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Tap Adventure: Time Travel - Beginner's Pack

In Brief

Tap Adventure: Time Travel Beginners Pack is a dlc pack for the free to play game Tap Adventure and is a RPG clicker game. We were given a similar dlc pack a few months ago called The Promo Pack, which if you missed is 50% off at the moment HERE

Suggestions:

If you win a key for Tap Adventure: Time Travel - Beginners pack please give some feedback about your opinion of the game, for example, what you liked or disliked about it, or how it could be improved from your point of view . If you don't like this genre at all, please explain why. What, improvements, if any, 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 don't don't mind playing games via Steam or miss the offer totally you can get the game 24/7 via Steam HERE. It usually costs £8.99/$11.99. You will need to instal the main game which you can get HERE for free.

Introduction:

Tap Adventure: Time Travel is an RPG clicker game in authentic Patch World. A team of heroes starts their journey through thick forests, spooky swamps, dense jungle, gold mines, timeless glaciers, and lifeless wasteland

The Beginners Pack pack includes the following:

⦁ Get powerful artifact: Chronosphere, that will boost your gain of runestones. In case, if you already have it maxed, you'll receive extra 5000 rune stones instead.
⦁ Pack of basic resources, that will be useful in any cases: 100 manacoins and 50 tokens.
⦁ Advanced set of the books: 5 Gratogorres, 3 Tome of Shields, 2 Wizard's Notes and one Summon Friend!
⦁ Also, 20 chests and keys will help you to get upgrade your new heroes!

The previous giveaway (i.e. The 'Promo Pack' included the following:
⦁ Three hero rings for new heroes: Champion, Ranger and Priest! If you already have these rings, their level will be increased by 1.
⦁ Get 100 tokens and 250 manacoins to try Mimic and Governor's Club.
⦁ For a joyous adventure you need trusted friends and some gold! 5 Gratogmorrs and 1 Summon Friend book will help you with that.
⦁ Also, 15 chests and keys will help you to get upgrade your new heroes!

Reference accessed HERE

Installation:

Once you've found your key for Tap Adventure: Time Travel - Beginners Pack (it should be sent to the email you used to enter the giveaway - it must be the email you first used to sign into the game giveaway site. If you’ve used a different email to the original or throwaway email there may be problems getting a key, because the key will be sent to either of those emails. If you have any problems use the contact form HERE. You must activate the game via your Steam client. Once activated it will be permanently tied to your Steam profile and you'll be able to install the game at any time, anywhere on any computer, so long as you can validate who you are (usually via emails etc.). If you don't have a Steam account you will first have to download and install the Steam client HERE

Then create a Steam profile/account. Once that has been completed you can input the Steam code that you've received (after completing the form filling) via the game button along the top of the Steam client, (located between friends and Help). From the drop down menu select 'Activate a product on Steam'. This opens a product activation window. Just follow the prompts to complete activation. Once the Steam code has been accepted, the game will be permanently associated with your Steam account and can be installed any time you wish.

If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Tap Adventure: Time Travel - Beginners Pack to work, please visit the problems section over in the Game Discussion forums, which I've now incorporated into the FAQ's thread, and which you can find HERE If you don't find any fixes via the FAQ's check out the Steam forums HERE. I didn't find a specific thread for Tap Adventures, but you may find feedback in the reviews section . A link to the user reviews, most of which are positive (460 reviews) can be found via a link in the top right hand corner of the Tap Adventures store page HERE

The Game:

Tap Adventure: Time Travel is an RPG clicker game in authentic Patch World. A team of heroes starts their journey through thick forests, spooky swamps, dense jungle, gold mines, timeless glaciers, and lifeless wasteland.

This journey will not be easy because the marshes and swamps are inhabited by evil goblins and ogres; vicious predators and wild brownies hide in the forests, and bloodthirsty tribes of natives and baboons fill the jungle. Local inhabitants don't like intruders: the only way to get past is to fight them!

Unlike other clicker games, you haven't a lot of heroes, you can hire only 7 of them, one for each type: Warrior, Archer, Wise Man, Rogue, Savage, Magician and Engineer. And all of them have their own skill set, that makes them unique. You can develop heroes in the different ways, more suitable for your playstyle.

There are 30 Huge epic bosses, overlords of their dominions, will stand against your heroes! They are much tougher than common enemies. But you can get nice reward, if you will be able to beat them: chests, that allow you to upgrade your heroes, runestones to craft mighty artifacts, manacoins to spend them on Mimics...

Lively jungle, wild forest, spooky swamp, grim graveyard, dark mines, cold ice mountains, majestic city, deadly barrens and mysterious crossroads. Each of these beautiful locations has its own style and charm, their own inhabitants and bosses. Explore the lands of the Patch World!

There are valuable rewards for defeating bosses, with colorful graphics and effects and a lot of gold, in fact heaps of gold! Also, you can make living Chest, meet the gambling machines of the Governor, exchange some goods for manacoins and explore the magnificent Patch World!

Reference accessed HERE

Other Reviews, Videos and a Slideshow of images:

You can see Steam community reviews of Tap Adventure: Time Travel HERE, and some videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE (Russian), HERE, HERE and HERE. I couldn't find any specific to todays dlc pack, but the videos above show you what the actual game plays like. :)

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer Avallon Alliance and the publisher Panoramik for giving away Steam keys for this Clicker RPG and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games, in this case a Steam key.

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.

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.

The rest of the information that used to be posted here can be found in the forums HERE. Don't forget, if you have an account with DOT.emu, you need to download any games you have before June, when the site closes permanently. Also, the Cubic bundle Site has now closed, however they have sent out a spread sheet of activation codes for any games you may have purchased via the Cubic bundles, so, check your emails before the email gets swallowed up by any spam filter. Finally, check out Delenns thread over in the forums HERE.

Delenn posted details of two games that you can get free at the moment. The first called Rising Storm GOTY edition (worth £14.99/$19.99), is an excellent FPS game (probably an introductory offer in view of the soon to be released Rising Storm2: Vietnam that also includes the multiplayer component of Red Orchestra 2 can be found over on the Humble Bundle siteHERE (It's free only for a short time). Once added to your Steam account it's yours forever. The other game is a retro side scrolling action platformer called Biomenace (originally released in 1993) that is a available for free on GOG GOGand Steam.

Also available to play free all weekend until Sunday evening (UK time) is the wasteland game Fallout 4. You need a Steam account to be able to install and play both the main game and all dlc available totally free all weekend; you'll find it HERE. If you choose to purchase it, there's 67% off until Monday evening (6pm GMT).

If you spend $3 in the Indie Gala store you also get Raiden IV: OverKill worth $14.99 for free. For example if you buy the Enemy Front game which is discounted by 90% and the separate multiplayer map pack dlc (discounted 85%) for a total of $3.73 you get $49.97 worth of games. If you are into flying games, a couple of more dollars will get you both Dogfight 1942 and Combat wings: Battle of Britain. There are loads more deals with big discounts HERE (both 85% off).