The Snow Fable

In Brief

A match three with several different modes of play.

Installation:

The Snow Fable

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)

C:\Program Files (x86)\MyPlayCity.com\The Snow Fable

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)

Introduction:

Match tokens to break a curse that has cast a frozen pall over a once warm and lush land! With each step of your journey, you'll gain access to new game modes and bonuses and earn achievements for a job well done! With beautiful hand-drawn graphics, simple point-and-click controls, and special logic levels, The Snow Fable will warm your heart for hours on end!

Reference accessed HERE. 14th January 2018

The Game:

Most Match 3 games focused on the gameplay rather than the story, however, The Snow Fable focused equally on both aspects. You are taking on the role of a cute, young girl who finds her parents frozen in place along with the rest of the town – she then has to take a journey to break this curse accompanied by her magical friends. As said, the story in The Snow stays with you all the way through the game and it is very nice to follow, in fact, there are cut scenes shown every so often.

The presentation in The Snow Fable is simply stunning. The hand-drawn art is gorgeous and supremely beautiful while the visual effects on the Match 3 boards are amazing as well. The background music is relaxing and not repetitive; moreover, we love the track played during the Main Menu very much. The Snow also includes pretty nice voice overs which is unusual for a Match 3 game.

In Story mode, each level of Match 3 is different from another in terms of tasks to be completed and objectives of each level. In most level, once a Match 3 board is completed – you will be rewarded an item to be used to continue your adventure. Apart from the Story mode, there are over six more modes you can choose to play including the wanted Relaxed mode – some are exciting and challenging while some are more relaxing.

The Story mode consists of 40 levels which is relatively short compared to other games in the genre. Furthermore, expert Match 3 players will definitely find The Snow Fable to be fairly slow-paced and maybe a little bit too calm.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by All About Games on September 7th 2013. Reposted by Whiterabbit-uk 14thJanuary 2018.

Other Reviews and Videos of The Snow Fable:

You can see Big Fish community reviews of The Snow Fable HERE and more information in the Big Fish forums HERE. There are several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE and HERE.

Conclusion:

A pleasant match three game with several modes of play and pleasant game play. If you are an aficionado of Match Three games you’ll love this. If your new to them it’s a great introduction to the genre and if you’ve had enough of match three’s still try this one, you may be surprised.

Suggestions:

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There are thousands of subscribers to the game giveaway of the day every weekend which makes this an ideal forum for giving developers new or fresh 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 need re-skinning, or maybe you've just had enough of the genre and want to see something different or something with more originality? Giving such feedback instead of saying nothing or just saying this game is rubbish or good may bring more developers to the site, which could mean more and better games. Would 'you' give away thousands of copies of a game (or extra content for a game) away to a community that complains all the time instead of giving useful feedback? It only needs a few moments of your time. I believe this site could be transformed into a hub for developers to visit and take away useful information on what you the consumer wants in their games; if only the community would be more forthcoming in their opinions of the games they are getting for free. If the giveaway doesn't grab you, then please move on to the next giveaway, or check out the forums HERE, HERE and HERE, where a few members of the community post details of various free games and free game sites as well as links to various indie bundle sites etc; you never know, you may find something that really interests you.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via MyPlayCity 24/7 HERE; or If you prefer to purchase the game you can get it HERE via Big Fish Games.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting The Snow Fable to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try whitelisting the setup.gcd file. In the almost 11 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank MyPlayCity for giving away The Snow Fable and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If The Snow Fable doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums).