Five Fun Games: Chasing the Shadow, Epic Brain Teasing, a Murder Mystery Rolled Up in a Carpet and More
Happy Friday! It’s another week of picks, selected by Mac Games and More of fun casual games you might not have heard of. The selection includes a gripping adventure with Sherlock Holmes, a delicious sim, Mai Tai’s beach side and more.
| Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet – Step into the shoes of the most famous detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, who has been called upon by Scotland Yard with an urgent request. With your trusted and loyal partner Watson, investigate an usual case involving a murder of a young artist, which left his dead body wrapped in a valuable but stolen Persian carpet. Start your puzzle adventure gaming at your residence, 221b Baker Street, London. There you’ll be able to perform forensic analyses on clues that you discover so you can can round up suspects. Use police reports, interrogations and witness statements to wrap up the case. Download it
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 Kakuro Epic – Kakuro Epic will be a wonderful match made in heaven for the gamers who love challenging Sudoku, math and crossword puzzles because it’s a combination of all those things. Players fill in all of the green boxes with correct numbers to pass the level. Simply insert a number into each cell so that the sum of the numbers in each row/column matches the clue sum associated with it (in the black cells). Pick from five different board sizes: 6×6, 7×7, 9×9, 12×12, 14×14; three levels of difficulty, and billions of unique puzzles. Download it
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 Delicious 2 Deluxe – Gamers who like to mix tasty food with their multitasking restaurant sim game play have come to the right place with Delicious 2 Deluxe. Play as restaurateur Emily (Remember her from Delicious Emily’s Taste of Fame?) who must come to the rescue of her uncle Antonio, who has recently gotten mixed up with the unsavory mafioso. To help his ailing business due to his irresponsible gambling debts, run a catering business as best as you can to earn as much as you can as fast as you can. Prepare and serve food and drinks to customers in a timely manner. If you take a little too long, the hungry people will become angry! Appease them with live music, flowers, clean tables – do whatever it takes to keep them happy. Happy customers will leave you bigger tips. Download it
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 She is a Shadow – This most recent hidden objects game adventure takes you through a gripping story with Hanna, an ex “shadow.” Formerly called Hanna “The Shadow” Nickson, her moniker was well earned during her life of crime as a master thief. Her previous life as a shadow was not especially rewarding particularly after the traumatic murder of her husband. Follow her story as her son gets nabbed by the mob (her old employers), and used as bait to try to lure her back into her past shadowy life. Will she get her son back? Will she find out why her husband was murdered? Will she have to kick the mob’s butt? Play She is a Shadow to find out. Download it
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 Aloha Solitaire – Grab your flip flops and beachside Mai Tai with compulsory paper umbrella inserted; it’s time to head over to our nation’s 50th and most loved state to play Aloha Solitaire. As you island hop from Oahu to the Big Island and everywhere in between, play a combination of the popular solitaire cards with tile matching Mahjong games. Pair two cards with the same value to clear them from the board. Clear all cards to advance to the next level. The Jokers are wild card bonuses and can be used to pair with any value card. Use other bonuses as well: reshuffle, powerup and more to help with clearing the playing field. Enjoy more than 70 levels as you’re transported to the Aloha State to experience a backdrop of ocean waves, birds and all things Hawaiian. Download it |
Cate Defrise is an earth and health-conscious American foodie who is developing indie mac games and apps in France. Her site is 
