Huru Beach Party: Huru Humi mania hits the beach!

Huru Beach Party (41 MB download)

Huru Humi mania hits the beaches of America in a splash of time management fun! Help Lindsey earn enough money to enter her volleyball team in a school tournament by catering to her friends as they visit the coast. Show them to the best tanning spots, serve them drinks, and more in 50 sun-kissed levels!

Enchanted Katya: Become a master of potion preparation!

Enchanted Katya (83 MB download)

Learn how to manage a shop of magic potions and solve the mysterious vanish of Wizard Took, the shop's owner. Gather the right ingredients, mix up magical elixirs and deliver them to bewitching customers in this time management challenge. Use your special sight to find hidden objects and clues along the way and solve your boss' disappearance. Serve out a dose of magic now!

Cooking Dash: Help Flo cook and deliver food from four DinerTown restaurants while Cookie the Chef courts culinary celebrity!

Cooking Dash (23 MB download)

And she cooks, too! When Cookie the Chef leaves Flo's Diner to pursue a career on a popular cooking reality TV show, he creates a shortage of chefs in DinerTown by inviting them all to appear as guest stars. It's up to Flo to pick up the slack with a whole new set of food service skills! Help Flo and Grandma Florence keep five DinerTown restaurants up and running...if you can stand the heat!

Drugstore Mania: Run a pharmacy and provide the highest quality prescriptions in town!

Drugstore Mania (44 MB download)

Do your best to bring people back to health by selling potions, preparing herbal concoctions, and blending ingredients for complex prescriptions. Use your time management skills to manufacture high quality medicine on demand and deftly serve ailing customers. Hire extra hands to help you out as you move into larger towns and big time business!

Manage the family farm stand in Orchard!

Orchard (23 MB download)

Your granduncle Fred has had enough of running the family orchard and is giving it to you! Run all aspects of the family business, from harvesting, to baking, to selling. Test your strategy know-how in this game by hiring workers and increasing their skills, producing 20 yummy recipes, and earning trophies! It's time to head down to the country and roll up your sleeves for some fruity fun!

Virtual Families: Care for your own virtual family in real time!

Virtual Families (58 MB download)

From the developer of the smash-hit Virtual Villagers series comes the new casual game that captures the drama of life: Virtual Families! Care for your own virtual family in real time! Adopt and nurture your first member, help them meet a mate and start a family in this casual simulation game. Pass on the house as your family members grow up for generations of fun!

Clueless: Help Cher make sure that her friends are the most fashion forward in Beverly Hills!

Clueless (187 MB download)

Cher and her friends are on an unending quest to find the perfect clothes for every occasion. Whether it is prom or just a day at school, they always have to look perfect to avoid "fashion victim" status. Cher's clique dress not only to impress other girls, but also boys. Help Cher and her friends achieve the title of "fashion goddess" while attracting the perfect match!

Party Down: Serve and cater to Hollywood's elite!

Party Down (31 MB download)

Inspired by the Starz TV series, take over a Party Down catering team as you help the Hollywood elite celebrate in style! Keep the music playing, the food coming, and the conversations going as you schmooze with the stars. Work your way through 8 unique parties at huge yachts, extravagant balls, and exclusive nightclubs. Keep your cool, show them what you got, and maybe you can become the next big thing!

Cooking Academy 2: A whole world of food for you to prepare!

Cooking Academy 2 (85 MB download)

Welcome to the World Culinary Workshop in the sequel to the hit time management game! From Chinese BBQ Pork Buns, to Mexican Tamales, make your way through 60 different recipes from eight different countries! Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering all new gesture-based skills and play fun mini-games including food processors, mixers, raiding the fridge and much more! Unlock new recipes and trophies as you complete recipes and exams in each restaurant. Are you ready to cook foods from around the world? Then get ready for an international culinary adventure!

Governor of Poker, get a hold of Texas!

Governor of Poker (33 MB download)

Battle your way in poker tournaments or cash games and win all the cash or property! Buy houses and means of transport to get you everywhere in Texas. Go head to head with old western pros, who each play a different style. Governor of Poker, get a hold of Texas!

Fishdom H2O: Dive to the bottom of the sea to start building your dream aquarium!

Fishdom H2O (110 MB download)

Help Jennifer, a young marine biologist, win the Best Aquarium Award in this hunt and seek challenge. Dive to the bottom of the sea to start building your dream aquarium! Earn cash to buy cute sea creatures and gorgeous ornaments. Choose from tons of accessories and supplies to make the life of your exotic pets fun and comfortable. Let your Fishination run wild in this dazzling hidden object spin-off of the original Fishdom!

Ice Cream Craze - Tycoon Takeover: Stack and serve your way to success!

Ice Cream Craze - Tycoon Takeover (46 MB download)

Take on the Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover time management challenge! Go against the odds and beat the top ice cream maker, BigCo, with Anna! Armed only with an old ice cream truck and the wisdom of her grandma, Anna will try to defy the odds. Guide her through challenges from fickle business owners around town, earning respect, cash, special truck upgrades, and even ice cream stands that make money on their own. Stack and serve your way to success!

GourMania: Slice and dice your way to the top!

GourMania (68 MB download)

Do you have the skills to win a cook off among the top chefs at a glamorous resort? Begin your journey at a fast food joint, finding the ingredients for the sandwiches your customers want and the processing their orders before time runs out. Before the big showdown, you'll save a Sushi Bar, a Pizza Parlor and more from shutting down, making you the most sought after chef in town! Just make sure to purchase the upgrades that will give you an edge. Full of slice-and-dice fun, GourMania is your ticket to the big leagues!

Wedding Dash 2: Here come the brides - again!

Wedding Dash 2 (19 MB download)

Quinn is back on a new whirlwind adventure, joined by Flo and Joe Wright, wedding photographer. Help Quinn become the world's top wedding planner in this hilarious sequel to the hit game Wedding Dash. Visit beautiful, exotic locations while managing new guests, fulfilling bride and groom requests, and tackling comedic disasters. Do you have what it takes to help Quinn win the honor of planning the most exclusive wedding of the year?

Beach Party Craze: Hit the beach in a contest to earn the most money!

Beach Party Craze (43 MB download)

Its been said by some game designers that the first 15 minutes of a game is critical to win over the player. But this wasn’t the case in Beach Party Craze, Alawar Entertainment’s latest business sim, as it starts off underwhelming but gains momentum as you progress through the 50 levels.

Patient gamers willing to give this game a chance will find it a deep and rewarding – but not perfect – piece of interactive entertainment.

As with many other time management games, Beach Party Craze begins with a comic book-like narrative about a friend who needs you to run her beachfront business while she whisks off to see her family. You’ll also learn of a spiteful ex and vow to take him on in a business competition to become part of a huge resort.

You play as Maria, and begin each level on the beach, awaiting new customers who saunter up for a little sun and relaxation. Your first task is to ensure they have a spot to lie down by clicking on each new customer, which assigns them a spot near the water. Within a few seconds the customer will sprout a thought bubble indicating what they want.

If it’s a drink, you’ll see a glass over their head and you must click it in a timely manner or else they grow impatient. Doing so opens the first of a bunch of mini-games -- this one shows a glass with water flowing up and down. You must click where the water level should stop, and the closer to the rim of the glass the more cash you’ll get.

You’ll notice a small water station near the top of the beach an you’ll have to keep an eye on as it’ll run dry, and you must click to replenish it.

Other requests the customers want will likely require you to first construct a building – if you have enough money, of course. For example, customers will ask for food, rental water equipment (such as floats), rides (including banana boats) and souvenirs.

Not all buildings spawn a mini-game, but examples include building a burger by clicking on the ingredients the customer requests (such as meat, lettuce, cheese, bacon and, er, french fries) and the souvenir shop that asks players to pick up the unique gift from a table of five (two pairs of the same item, such as a seahorse and seashell, and one unique item, such as a ship’s wheel).

Throughout each of these levels – divided into “days” – you’ll have a number of tasks to complete, all listed in the top right corner of the screen. This might be to sell 10 tickets to a banana boat ride, make 3 hamburgers, serve 12 drinks of water and increase your popularity by taking good care of customers (including giving them umbrellas when they sit down and cleaning up their mess when they leave their spot). Bonus points are awarded for doing two of the same tasks in a row.

Your water station isn’t the only building that needs refilling – you’ll eventually run out of food and souvenirs and such, and must send someone to the mainland quickly and return so you can restock each building quickly.

At the end of each day you’ll earn you money for 50 different kinds of upgrades, which might be to hire additional help (such as a waiter or worker), a faster rider to replenish out-of-stock items or more buildings to open. You can also choose to spend money on advertising when business is slow in one area (such as food).

Beach Party Craze offers a lot of gameplay – and no, we won’t give away story twists and the locations you’ll progress through – but there are some issues that marred the overall experience. For one, you can’t speed up the gameplay, which means you’ll be sitting around waiting for your customers to ask for specific things to complete your mandatory tasks. Yes, you can advertize to try and kick start a store, but you have no control over what your customers want.

Speaking of customers, there doesn’t appear to be any personality differences between the ten or so men and women; the animation is cute, such as musclemen who do sit-ups on the spot, but it would be another strategic layer if each type of customers were different enough for you to alter your game-play decisions. Third, some of the wording is a bit awkward, such as sending someone to “secure provisions.” Huh? Ok, I realized it meant to get supplies for the various stores but some gamers might find this oddly worded.

Overall, though, the game is quite fun and increasingly challenging. At the very least fans of these time management games should download and try Beach Party Craze and give it the full 60 minutes before deciding if you’d like to go into business or not.

by Marc Saltzman

Farm Mania: Help Anna's grandfather in the family business - farming!

Farm Mania (26 MB download)

Leave the noisy city and spend some time in the country! Anna's bent on helping out her grandpa on the family farm for the summer. Plant vegetables, feed and water animals, and watch everything grow! There's lots to do on the land, including protecting everything from from crows, hares and wolves, upgrading equipment, and selling your products for a profit. With fun mini-games, animals that grow up, and tons of tasks to master, you'll never get bored of the farm life!

Turn the fast food business in the big city into your own success story!

Success Story (20 MB download)

Slap together burgers for hungry customers, serve french fries and desserts, and keep the line moving! Work fast while the ingredients are still fresh. Choose the ones that will earn you more profit, and complete combos to earn even more! Beat the bosses in the mini-games and turn the fast food business in the big city into your very own success story in this addictive and tasty time management game!

Cake Mania 3: Help Jill work her cake-making magic to get back in time for her wedding!

Cake Mania 3 (92 MB download)

In this third part of the Cake Mania series, Jill confronts her greatest challenge yet - planning her dream wedding! Disaster strikes when a mysterious time bender crashes to the ground and shatters into pieces. As Jill's family and friends rush to pick up the scattered shards, they are suddenly sent hurtling through time. Now, to ensure her wedding goes off without a hitch, Jill herself must travel to through time - from Ancient Egypt to an unknown future - and work her cake-making magic in order to get herself and her guests back before the ceremony begins!

Get behind the wheel and shift into high gear with the all-new Parking Dash!

Parking Dash (22 MB download)

Introducing Karma, Flo's hip, new friend, whose life takes a dramatic turn when she's contacted in her Donutville apartment about inherited property in DinerTown! Flo intercedes before Karma can sell the tiny blacktop lot behind Flo's Diner to Mr. Big, and encourages Karma to start her own business. You'll have to be quick to click as you rack, track, and even stack automotive gems from every corner of DinerTown. Help Karma clean up the streets in this thoroughly entertaining mix of the familiar and the unique. Hop in now!

DinerTown Tycoon game

DinerTown Tycoon (107 MB download)

Introducing a whole new way to have fun with Flo and all your favorite DinerTown friends! Oust the evil fast-food chain Grub Burger using your restaurant savvy and business smarts to stock your restaurant, set menu prices, and purchase new décor in this all-new economic strategy game. From Squid Row to Champagne Falls, help DinerTown bring back wholesome food and local eateries, then finally give Grub Burger the boot once and for all!

Chocolatier - Decadence by Design: Create your own chocolates, travel, and amass a fortune in the post-World War II boom!

Chocolatier - Decadence by Design (28 MB download)

Travel the globe in search of flavorful and exotic ingredients you can use to customize your very own chocolate creations. Earn spaces in the official recipe book for inventions you create in your Secret Test Kitchen. You'll maximize profits by designing and marketing your own recipes and launching an entirely new line of products - Gourmet Coffees and Coffee Blends! Strive to become CEO of your personal chocolate empire while you help Alex, whose husband, Sean, has not been seen since the end of the war. While Alex embarks on a world-wide search for clues to Sean's whereabouts, you'll have Post-World War II technology at your fingertips, along with the opportunity to discover that the best chocolates in the world are the ones you create!

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe game

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (89 MB download)

Inspired by Daniel Defoe's classic masterpiece, Robinson Crusoe is a story of a man who survives a terrible shipwreck and finds himself cast away on an island in the Caribbeans. In this incredible hidden object adventure that spans over 28 years, help Robinson explore the island, fight with cannibals, visit a lost village and construct a boat to sail back home!

Nanny Mania 2: Nanny Mania is back with a brand new adventure. Can you bring our celebrity star back from the brink of destruction?

Nanny Mania 2 (81 MB download)

Nanny Mania is back with a brand new adventure! The sequel to the number one hit puts you in the middle of a celebrity family in need of a super nanny! In Hollywood, being a stay-at-home mom is a lot of work. Can you bring our celebrity star back from the brink of destruction? User your time management skills to take care of the house, the kids, and the egos, all while keeping the paparazzi at bay!

Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch: Join the fearless Samantha Swift on her journey to unravel the mysteries of King Midas' Golden Touch!

Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch (158 MB download)

Samantha's back in an all-new hidden object adventure! On a quest to recover Alexander the Great's Scroll of Wealth, archaeologist and adventurer Samantha Swift realizes that there's more to this mission than she first thought. Now she's racing against the clock to keep ancient powers from falling into the wrong hands! Discover the truth behind King Midas' Golden Touch in this exciting adventure game that's sure to keep you hunting for more!

Farm Craft: It's time to get your hands dirty in this addictive farm management game!

Farm Craft (29 MB download)

Farm Craft is a classic tale of good vs. evil where our hero, Ginger, must help various rural farmers take on the AgroCorportion, a big agricultural conglomerate that wants to develop the land outside of town. It's up to Ginger to save her farm and the village from AgroCorp! (Heck, the whole county is depending on her!) Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty in this addictive time-management game that will bring out the farmer in you!

Emerald City Confidential: Wander off the Yellow Brick Road...

Emerald City Confidential (80 MB download)

Work with the world's most cunning detective in the shadowy underbelly of the Emerald City of Oz! As Petra, you'll be lured deep into mysteries involving new foes and familiar faces; Scarecrow, Lion, Dorothy and Toto included. This is Oz as you've never seen it before! Solve your detective's quest and unravel a conspiracy of magic and intrigue! Follow a case through five chapters full of puzzles, witnesses, suspects, and allies.

Fashion Dash: Dinertown takes Fashion forward!

Fashion Dash (15 MB download)

Step into the fashionable shoes of Coco, a young woman with dreams of creating a new fashion empire one custom fit at a time. Set in a series of exclusive retail shops, Fashion Dash will challenge you with a steady stream of customers willing to pay big bucks for perfectly tailored attire! Flo joins in on the fun to encourage you along the way. Come try on a game that really fits!