Neopian games worth the sign up

In my last post about hanafuda, Phil dropped me a line about Go-Dori, the Neopets version of this Asian staple. Which led me to write a post about some of the very well-done casual games Neopets has to offer, even though you have to sign up first.

For those of you who managed to somehow ignore the Internet phenomenon that is Neopets, here’s a little background. The website itself is one big game. You raise cutesie virtual pets a la Tamagotchi, but, thankfully, they never die. You can raise their skill levels, open a store to sell items found around Neopia, participate in forums, and play games that earn you NeoPoints (the Neopian currency). Now that that’s out of the way, here are a few games that make the membership worthwhile.

Gadgadsgame – This puzzle game is similar to Super Puzzle Fighter, the best puzzle game ever released for any console. Ever. Or something. Anyhow, the object is to match up same type fruits with each other, so that they make larger fruits. However, the only way to make the fruits go away is a bomb that matches each fruit. To get even more points, connect as many fruits as possible before you detonate them. The one quibble I have with this excellently done in-your-browser version is that bombs don’t come out as often as one would like, so you may have a window full of fruits before you even get one bomb.

The Castle of Elive Thade – This anagram game will, inevitably, beat you down with a stick. Unless you’re good at the word jumble thing. You play a bunny-like creature (called, in the Neopian world,an Usul) that needs to find his way through the castle. In order to do so, you must move around by clicking on blocks. The further away you are from a certain block, the longer the word you need to unscramble is. Not only do you have to get from the beginning to the end,but you also need to find your way to different rooms that has different treasures. Fear not, those of you who always need some help on these type of games, there is a hint system and two different difficulty levels.

Go! Go! Go! — This is actually an Internet incarnation of the card game F.U., which does stand for what it sounds like it stands for. The game is simple, frustrating, and addictive. But you should probably read the rules before you The caveat of this particular game is that it’s been on the Neopets site for a while, so it isn’t flash based. Actually, it seems to be HTML based, so there are a lot of page loads going on. If you can’t stand that kind of thing, or just don’t have the patience for it, you should skip this one.

Those are three games that I enjoy playing, and I think are enough to lure other people into the Neopets world.  What games do you like to play?

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