Grimm's Hatchery

What it's about: The story in itself is very simple: you can get back your father's kingdom if you manage to raise 300,000 gold coins in 30 days. How? By breeding and selling all sorts of egg-hatching creatures: geese, dragons, etc., while also protecting them from monsters. You start with a poor farm and only one measly dragonfly. Do you think you have what it takes?

You also have to interact with the townsfolk via some static screens. You can talk to them or trade with them by clicking on their image, and you can also find items, if you're lucky, by looking into the possible hideouts (pots, bunches of hay, etc)

Highs: I absolutely love the imagery. Plus I like the idea it itself very much (and also the fact that there are plenty of animals for you to play with :P you can even crossbreed the ones you have to get more breeds :) )
Lows: The bloody time limit!!
Recommend: Yes, this is one of my favorite games :)

Start hatching :)

Chocolatier

What it's about: At the beginning you're the owner of one chocolate factory and your main goal is obviously to manufacture and sell some chocolate. This implies obtaining recipes and ingredients (some ingredients more exotic than other). While you travel around the world for the aforementioned items, sometimes you run into a chocolate factory that's for sale (having more than one factory enables you to manufacture more than one type of chocolate at once). You also have to find clients for your products, and thus earn some money to buy stuff. Will you be able to become the most world-renowned chocolatier there is?

Highs: A variety of actions to fulfill, always keeping you on the edge of your chair, especially as your number of factories increases as you have to keep them all well supplied.

Lows: I find it a little bit difficult to keep track of all supplies needed for all the factories for all the chocolates they're making; but to be honest that's probably part of the charm of the game :)

Recommend: Yes.

Enjoy the exotic chocolate :)

Build-a-lot

What it's about: You just have to build. A lot. Doh. You start by being the owner of a small construction firm, and each level the city mayor hires you to build a certain amount of buildings. For each building you own you get to earn some rent, however the expenses aren't finished by far when a building is finished. There are taxes, repairs, improvements, and so on. Will you be able to find an equilibrium between earning and spending so that you'll keep building-a-lot?

Highs: The suspense, the tension :P The way your fortune is growing bit by bit :)

Lows: The fact that halfway through the level the challenge is sometimes gone as you get all the money you need and more just from the rents. Well, nothing's perfect.

Recommend: Yes, I had fun with it.

Click to start building.

Plant Tycoon

What it's about: Become a plant tycoon by growing and selling your own plants. You have a certain number of pots and it's up to you to choose what you want to plant and where. Also you have to remember to water your plants and protect them from bugs (bugs that you want to catch and add to your lovely bug collection). When your plants have matured you can pollinate them for seeds or you can sell them for money (or you can pollinate them, get the seeds, and then sell them for money). Money for what, you may ask? Why, for upgrades of course. :)

Highs: The fact that you can "breed" your own seeds and species by cross-pollinating them, it's very cool as you never know what you are going to get.

Lows: The fact that you have to wait quite a while (more than 20 minutes at the highest speed) for a plant to mature; the fact that you have a limited space to store your seeds and as there's no way you could sell them you just have to throw quite a lot of them away.

Recommend: 75% yes. Especially if you are a very patient person.

Start growing your own garden :)

Beauty Factory

You play the CEO of a cosmetics company and as such you get various tasks and challenges (like reach the top ten of cosmetics companies or earn a certain amount in a given time). You get to control he products from their earlier stages, actually having to "discover" them before being able to sell them (and the fun of it is that they have to be trendy and the trends change every few weeks, LOL). You can also improve your (Sims-like) offices and you have to pay some attention to the moves of your competitors.

All in all a fun game with some original touches that makes time fly by.

Click here to try it.

Ice Cream Tycoon

One day at a park you encounter and old ice cream cart seller who offers you his business in exchange for your dog. You gladly agree and that's how your ice cream empire started :P Each day you go with your cart in the neighborhood of your choice, trying to sell as much ice cream as possible. Just remember to take the weather forecast into consideration when building your stock, and also people's preferences (they say that each neighborhood has a particular favorite ice-cream but I have yet to discover it).

A likable enough game for people that enjoy building empires :P

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Fairy Godmother Tycoon

You play as the Fairy Grandmother's assistant, and your job is to make thriving potion shops in various cities. Each day you'll have a forecast available which will tell you which curses you'll have to fight for the day, enabling you to calculate your supplies and prices wisely. You should also research for new potions trying to always be ahead of your competitors. Every once in a while some fairy character will come and ask you for help, with various outcomes depending on your answers.

The game is filled with little funny tidbits (the name of the curses being one of them) which make it quite charming. Not to mention that with all the ingredients and prices it also helps develop your math skills. This is definitely one of my favorites and a must for any tycoon games lover (actually anyone who likes casual games should at least give it a try).

Try it here.