Mac Games – reviews and game downloads

June negotiates with a fashion designer to sell his goods in her new dress shop. She has daily goals to meet to complete the level in this fast paced Mac game. Her earnings will buy new upgrades and new clothes for her shop to flourish and make her customers happy.

The play is to greet the customer and click on the catalog to give to the person. They will make their decision, you click on that item and click on the person. Afterwards you click on the register station to receive the payment, but that’s not all you need to do. After the customer leaves, you may need to clean their area for the next person.

As the levels go higher, the play speed increases so the upgrades really comes in handy to appropriately take care of the customers. If you are not fast enough, they will leave. This simple sim game is similar to Fashion Dash, but without the familiar characters. The artwork is good and the play fun. If you like sim and fashion, you’ll enjoy Dress Up Rush bringing fashion to this town.

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Skip-Bo-Castaway Caper is a card Mac game similar to spit or speed with cards looking a lot like Uno cards since they are both made by Mattel. The story is that you are stranded on an island and you have disturbed the great volcano. In order to appease the gods, you must play 10 tribal challenges where in each challenge you play 4 matches of this ancient game, Skip-Bo.

You begin the play by making your avatar. You can pick out your do, eyes, nose, mouth, skin color and clothing. You are playing against an islander who will try to take you down. You both will have a stockpile of 30 cards each and an additional 5 cards for your hand. At the center of the game board will be cards faced down and 4 spaces to discard your cards beginning with 1 or a skip-bo (wild). You continue to build the piles in ascending order to 12. The goal is to eliminate your stockpile cards before your opponent. You continue until you no longer can play a card. At this time you will discard one of your cards in one of four spaces above your hand. Your opponent will then take his turn. At the start of each turn you will be dealt more cards to replenish your hand.

That’s the basic play of Skip-Bo in the Adventure mode. The other 3 modes (Classic, Speed and Team) are locked until you complete your 4 matches. In classic mode you play against 3 opponents, Speed is a 10 card round for a fast game, and in Team you are paired with a computer teammate against 2 other computer opponents.

Skip-Bo was a good game but didn’t have the excitement factor as when you play against your friends. I’ve never played the Skip-Bo card game but have played Uno many times with friends where sometimes there will be loud laughter and slapping cards down in a challenge. This type of fun is missing when you play against a computer so the feel of this card game is different. However, with that said, Skip-Bo is a relaxing game when you cannot find your buddies. Those new to the card game will find its tutorial clear and easy to follow, but be sure to take the hints off as soon as you learn the play or it will get annoying covering your hand while you are trying to make a play.

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Burger Shop is an interesting game that makes you the entrepreneur of a new fast food innovation.  You discover some blueprints and out of sheer curiousity, decide to build the machine.  What you create is some sort of Burger-Tron that cooks hamburgers and cheeseburgers to feed the customers.  Now that you have your super burger machine, you are ready to start making some money.

To make a hamburger you click on each component (bun top, meat, and bun bottom) as they come out on the conveyer belt.  The next step is to incorporate the other items on the menu.  Fries and drinks come from separate machines, but the cups come out on the belt.  When the order is completed, the customer will leave a tip and generally be happy as long as the order did not take too long.

Personally, this game was not all that great.  It was a good idea, but quickly became monotonous with all the clicking.  It felt like I was working at a fast food restaurant instead of enjoying a game on my computer. Once you start adding more menu items, it becomes hard to distinguish between some items and becomes rather confusing.  I would not play this game again, but it could be because I actually did work flipping burgers for a couple summers, and the experience was all too similar.

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