{"id":18098,"date":"2018-07-18T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2018-07-11T02:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:38:50","slug":"seeds-the-magic-garden-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/seeds-the-magic-garden-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEDS: The Magic Garden (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So there\u2019s this caterpillar\/beetle bug thing that likes to grow plants.\u00a0 But his garden mysteriously dies so you must help him grow it back in this free-to-play color matching puzzle game called SEEDS (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 The game also gives you a chance to grow a real tree, too!\u00a0 Read on to find out more!<\/p>\n

So now you may be thinking, \u201cOh great, another match-three puzzle game.\u201d \u00a0But it\u2019s not like that at all!\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ve never played another puzzle game quite like this one.\u00a0 On each playfield, on the bottom is a seed.\u00a0 You must get it to grow to a particular spot at the top.\u00a0 When you slide two tiles of the same color and the seed is right by it, a vine will grow between the two tiles.\u00a0 Keep matching tiles until the plant is at the very top where it needs to grow.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not that easy!\u00a0 Some stages you have limited moves, and in others you must make the vine a certain length.\u00a0 The game actually has a little steeper learning curve because of that, which is unusual in the casual games market.\u00a0 If you match more than two colors, you might be able to add more moves or make tiles that two colors can match to.\u00a0 Use coins you earn when defeating levels to buy power-ups like a pickaxe for destroying tiles or a rake for switching two faraway colors.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a pretty fun little puzzler, it just takes longer to get the hang of then most other mobile games of this ilk.<\/p>\n

One other interesting thing about the game is the press release I got says that if you beat the game, they\u2019ll plant a real tree somewhere in your honor.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see that in the game, and there\u2019s no way I\u2019m beating it anytime soon.\u00a0 But you can donate the coins you earn to save a tree or even an acre of them in real life.\u00a0 But saving one tree costs about 1800 coins, and when reviewing this game I only got about 100.\u00a0 So you\u2019re really going to have to EARN that tree!\u00a0 Still a nice sentiment, though, I suppose.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there\u2019s this caterpillar\/beetle bug thing that likes to grow plants.\u00a0 But his garden mysteriously dies so you must help him grow it back in this free-to-play color matching puzzle game called SEEDS (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 The game also gives you a chance to grow a real tree, too!\u00a0 Read on to find out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18100,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions\/18100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}