New Yankee in Santa's Service:

In Brief:
New Yankee in Santa's Service is our second late to the party Christmas themed game, three days after the twelve days of Christmas ended..

It's one of many time management themed games that include building elements that we have been given over the years since this site started back in 2006. Using Santa's helpers (elves) clean up the area by removing rocks and piles of wood that block pathways, also collect wood by chopping down trees, then use the wood to repair bridges. Plant vegetable gardens then harvest them to keep your elves from starving. You'll also find food hampers to help with your food resources. Finally to be able to complete many of the objectives you'll also need to mine the gold scattered around each level and build more homes for your elves to increase your work force.

Santa has tamed all the polar bears that live up in the North, but you still need to keep an eye on them because they may steal your valuable crops and food hampers, which the elves require for sustenance so that they can complete objectives in time. If a bear does try to steal food, rapidly click on it several times, this will alert Santa, who then scares them away. You also need to beware of other more insidious baddies such as ice witches and rabid snowmen that you can also scared away by the same method. Each level has specific objectives to complete. Ultimately you have to find Santa's reindeers so that he can deliver his gifts to the children of the world.

Complete all objectives before the time runs out. The quicker you complete them, the better chance of being rewarded with a gold cup. If you finish over the gold cup time, then settle for a silver cup. If you don't want to be stressed by the timer and decide to take things easy; then, settle for a bronze. :)

You can speed up your helpers by collecting mana phials, which are used to activate spells by Santa via the wishing well. Once you have enough Mana, click on the well to activate the spell.

The game was originally given away by Alawar Entertainment on the 20th December 2015, where it received a positive 78% from 256 votes with 29 comments which you can see HERE. We've also had others in the New Yankees series for example New Yankee 7: Deer Hunters (July 2021), New Yankee in King Arthur's Court 5 (Nov 2020), and the original New Yankee in King Arthur's Court twice HERE (Nov 2019) & HERE (June 2017).

You can see a few videos of game play HERE, HERE and one via the Steam store page HERE.

You can also see some Steam community reviews of the game HERE as well as Big Fish Community members feedback HERE.

Conclusion:
We've had lots of these Time Management (TM) games with a building mechanic included, featuring elves and dwarves over the many years this site has been running. They are the only other Time Management game that I find enjoyable together with the early Farm Frenzy games, because the time pressures don't feel as stressful as other time management games like the food preparation and running restaurant type TM games.

Overall, I recommend downloading this game, it'll keep you occupied for a few weekends at the very least. Levels do become increasingly more difficult to get gold, but I'm not too bothered about that side of the game. I already dropped from Gold in level one to silver for the next few, though I've not yet been awarded a bronze ;)

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found 3 hits (VBA32 Jiangmin & BitDefenderTheta) from 67 antimalware engines. These (number) are amongst only several antimalware suites that often tag TooMKY Games compared to most better known and more reliable antimalware engines, so it's almost certainly a false positive.

You can see the completed scanHERE.