Oh sweet bliss. I am like a little dumpling all warm and cozy and stuffed to my heart’s content. Man, it’s good to be home and eating mom’s cooking again. There is a chance I may have overdone it already but I don’t care. I’m like a bear going into hibernation. I need to pack all the goodness into me so I can make it through the upcoming finals.
I’m lying in my room upstairs, and I can already smell the heavenly scents of food being made in the kitchen. Ummmmmmmm so tasty. It’s cold here in Jersey. And the farmhouse doesn’t really have the best insulation and heating. But I’m wrapped in my blanket on my bed in my flannel pjs so I’m pretty comfortable. Now would be a perfect time to play a new game.
Hmmmm what to play? Well there are a lot of new food based games, but strangely I don’t have the urge now to play those this week. Huh… that’s funny. I am on the farm… Gardenscapes, well that sounds interesting. I’ll give that a whirl.
OK so I inherit a garden… cool. But it’s a mess so I have to work on restoring it by finding things in the house to sell at a jumble sale. I’m not feeling really competitive right now, so I chose to do the version that wasn’t timed. Searching each room, I find the things that people want to buy.
Some are really challenging! But there are hints throughout the room that give me clues. My favorite was the red hot or ice cold game. Whenever you find a thermometer in the room, it helps you find your items by heating up or freezing the image of the item you are looking for, depending on how close it is to your cursor.
Another hint is a camera. When you find a camera, it takes a picture and only shows the items you are looking for briefly and whites out the rest of the room. You have to remember where each item is and quickly grab them before you forget!
As you go from room to room, you earn money that you can use to decorate and restore your garden the way you want to. For each decoration, you can choose between three styles to purchase. You can even go back and purchase the other styles if you want to change from say lion marble statues to eagle marble statues.
From time to time, people will send you letters offering to purchase old books or wine from your collection. Then you have to go find 20 books to sell to this person so you can make even more money!
Overall… if I had to rate this game on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 was awesome, I’d give it an 8! It was just what I needed on a nice relaxing, rainy day back home. Without the timer, I could take my time picking out the items and I enjoyed decorating and restoring the garden. It definitely beats real gardening work that’s for sure! Man I love this time of year! Happy Thanksgiving gamers! Eat, drink, and play!
