In Erik Svedäng’s Blueberry Garden, exploration is the key. This short art game gives you a pleasant slide through a world of strange swaying trees, fruit, and creatures.
Figuring out what to do in the world’s ecosystem is part of the puzzle. Try the demo first to see if you find the style enchanting. And keep in mind the game is extremely short.
Tory’s Shop ‘N Rush, from Rooster Games, follows the career of Tory as she inherits her uncle’s store. Rush to and fro in this time management retail game, ringing up customers, cleaning up messes, and helping old ladies remember what they came in to buy.
As usual, plenty of store upgrades and other useful purchases can be made with the money Tory earns for being quick on her feet.
Great Adventures: Lost in Mountains is a puzzlicious strategy game about a missing scientist. Head into the mountains with the scientist’s daughter on a rescue mission, and an attempt to keep the genius’ formula out of the clutches of the bad guys.
Solve cute logic puzzles and keep your characters fed and entertained with minor sim game elements in this interesting (and slightly short) puzzle game.
Your children have gone missing in The Mirror Mysteries, a slightly gloomy hidden object game from Big Fish Games. Never let your children play around a mysterious abandoned mansion or they might become trapped in another world!
Find hidden objects and solve puzzles to find your way through a magical world… where it’s not only your children who need saving.
Tarutaru’s Room is a new Japanese “escape the room” flash game from Lilina’s Escape, obviously based on the Tarutaru of Final Fantasy XI. Help the trapped tarutaru escape the room by fiddling with bowls, hammers, keys, and so on.
There’s almost no Japanese text, and such as is present is not required to finish the game. Be prepared for many slow cutscenes. Hint: the doll colors match those in the diary.
It’s a high school reunion for Natalie Brooks in Natalie Brooks: Mystery at Hillcrest High, a spiffy new hidden object game from Alawar. An evil former classmate plans to frame Natalie’s friend Chad for murder and steal millions to finance her gang of criminals… and their headquarters is the town high school!
Find hidden objects and solve many, many outlandish puzzles as you help Natalie foil the criminals’ evil plot. Danger awaits around every turn, but the Black Cat Gang is no match for Natalie Brooks!
Kino One sends you and spacefighter Flash Brannighan into a world filled with oldschool arcade cabinet space action, bad spelling, and worse grammar as you take on the Solak Empire.
Take command of the Kino One and save the Earth from certain destruction. Your fight will take you from our solar system all the way to the Solak homeworld. Along the way unlock arcade game minigames eerily similar to Pac-Man, Asteroids, and more.
More intense shooting action awaits in Robokill 2: Leviathan Five as your mercenary class ship, badly damaged, closes in on the Mars Leviathan Five Mining Facility to investigate biological contamination reports… This is another excellent Flash shooter from Rocksolid Arcade.
Blast anything that moves as you progress through the station’s rooms. Purchase upgrades to your weapons, armor, and special abilities. Hint: shoot crates for loot!
A demon threatens the world in Cassandra’s Journey 2: The Fifth Sun of Nostradamus, a new hidden object game from Joybits. Cassandra is a psychic and medium who discovers the world is threatened by an evil force during a continuation of her adventures with Violet.
Unlock plenty of minigames during the search for Michael, Violet’s brother.
Take a trip into the lives of Maria and her missing love, David. Broken Hearts: A Soldier’s Duty is a hidden object game about discovering the truth in past events, but you can expect to spend a lot of time playing “guess what the developer was thinking.”
Use hearts found during play to purchase games of solitaire in this heavy-handed hidden object game that never quite comes together.