pennmom36's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:3.7
- Helpful Votes:358,445
- Reviews Submitted:4717
- First Review:December 10, 2012
- Most Recent Review:May 24, 2025
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Trainz Trouble
Keep the wheels in motion and avoid the obstacles!
Overall rating
4
/
5
33 of 37 found this review helpful
The Trouble iz I Like Crashing The Trainz Better!
PostedOctober 25, 2013
pennmom36
fromChoo Choo I'm coming through!
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Nevertales: The Beauty Within Collector's Edition
(293)Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This is one of those strategy games that will have you playing for hours at at time. It is a very simple game but surprisingly very face paced. The goal is to have the trains end up in their color matching station by changing the directional arrows on the tracks, keep in mind that you want to accomplish this goal with as few taps or changes as possible. You must blow up rocks on the tracks by choosing which piles to blow up on which paths with a limited number or dynamite. You may need to pause one train with a stop signal to avoid crashes and, the trains will automatically stop at the correctly colored banks to load up on gold and you must wait until all the money has been loaded before restarting the train. I must admit I crashed several trainz (and it was cool!) you do get time to study the path before starting but because you have to react quickly and guide several trains, you are probably going to crash a few yourself. You can replay the level or skip the level or just watch em crash, it's up to you now, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood
Enter Ravenwood Park and discover the secrets hidden in the mists...
Overall rating
5
/
5
142 of 159 found this review helpful
Best Hidden Object Game This year!
PostedOctober 25, 2013
pennmom36
fromThe butterflies still disappear! Poof
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Nevertales: The Beauty Within Collector's Edition
(293)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
This is one of the most entertaining games to date. A giant and of course evil raven has attacked a family camper, you stop to investigate and a young girl explains that monsters took her mom and dad! The raven returns, tearing the camper to shreds as he grabs Becky and knocks you out cold! You wake to find all the evidence has disappeared and nobody in the nearby park saw a thing, how could this be? Are you crazy? As you snoop around the park you are pushed down into a dungeon and left for dead. It is there that you befriend a prisoner and he agrees to help you with your investigation in exchange for finding several pieces to his cell lock. As you find pieces of the lock, the prisoner will tell a continuing story about the person who imprisoned them both. Can you trust this man? Do you have any choice? Although I preferred the Collector's Edition because there are 60 butterflies and 26 pieces of evidence to collect as well as a ton of achievements and my favorite morphing objects and a good bonus game about how the gift shop "watcher" became a victim. The story alone will have you playing non-stop to find out more. The HOS are interactive list finds and you can switch to an association match find if you prefer. The mini games are good and you probably won't have to use the skip button because they are doable. There are a lot of things to do in each scene and several areas of the park to visit so the length of the game is good and I personally never got bored playing, on the contrary I wanted to keep playing to find out more of the prisoners story, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Contraption Max
Reclaim the robot factory and restore freedom to the land by defeating the evil genius, Dr. Badweld. Contraption Max is a fantastic puzzle game for all ages.
Overall rating
4
/
5
20 of 23 found this review helpful
Rebuild The Robot Factory!
PostedOctober 24, 2013
pennmom36
fromWhat! Robots grow old too?
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Nevertales: The Beauty Within Collector's Edition
(293)Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
A different kind of strategy game with a cute story to boot! Somebody had a good sense of humor developing this game. Max and Maxine are Mr. Goodsparks favorite robots in the robot factory but the evil Dr. Badweld has other plans! As Dr. Badweld is wreaking havoc on the factory, Max falls down several floors. When the lights are turned on Max realizes that he's in the old factory and with the help of an old, long forgotten robot Max will rebuild an army of robots out of a heap pile of parts. This army must defeat the robots that Dr. Badweld re-programmed to become his evil minions. Will Max save his mentor and reunite with his beautiful Maxine? It's all up to you now. enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Nevertales: The Beauty Within Collector's Edition
You were just about to relax with a good book when a stranger leaves a baby on your doorstep.
Overall rating
5
/
5
115 of 134 found this review helpful
I Nominate This Game For Best Story and Most Original Gameplay!
PostedOctober 24, 2013
pennmom36
fromAnybody know who this baby belongs to?
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Nevertales: The Beauty Within Collector's Edition
(293)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
There's a knock at your door and a beautiful baby has been left on your stoop with a note not to call the police that you are this child's salvation! You chase after this man (with the baby safely seatbelted) and enter a portal that takes you to a mansion. A man appears briefly to explain that you must take care of the baby and little contact can be made but he will help you when he can. You repair an owl robot named Gears who will help you out by reaching the high places and there are 45 hidden roses to find. Three levels of difficulty and one custom settings to pick and choose the things you want or don't. Now for the original, and unique things. I hardly know where to start, the game itself has unique features, some books you pick up will require you to find torn pieces throughout the room, and you may enter a room and find that you need to find several stars that are needed for a toybox. There is even a talking door, with two faces who will want you to solve a few arguments, they will ask a question and you have to search whatever room the question refers to and come back and click on whichever head was right before they let you in. My favorite parts were the HOS what a treat, new, original, fun and extremely entertaining. On one HOS you had to find items that were shapes of several items on a stained glass window but they weren't necessarily the exact replica as shown, they might show a leaping frog shadow but the frog is simply sitting there and all items were very well hidden. One of my favorite HOS showed several keyholes in the inventory list that you had to find the key for. Once you opened the lock with the key a small list would appear. Some of the items needed to be interacted with to find what you were looking for and when all of the items were found in each lock spot another door would open with a fragment to be assembled for the end item. I don't know how they did it but they made my favorite genre of game even more entertaining AND it has a story that you are going to want to purchase this game to find out just what's up with that baby! Enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Call of the Ages
Embark on an exciting journey through time to save the world from destruction in this unique Match 3 game.
Overall rating
4
/
5
91 of 95 found this review helpful
8 Countries 8 Time Periods 8 Artifacts
PostedOctober 23, 2013
pennmom36
from7 More countries to go!
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(101)Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
This is a match 3 game with 90 levels that travel through 8 countries each of a different time period. The goal is to restore the ancient calender of ages by traveling the world. This is a good match 3 game BUT, there were a few aspects of the game I didn't like. One of the biggest things that annoyed me was that once you made a large match you couldn't match any tiles until all the new tiles were done falling which in my opinion made the game play too slow. There are 40 achievements to earn but because this game is easy to play, it should not be hard to earn all of them. The goal on each level is the same, to drop pieces of the artifact off the board by making a match 3 under them. You power up an amulet by making large matches and you want to use that as soon as it's charged to destroy random tiles, it resets after each level. You also earn bonuses such as bombs etc. but they are available for use on any level if you don't use them. One thing I really liked about this game was the unique tiles they used for each country you are in at the time. There is an un-timed setting for a relaxing match 3 and I think that once you get into the higher levels it will become more challenging, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Grim Tales: Bloody Mary
Save your niece from the evil presence haunting her school!
Overall rating
5
/
5
96 of 112 found this review helpful
NEVER!!! Talk To Your Reflection!
PostedOctober 22, 2013
pennmom36
fromEverybody knows mansions are haunted!
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(101)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
The phone rings in the middle of the night, "Auntie please save me, their all evil!" You arrive at the boarding school of horror, dolls with no heads, sewn up teddy bears and disturbing graffiti have turned this once beautiful mansion into a little shop of horrors. Inside the horror continues, and something attempts to kill you by dropping the chandelier and hurling sharp objects! I love the twisted and demented vibe of the possessed children, nothing creepier! The graphics are amazingly crisp and very detailed, and this isn't an easy game, you need to stop and think at times but there is an excellent hint system and an interactive map. There aren't a lot of HOS but they are very well done, they stick to the creepy atmosphere of a demented boarding school, and several objects within the scene will react when you pass over them with your cursor. The mini scenes are mostly plays where you read a line of the tale of Bloody Mary then interact with items on the stage to match each line being read. Each and every scene have several available areas of action and if you pay attention, stick figure characters come to life and show you what needs to be done, again, creepy. I really can't find a single complaint with either version other than some players may not like this genre, but it's my favorite kind, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Spooky Bonus
Uncover dark forces emanating from the heart of Old Town and be spellbound by this adorably ghoulish horror-themed puzzle game!
Overall rating
5
/
5
220 of 240 found this review helpful
There Goes The Neighborhood!
PostedOctober 21, 2013
pennmom36
fromMaking an eye of newt potion!
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(101)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
This is the most fun I have ever had playing a match 3 game, and I have played them all! There is so much to do and the Halloween theme is the icing on the cake! The music is lighthearted with the occasional familiar sound of a doorbell. You match at least 3 of eyeballs, cauldrons, spellbooks, voodoo dolls, ghosts, black cats and even candles that crack when you match them. You need to clear cobwebs by making a match of whatever is under the cobwebs and there are stone tiles that break when you match beside them as well. After each level you will be offered items from Agnes's shop to decorate your haunted mansion, some of the items are free but all of the items come with bonus tiles within the game. There is a wooden stake for taking out a single tile, a celtic cross to take out several, a hammer etc that you can select from the inventory list and you can buy upgrades as well. There are bonus tiles available for large matches that are available on the board, a pumpkin that shoots firecrackers randomly, a bullet that takes out an entire vertical line, a flashlight that takes out the entire horizontal line, a silver cross which is a cross pattern, torches for an x pattern and that's just to name a few! There will also be random coins and bags of coins that show up and you need to click on them quickly because they will morph into a normal tile after a few seconds, There are several goals to meet on each level such as destroying a certain number of one item or turning all gold tiles blue by making matches over them, and even making matches below golden skeletons so they fall off the board. As you earn gold you upgrade the mansion and you can save the picture of your mansion as wallpaper! See I told you there was lot's to do, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Web of Deceit: Deadly Sands
While visiting your uncle, you stumble upon a curious case. Men are vanishing, reappearing dead days later. Who killed them?
Overall rating
4
/
5
49 of 61 found this review helpful
Morgan Is A Black Widow-Maker!
PostedOctober 21, 2013
pennmom36
fromShe's sitting in the middle of the web it's a man she seeks!
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(101)Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Morgana is back and leaving a trail of victims, your Uncle could be one of them! This is a game full of mechanical gadgets and clever locks to tinker with. Every scene has several active areas and the map is very helpful. The graphics are very crisp and professionally done, however the HOS are just scenes with a whole bunch of junk scattered about, but they are interactive.Mini games are mostly mechanically themed such as putting fuses with various numbers into a chess board and every row needs to equal 34. This is an entertaining game but at times it does become mundane but for the most part it is fun, enjoy!
I recommend this game!
Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Beanstalk Collector's Edition
Defeat the giant to save the world from destruction!
Overall rating
4
/
5
40 of 45 found this review helpful
Yes It's A Different Kind of HO Game But....
PostedOctober 19, 2013
pennmom36
fromGiant Land. Beanstalk County
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(101)Fun Factor
4
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
4
/
5
Level of Challenge
4
/
5
Storyline
4
/
5
Yes it's a lame fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk, with a bit of a spin. You are sent to destroy the magic beans but one grows huge because you put fertilizer on it and water it for whatever reason, The fact of the matter is that because this game has some out of the box ideas the gameplay is out of the norm, and basically we fear change. Each scene has one of 40 collectible hidden decorated eggs and when you find an area of interest you will receive several faded out pictures of items you need to look for. Then you search that entire scene for the items that are randomly hidden and you may need to move to the next scene to complete the search. When all the items are found you use that item to complete a mini game or puzzle. Don't fret there are still some good old fashioned list hidden object scenes as well. A lot of the mini games were actually riddles, one puzzle gave you a clever riddle and you had to select the correct picture that matched the item the riddle was referring to. I think that if the story was a little more interesting this type of gameplay would have held more interest to some of the hardcore HOPA gamers, but to me it was a good change of pace and I give credit to the developers for trying to mix things up a bit, enjoy
I recommend this game!
Surface: The Pantheon
It should have been a tremendous achievement, but the tunnel through the Ridge of Leviathan became the site of a great disaster. What really happened that day?
Overall rating
5
/
5
59 of 68 found this review helpful
ALIENS! All Aboard!
PostedOctober 18, 2013
pennmom36
fromAliens have taken my family!
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Time Management, Puzzle
Current Favorite:
Phantasmat Collector's Edition
(101)Fun Factor
5
/
5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
/
5
Level of Challenge
5
/
5
Storyline
5
/
5
Unfortunately the train has departed without you on it's maiden voyage. You watch helplessly as your husband and daughter disappear into the tunnel, never to be seen again! One year later a scientist convinces you to board an exact train replica in the very tunnel of the strange phenomenon. His intentions aren't clear but you are desperate, what do you have to lose? You soon find out that aliens are involved in capturing humans but your family was taken to the dreaded Pantheon in the sky and haven't been seen since. Are they still alive? What do the aliens want with them? Personally I liked the extras available in the Collectors Edition and purchased that version because of collectible flowers which allows you to play extra games in the Pantheon. The story however is remarkable and keeps you guessing throughout the game, just when you think you have it figured out the story twists a bit. The graphics are stunningly beautiful with crisp detail and vibrant colors. The HOS are a bit unusual, you will need to use items in your inventory in the HOS and they have done a great job of hiding objects in plain sight. The mini games are fun and not too difficult and most of the tasks you come across are easy to figure out what to do or what inventory item to use. There is a lot of back and forth as you find an item and realize you need to use that item two scenes back and so forth so you will probably want to use the map to save your mouse, enjoy!
I recommend this game!