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Tower of Hero - Another “tap to make numbers go up” game, but this one with the twist that your tapping summons disposable heroes to climb a tower full of regenerating monsters. There’s a rhythm to how you level up your characters that other games lack, in that you need to strengthen your heroes and your strongest soldiers to advance higher in the tower, but you need to level up your weaker soldiers so that they can clean the lowest unlocked floors and keep the money steadily flowing.
Cookie Jam - Another pastry-based Bejeweled clone, which falls flat for me after playing Pastry Paradise. (For one thing, you take diagonal moves for granted until you can’t make them anymore.) The interface is slow and clunky and feels like a step backwards, but the puzzles are often clever and totally playable—even in the later areas, a little persistence means you can get through without paying for power-ups. (The real key is matching the special tiles on the board—matching a rainbow cake to a stripe cookie with turn all the cookies of that color into stripes and set them all off, which can clean most of the board.)
Juice Jam - Yet another Bejeweled clone, though this one has two big things going for it: One is that you can match squares in addition to lines; and the other is the cute dance the mascots do when you win a stage. Like Cookie Jam (which I think was published by the same folks), matching power-ups can be a critical trick to beating stages. This game introduces conveyor belts very early on, which is nice, and there’s a good variety of stage types (uncover tiles, match orders, beat the boss).
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