Parents' Guide to Build-a-lot

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android Strategy Games
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Christopher Healy By Christopher Healy , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 9+

Real estate made entertaining and suspenseful.

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BUILD-A-LOT's real-estate-boom concept may feel a little behind the times, but the game itself makes flipping properties far more fun than you'd ever expect. With so much to do for each challenge, and the timer always ticking down, you'll often feel that "Ah! I'm never going to make it in time!" pressure, but then the market suddenly changes and you rush to buy up a new colonial or to sell that rambler you've modernized and -- voila! -- you've got enough money to build that post office after all. Build-a-lot is a very different kind of strategy game, and that refreshing change of pace is very welcome and appreciated.

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