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There are lots of games and puzzles that can only be appreciated if you invest lots of hours to figure out how to play them or at least get good enough to enjoy them.

Sometimes though, you just want to pick up a puzzle and start enjoying it right away.

Hexa Rune Gems is the perfect puzzle game for whenever you want a challenge that you can jump into quickly and play while you have some time to kill.

Available for free through the iTunes Store, with a $0.99 option to remove ads, this game tests your ability to imagine how multiple shapes can fit together and complete a puzzle board.

Features:

Hexa Rune Gems, from developer Craig Giannelli, challenges players to look at a puzzle board, the groups of hexagons that are your playing pieces, and along with some trial and error, figure out how to fit the pieces in the board.

The action of the game is pretty slick. When you touch a group of tiles it jumps up and then snaps to the open spots where you want the group of tiles to go. It’s simple to try a spot and then if you want, move it around to a different spot. Once you have all the groups fitted correctly the board is completed and you go to the next one.

There are four levels of play: Beginner, Advanced, Master and Expert, each with 60 boards to complete. You can select any level but you can only advance in that level by completing a board. You start with four groups of tiles and continue to more and more complex challenges where you have to fit together 10 or more groups of tiles together.

There are hints available to help you complete a board. You get one or two hints as a “Daily Gift” and ocassionally more hints as prizes when you complete a board. You can also buy packages of hints, although we think you can get many hours of play with just the hints that you collect. We made it to the 7th board of the Master level before needing one.

All that said there’s not much else here. No special challenges or side games, just more complex boards to conquer.

Appearance and Layout:

For what this game is, the layout and graphics are a great fit. There’s a cartoonish woodsy style that’s colorful, pleasant, and works well.

The overall appearance of Hexa Rune Gems is well done although somewhat repetitive. We’d like to see some variation from level to level just to perk things up a bit.

Value:

Hexa Rune Gems is a free app. Plus, as stated above, you have the option to pay $0.99 to go ad-free. The ads that do appear are not much of a problem though. They’re at the top of the game and very unintrusive.

There are also video ads but you don’t see them too much so they’re really not a problem. This is definitely a puzzle game that you can play for free without being barraged by annoying ads.

Overall, we found the concept and execution of Hexa Rune Gems to be well done.

Hexa Rune Gems delivers a fun and challenging puzzle that requires some thought but no huge time investment. It’s perfect for whenever you have a few minutes to kill and want to do a few brain pushups.

Hexa Rune Gems requires iOS 6.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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You might think that working behind the counter in a burger joint would be no fun at all. But if Burger Shop 2 is anything to go by, you’re dead wrong. It turns out that putting orders together for a succession of hungry customers from a menu of more than 100 items is a great way to kill some time.

This casual time-management sequel from developer GoBit sees you waking up in a dumpster to discover that the catering empire you built in the previous game has been cruelly taken from you.

There’s nothing for it but to start from scratch and regain everything you’ve lost the only way you know how: making fast food.

Once again you’re assisted by the BurgerTron 2000, the secret weapon that helped you dominate the fast food world in the first game. Whoever put you in that dumpster clearly missed a trick.

Your trusty robot companion issues a constant stream of food items into your restaurant via a snaking conveyor belt, while your customers wait at a counter along the bottom of the screen, requesting meals in speech bubbles.

To serve a meal you simply tap on the requested food items, and a plate if necessary, and then on the patron who ordered it. Except that only applies to the simplest of simple dishes. Pretty soon you’ll find yourself cooking food, filling glasses, toasting toast, and much more.

The Good

Burger Shop 2 is deceptively deep. New food items are added before every stage (you get to choose which ones), along with boosts and other features.

Foods need to be prepared in a variety of ways, whether in the oven, from the ice cream machine, out of the fryer, or whatever. There are toppings, too, such as butter on toast or sprinkles on ice creams, all of which makes for a dizzying number of considerations to juggle.

Over time you’ll learn to make the most of the tools at your disposal. You’ll fill fries cartons and soda glasses even when there are none on order, keep the oven working to have steak, ham, and fish ready to go, and you’ll make use of the extra place at the end of the conveyor belt, which allows you to keep one item aside.

You’ll also learn to serve your customers tactically, giving them their meals in parts rather than all at once, so that you can spread your attention equally among your impatient patrons.

The game contains different customer types with different levels of patience and different requirements in terms of the food they like to eat and how many dishes they’re going to order. Learning to identify these customer types on sight is essential if you want to maximize​ your efficiency.

It’s a tough challenge, even in the tutorial stages, but fortunately Burger Shop 2 gives you boosts in the form of lollipops that you can dish out to prevent angry customers from leaving, dog biscuits that you can give to certain customers to make them happier (and thus more generous), and even a little hovering robot called BurgerBot, whom you can deploy to fill an order for you whenever his energy bar is full.

The Bad

Burger Shop 2 isn’t getting any awards for presentation. The graphics could easily belong to a game from 2005, and during gameplay it can be difficult to connect with particular food items because they’re so small on the screen.

It can be frustrating, too. If you make a mistake you can’t simply remove the errant food item from the plate – you need to tip the whole lot into the waste disposal. In cases where cooked food is involved, this can set you back a fatal amount, for reasons that don’t feel intuitively fair. After all, you wouldn’t be expected to start from scratch in real life. Games are supposed to be more forgiving, not less.

The Verdict

Whether or not you played the first Burger Shop, if you’re a fan of casual time-management games like Diner Dash and Cook, Serve, Delicious! you’ll gobble this up. Burger Shop 2 may not be the slickest game of its type, but it has a fun story and a surprising amount of depth and challenge.

8.0

OVERALL

Replayability 8.4

Game Controls 8.1

Sound/Music 8

Gameplay 8.2

Graphics 7.3

FREE

Burger Shop 2

GoBit, Inc.

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