Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece ($1.99)
Version – 1.0
Review – “Fun strategy game that will stretch your intellect!”
My wife loves to play games on the internet. There are a lot 
of games that make you think of words, or piece things together, or find things out there. What Simon Graham and 
the Extraordinary Timepiece does is take a lot of those different game concepts, and tie them all together with a storyline. The end result is a creative strategy game that forces your brain to be firing on all cylinders!
The game loads up very quickly, and the main menu is very well done. It looks nice, but is extremely simple and functional. There is the option to start a new 
game, continue your game if you have played it previously, open up an options menu, or view the games credits. The only “Option” in the menu is to turn the music on or off. While the music at the menu is alright, it does get a little bit old after a while of playing so it is nice to be able to turn it off if you want to.
Once you get to the actual game the first thing you’ll see is a pop up box that will start to tell the storyline of the game. The basic story is that a child named Simon Graham’s grandmother has been kidnapped and he has to find her! She’s left him clues along the way and so you’ll have to use your deductive reasoning skills if you want to rescue her!
I found some of the games to be easy to figure out quickly, while others required me to think about them 
for a while until I was able to find a way to complete them. While most of them I was able to figure out without too much trouble, there were a couple that had me stumped for quite some time!
The controls are very simple. While they will change from game to game, you are given instructions that will make them easy to learn quickly. A few of my favorite games types in this game were the word puzzles, and the math ones. With that said, they’re all 
a lot fun. Although it definitely would have been nice to have some kind of a “hint” feature for when you get really stumped.
All things considered the only really negative things I have to say about this app are that the music gets old pretty fast, and that if you do get stuck on a puzzle for a while it gets boring fast because of the linear nature of this game. With that said, ifyou are a fan of puzzle games, this one will keep you busy for a long time! It offers plenty of variation in gameplay, and it has a lot of different puzzles. Simon Graham and the Extraordinary just entered the App Store yesterday evening, and it is just $1.99. So if you like puzzle games then what are you waiting for? Check it out for yourself in the App Store today!
- David H.
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Developer – The App House, LLC
URL: http://www.extraordinarytimepiece.com
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