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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 15.0 hrs on record (10.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 2 Oct, 2019 @ 8:39pm
Updated: 25 Oct, 2019 @ 9:50am
Product received for free

The protagonist of this game Is a fairy with a thing for home renovations and interior decorating. Some wizard dude comes by one day dribbling something about a dragon. You immediately set off to see if anyone needs help.... right after you finish building a fireplace to make some tea.

Upon arriving at a local village we find the dragon has set fire to the whole town. This is great because while that wizard dude does some dorky stuff, like clues hunting or whatever, our fairy can buff up her resume by rebuilding the town. Later she will even get into sculpting statues and building monuments, because reasons.

We will need mana to accomplish all this construction and we gain it by playing Solitaire. I mean its not like you need a spoiler alert for that, its written in the title. There is also some pics up the top of the store page for people who TL;DR anything not written with abbreviations and acronyms.

So we need to clear stacks of cards to collect some mana or coins hidden underneath. We can use the coins to purchase magic abilities, upgrades or cheat cards. To achieve this we need to overcome many types of obstacles. The mechanics of these are all well explained by the in-game tutorial that pops up whenever we see something new. The only issue i would say, is the explanations for the special abilities you buy and what benefit there is to upgrading them. For example the fourth magical ability only ever says that it changes a card to an adjacent one, yet if you upgrade it, you get a joker instead.

As for game difficulty there are 3 options. Normal, Easy and Lightning. The difference are that easy has a double size deck, and lightning has a time limit included. Each difficulty has its own save slot so you cant change it mid game for specific levels. Normal is a pretty comfortable challenge as long as you remember to spend your coins and occasionally use those cheat cards.

Playing on normal difficulty i would estimate about 14hrs to finish all 200 levels.

Functionally I have seen no issues with the game, everything runs smoothly and all achievements seem to work. The game has a number of decent music tracks so less chance of getting some crappy tune stuck in your head for the next month after listening to it non-stop for hours on end.
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