Ever since the days of Pacman and Centipede on Atari’s gaming system, it has been fascinating for us to understand what is so compelling about games. What is it about games that invites us and seduces us to divorce our realities and immerse ourselves in an alternate reality and invest into what appears to be a total waste of time. There are many ingredients to a great and compelling game. Here we have the 10 most addictive games of Facebook from 2011.
10. Farm Town
Farm Town is developed by Slashkey. Its similar to FarmVille by zynga. Farm Town has got more than 18 million monthly active users. The strategy of the game is same to build and maintain your own farm. Plow your land, plant new seeds and harvest the crops. Both games are almost same with few difference that you can try yourself.
9. Mafia Wars
Mafia Wars is a multiplayer Social network game created by Zynga. In Mafia Wars the gamers play as gangsters building their own mafia. The players fight other players online and complete tasks to gain rewards and strength in the game. The game revolves around fighting other players and doing jobs to earn cash, items and experience, with the goal of establishing and advancing one’s criminal empire.Players create mafias by recruiting other players. In-game generated mafia members can be added to the player’s mafia by Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and Yahoo! allow players to recruit from friends to build their mafia and fight against other players. Players can also improve their stats by visiting the Marketplace (i.e., making a micropayment).
8. Sushi Panic
Whether you are a sushi lover or not, this sushi-based tetris-like game is guaranteed to keep you at the edge of your seat, especially when those sushi pieces start rushing by in the speed of light! The game is simple: group similar sushi pieces together as they pass by on the conveyor for score and to prevent the jam which would end up in a sad game over… leaving the poor sushi behind!
7. Monster Galaxy
Monster Galaxy was released in December of 2010 and is one of the first attempts to make a clone of one of the Nintendo Pokemon RPGs that are designed to promote social play amongst users. Monster Galaxy focuses on the user training monsters and collecting in a free game with more than 120 distinctive monsters at the time of this writing that can do battle or capture additional monsters for the player to use in searching for items or building experience points.
6. Bejeweled Blitz
If you are into fresh colors, unique music and using your logic, Bejeweled Blitz is for you! Although it is similar to many games that we have all played in the past, it has a unique touch that will keep you coming back for more! It has time extension and special gems, this game is guaranteed to keep your fingers stuck to your keyboard for at least a few hours in a row – Do NOT try this at work! ????
5. Restaurant City
This seems to me like it would be the most unsatisfying game of the bunch, but people love creating their own restaurants in Restaurant City — a game that lets you get in the biz without the chance for actual, real life failure. After starting your dinery, you can hire your (Facebook) friends to work as waiters and chefs and create a menu to please your diners. Make sure you keep real life snacks close at hand because you’re bound to get hungry!
4. Bubble Island
This exciting puzzle game is based on a very popular arcade model which has been modified for social gaming purpose. Here a user shoots bubble-cannon which explode bubbles of similar colors to step forward through various stages in the Bubble Island.
3. Millionaire City
Rent-hiking landlords and property-flipping real estate barons are no fun … unless you get to be one of them. That’s the role Millionaire City allows gamers to play. Users buy property, develop homes, get tenants to sign contracts, and spruce up the land in order to jack up the rent. They fuel their expansion with credits earned during the game or bought with an actual credit card. Every month, nearly 10 million users log on to chase “millionaire” status. So exactly how many millionaires are there? To date, more than 10 million players have reached the benchmark. Hey, if it’s not happening in real life, then why not in a virtual one?
2. Happy Aquarium
Happy Aquarium is one of the fastest growing games on facebook with over 27 million monthly active users. Happy Aquarium by CrowdStar is better than the similar fish inspired game FishVille. You are given a fish tank and some coins to start your game. You can purchase your own fishes from the store and train them. The store has wide variety of fishes. The started tank can hold 10 fishes but as you progress through the game, you can expand your tank by earning some coins. You can decorate your tank with gravel, wallpapers or some special items that can be purchased from the store. You need to feed your fishes daily. Tank also get dirty with time so you should also clean it regularly otherwise your fishes will get sick. When your fishes become adult, you can mate the male and female fishes of same species. Fishes are only allowed to mate once a day.
1. CityVille
CityVille is a browser based casual social city-building simulation game developed by Zynga as an application for the social-networking website Facebook. The game attracted 100,000 players on its launch day making it Zynga’s largest launch ever at the time of its release. On January 2, 2011, it reached the most monthly active users for an application ever on Facebook, beating Farmville’s previous record. The game allows Facebook members to become the mayor of a virtual city and to oversee its development into a large metropolis. Players can perform tasks, which include farming, construction, and rent collection in their city using energy points. The amount of energy available increases as the user gains in experience levels. The energy points are replenished automatically at a constant rate.
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