Gnomes Garden: Return Of The Queen Reviews

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great time management game. love this whole series of Gnome Garden.

Gnomes Garden: Return Of The Queen is a tablet clicker/ripoff of the "12 Labors Of Hercules" clickers. Click on various resources/obstacles on each map until the level is done. Much like the Hercules games this is aping, There's no real gameplay or meaningful decision making, even though, much like the Hercules games, it's pretending to be a resource management game, it's not. The graphics aren't as good as 12 Labors either, so there's a second fail The shady developer behind this valueless shovelware has proven to be a persistent nuisance abusing Steam Direct... they've dumped over a hundred valueless mobile app tier asset flips onto Steam, many featuring plagiarised/stolen stock art and other unethical, shady behaviours. The developer, Creobit/8Floor, has copy + pasted this particular game, with minor reskins, an insane THIRTY TWO TIMES onto Steam... why cash in on one asset if you can cash in on multiple copies of the same game? Asset flipping begins at home! Here's a list of 8Floors's copy + pastes of this asset: [list] [*] Argonauts Agency: Captive of Circe [*] Argonauts Agency: Chair of Hephaestus [*] Argonauts Agency: Glove of Midas [*] Argonauts Agency: Golden Fleece [*] Argonauts Agency: Missing Daughter [*] Argonauts Agency: Pandora's Box [*] Elven Rivers 2: New Horizons Collector's Edition [*] Elven Rivers: The Forgotten Lands Collector's Edition [*] Emergency Crew 2 Global Warming [*] Emergency Crew Perfect Getaway Collector's Edition [*] Emergency Crew Volcano Eruption [*] Garden City [*] Gnomes Garden [*] Gnomes Garden 2 [*] Gnomes Garden 3: The thief of castles [*] Gnomes Garden Lifeseeds Collector's Edition [*] Gnomes Garden Lost King [*] Gnomes Garden New Home [*] Gnomes Garden: Christmas Story [*] Gnomes Garden: Halloween [*] Gnomes Garden: Return Of The Queen [*] Lost Artifacts [*] Lost Artifacts Mysterious Book Collector's Edition [*] Lost Artifacts: Golden Island [*] Lost Artifacts: Soulstone [*] Lost Artifacts: Time Machine [*] New Lands [*] New Lands 2 Collector's Edition [*] New Lands Paradise Island Collector's Edition [*] Royal Roads [*] Royal Roads 2 The Magic Box [*] Royal Roads 3 Portal [/list] [i]These are all reskins of exactly the same game![/i] What value is there in this spam/pollution glutting the Steam store for gamers? This valueless copy + paste garbage is taking up marketing space for genuine indie developers who are doing the right thing. It's harmful to the industry and to gamers. The ridiculous price of the game ($5 USD) exceeds that of 12 Labors of Hercules, worse gameplay, worse graphics. I didn't recommend 12 Labors because that's a lousy tablet game on PC, and this is worse... so no recommendation from me. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 9 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? Gnomes Garden: Return Of The Queen has the greedy, cash grab price of around $9 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $9 asking price for this game could get you games like "Mass Effect Trilogy Pack", "Monster Hunter World" or "Dishonored 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Having a lot of fun with this. 8Floor has put in some new mechanics and the levels are much longer. I routinely upgrade most of the buildings. I did run into one slight issue though - if you're going for all of the achievements, be sure to go into settings and put the difficulty on hard. One of the achievements is for completing all levels with three stars on hard. If you finish the game on normal, then change it to hard, all of your levels still show complete. I'm having to keep track of which levels I've replayed as hard while I try to get that final achievement. Edit: I installed the game on a 2nd computer, set the difficulty to hard, and got 3 stars on every level. Unfortunately it didn't trigger the last achievement. If anyone knows how to get that last achievement, please let me know.

SKIP this game if you'd like to collect all trophies since there is a bug that prevents you from getting all of them. Game is interesting enough and is not difficult at all, even in the most difficult mode. However, the screen is a bit too busy/crowded -- I did spend a lot of time on searching the needed objects, such as bee hives, lamps , etc. To me, the most annoying part is that I didn't get the complete all levels with 3 stars in most difficult mode trophy even I did do so. Due to that missing trophy, I also did not get the trophy for receiving all trophies. As another player who mentioned the same problem, I also have two profiles (one for classic mode and one for hard mode) -- I don't know if this causes the missing trophy problem, but I plan to erase both profiles and replay the game with just the hard mode to see if I can get all trophies. I'd like to give this game a neutral rating, but Steam does not offer this option. UPDATE: Deleted all profiles, started a new one and set it to Hard mode, complete all 59 levels with 3 stars .... and still did not get achievement for "Best of the Best -- complete all levels with 3 stars at high difficulty level", thus also not getting the "Trophy Hunter - earn every achievement". Just too annoying, decided to change from recommend to Not recommend.

Took another chance on yet another Gnomes Garden game for fifty cents and I'm liking it a lot so far. Will be updating this review as I progress as usual. This one is kind of like Lost King so far but different at the same time. EDIT: As I have finally got back to playing this game again, it's come to my attention that the difficulty has bumped up big time. You have to play each level quite a few times in order to know exactly how to complete it. I do like this about the game but the learning curve is quite steep. EDIT(again): Well after completing 25 levels or so, it must be known that the difficulty has once again been bumped up, but this time, it's INSANE! You HAVE to use the guides for each level now because when you don't, GOOD, LUCK!