Gnomes Garden Christmas Story

As a rule of thumb, everything you do in a video game should be at least a little difficult, because the challenge is the satisfying part. It may be great to get loot for doing nothing at all, but you do not really feel like you have earned it this way. Hence, fighting enemies or simply solving puzzles is a lot more satisfying than watching the screen and waiting for things to happen.

Gnomes Garden Christmas Story is a simple time management game in which you have to assist a village of gnomes as they get ready for Christmas and the coronation of their new princess. The game features the usual mechanics found in the genre, which means that you run around gathering resources, build structures and deal with a variety of other objectives as quickly as you can.

The story begins when the gnomes are just about ready to begin the festivities, except that their noise has also woken up a nasty troll living nearby. Upset, the troll steals their Christmas tree and ruins their holidays, that is unless the gnomes do something about it. Thankfully, the future princess is more than eager to return the tree, so she goes on an adventure with her friends.

You start with a handful or workers and a map full of food, wood and a variety of other resources, which have to be gathered by your units and used for rebuilding structures. Sometimes the objectives actually require you to hoard a specific amount of resources in order to complete them, which is by no means difficult, but it can be time consuming and repetitive.

The other goals never differ that much either, which means that the whole experience can get pretty stale after a while, that is unless you don’t overstay your welcome. As for the graphics, the technology used is very old and basic, but the artwork is colorful and pleasant, so it doesn’t really matter that the whole thing is about as cutting age as Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

In spite of the fact that it gets repetitive and there are no new gameplay elements at play, Gnomes Garden Christmas Story is still a pretty neat time management flick. Hence, all you need is a bit of patience and a lot of love for the genre in question.

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