Spellarium 12

This Spellarium is more like a mixed-genre game with all the minigames it has: you are literally playing something different every 2 or 3 levels. There are 90 levels of the puzzle M3 games where you must collect all the coins, but it seems like there are at least that many more "minigames" total (spot the difference, solitaire, jigsaw puzzle, and mahjong) total to where they can't be called "minigames" anymore. The mahjong puzzles were toned down a bit in the difficulty from one of the other games this developer released recently - this time, there aren't any blank tiles in the layouts to get in the way. The jigsaw puzzles, despite not having many pieces and small images, can be trickier to solve than they look. The M3 levels do have a new playing piece, but it's really more about strategically matching at certain points of the puzzle to solve them, which I like. Otherwise, the plethora of widgets which has been gradually introduced to the series over time is back, but with so many different items in the puzzles, it's interesting enough to not be overly boring if you've enjoyed other games in the series. I enjoyed the scene building this time around, although it's a pretty big stretch of the imagination to see how that's even possible. But hey, I'd live in some of those buildings, and because there isn't a comments or like button in the game itself, putting it here, LOL. I found Eric's occasional griping about how he was going to get things accomplished funny. Guess that's what happens when you've abused your workers in the early games a few too many times and now you're stuck doing everything on your own. Difficulty isn't taxing, and if you get stuck, the game pretty much offers you a built-in walkthrough on the M3 levels if you keep pressing the Hint button. If you just wanted a M3 game, all the other content being thrown at you constantly might be off-putting, but I otherwise enjoyed it.