden World

In Brief

A time management game with an evil wizard. :)

Introduction:

An evil wizard has attacked the Hidden World, a kingdom of beauty and enchantment, leaving a path of destruction in his wake! Your mission: Gather the forces of good and repair the broken land one village at a time! As you collect the resources you need, you must also fend off the wizard's followers, employ power-ups that give your workers a boost, and complete the renovations before time runs out. The citizens of Hidden World are counting on you, so don't delay!

Reference accessed HERE. 15th September 2019

The Game:

I don’t usually enjoy playing TM games, but I found this one quite entertaining and easy to play, due in part to the non timed relaxed mode that is available as an option, which I definitely prefer; there's also an active timed mode; which I rarely enjoy and always feel stressed out after playing timed modes, especially if I keep missing out on the awards because I was too slow. From the look of the graphics and resolution of my screen captures, this game looks quite old and does not support wide screen monitors (If playing on the default full screen, at least a third of the left and right sides of the monitor will be black, leaving a squarish window); though in windowed mode the black panels disappear. You’ll also notice as the game boots up that your screen resolution will change to a much lower resolution unless you are still using an old CRT monitor (evident because your desktop icons will increase in size), but this will revert back to normal when you close the game down.

I scrolled through several pages of You Tube videos and couldn’t find any videos of game play; however, there is a full review of Hidden World over on Gamezebo, which you can find HERE; that says, the game is fast-paced with a long playing time, a fair (generous) timer if playing the action mode, and with gorgeous visuals and a motivating reward system for fulfilling bonus tasks. It also has a unique and interesting mechanic w.r.t. the main game elements. The only negatives said were that towards the end of the game levels started to feel a little repetitive and for the City Building part of the game a wider choice of buildings would have been welcome. Personally for an arcade game of this type, I thought the city building part was actually one of the best I'd seen in any arcade game, apart from maybe the Build-a-Lot series of games, but they were dedicated city building arcade games whereas Hidden World includes a more diverse collection of game modes. That said, the city building does not compare to any of the AAA city building games such as the Sim City, Cities and Anno franchise as well as other AAA city building games. I’ve also posted screen captures of the early part of the game, but I've not gone into any detail w.r.t. the game play as I didn't have time unfortunately. hopefully someone from the community will post a synopsis of the game..... hopefully. :).

If today’s game doesn’t appeal to you and you still need a game fix, there are always alternative freebies available, or you could check out some of the indie bundles that are available via Indie Gala and the Humble bundle; there are lads of different indie bundles available , but the two i mentioned consistently include decent games that are worth buying, especially at the prices being asked, whereas 'most' of the other indie bundles that are still available tend to include a lot of those £0.79p games most of which are rubbish, though there are exceptions such as the Fanatical bundles (formerly called Bundle Stars). The latest Epic game available for free is Conarium (an atmospheric and chilling Lovecraftian walking simulator horror adventure game worth £15). Next week; Thursday 19th September the game changes to another one that hasn't been announced yet. Also, check out Indie Gala for lots of freebies (20+) HERE. They add new games regularly (at least 2 or 3 every week) via their Developers showcase section; whereas some are removed. you can add them to your indie Gala library and/or download a free standing version of each game (some even have Mac versions to download). Recent additions include HERE (a bloody love story between Bunny and Carrot not suitable for children due to blood and gore, despite having a childish graphic style), Lucid Nina, Journey of a Roach, Welcome To... Chichester OVN 2 : Master Tormentor Grendel Jinx !?, Hell Cat Redux, Lady’s Hentai Mosaic, Pixel Hentai mosaic; (some of the latter titles include adult content), plus Land it Rocket (moon lander type game), Poly Golf a simple top down golf game), Pixel Hentai Mosaic (adult content), Five Nations (A futuristic real-time strategy game that follows the events of a mind-bending opera of space about the survival of humanity.) and Snake Eyes Dungeon (a dice based dungeon crawler).

Ubisoft have a special on at the moment HERE that ends on the 30th September, where you can play loads of AAA games for free by signing up for a monthly deal. you can cancel the deal before the end of the free period and there’s no charge. Otherwise it costs $12.99 per month thereafter. Games include all the Assassin Creed games, all the Tom Clancy games, plus loads more games such as the Crew, Rayman Origins, Watch dogs 1 and 2, Prince of Persia franchise, Heroes of Might & Magic franchise, Anno' franchise, From Dust, Track-mania franchise, and loads more (around 200 games to choose from).