Adventure Bay
By Christopher Healy,
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"Velvet rope" sim is imaginative, but it eats up time.
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In terms of content, ADVENTURE BAY is a step above and beyond most city-building sim apps. It's got all the requisite elements, like buildings to purchase, crops to grow, etc. But it also allows you to amass a whole crew of different characters, each of whom can go on individual quests, which are played out in board-game-like mini-games. And Adventure Bay lets you collect different sets of treasures and trade them with friends; connecting with a lot of friends will help you move forward faster. It is a "velvet rope" app, though, and you'll be forced to wait hours for things to happen unless you use your time-speeding "spice." Adventure Bay can also eat up a lot of time, because you need to check in on the game frequently. If you plant some crops and set a ship off on a quest, and then don't play again until the next day, you can find those crops wilted and your ship returned empty-handed. So, ask yourself if you want a game that you are required to play every few hours.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Pricing structure: Free
- Release date: December 5, 2010
- Category: Simulation Games
- Publisher: ngmoco, LLC
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated: August 23, 2016
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