If you like relaxing a little bit with a casual game on Facebook but have already built your barn, planted all the roses you care to plant and milked all of the alien cows on Farmville, then you might want something slightly different.
Treasure Quest by Big Fish games has an incarnation on Facebook that is worth checking out. Oh no, you think, if you are like me, I really don’t want to blast my friend’s pages with endless requests for materials or guilt them into signing up to play with me. Well, Treasure Quest does no such thing.
Instead it is a game within a game, or more accurately, several games within several other games within a game. You can become a slave to moving ahead in rank, or ignore it all and just have fun. You can frantically try to amass gold and show off your blinged out avatar, or simply leave her or him dressed casually in jeans and a t-shirt. It is all up to you.
Treasure Quest offers you a daily challenge that changes each day. Using the existing games, here are two goals to meet (if you want) that will earn you a treasure chest. Treasure chests contain gold and experience points that you can use to level up and make purchases for your avatar or for additional gaming time in certain games.
The games themselves are fun to play, and I sometimes find myself ignoring the daily challenges just to spend time on my favorites.
Some of the available games are rips on the same theme, such as solitaire or video poker. Despite that, I still find myself playing them anyway because the different themes or twists to each game are charming. A good example of this is Oz Video Poker in which the goal is to get Dorothy home.
One of my favorite games is in Treasure Quest is Mush. The goal is to race across the frozen tundra with your sled team before the other guy (or gal) does. Dealt cards determine your options, such as adding an extra dog, mushing across the stow or hitting your opponent with a visit from the Abominable Snowman (a dentist card will happily make him go away).
The Daily Detective is another delight. This classic hidden object game is take straight from the very popular Big Fish Games series, but with some changes, such as clues to solve the mystery and the lack of a timer, making what was already a casual game even more casual.
So if you have a few moment to spare while trying to think up a new clever Facebook status, head over to Treasure Quest.
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