Grimm's Hatchery
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| Developer(s) | Amaranth Games |
| Publisher(s) | Amaranth Games |
| Distributor(s) | Amaranth Games |
| Release date(s) | April, 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Pet/Farm Sim |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
Raise magical animals, collect their eggs, and get even with your evil brother as you reclaim your rightful inheritance.
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Summary
Grimm's Hatchery features an old-school visual style with cute, non-threatening imagery. Buy, sell, and experiment with new types of animals as you raise your way up the social ladder from a destitute peasant to a wealthy nobleman to reclaim your rightful inheritance.
Description
You start with the first of four hatcheries, which can only handle the cheapest, most basic animals. As the day (60 seconds) progresses in real-time, your animals wander around laying eggs, and letting you know when they are hungry. You must click on each egg to collect it and you must also click away at monsters that appear to prevent them from killing your animals.
Between rounds, you can sell the eggs you've collected, try to hatch them using your hatching pot, or sell the animals themselves. You then buy more food for the following day(s), medicine to heal them should they get wounded by monsters or poisoned, and better weapons so that monsters require fewer clicks to be killed.
As your profit increases, you can chat with local townspeople to find out how you can advance to the next hatchery and move up in the social ladder, offering you access to new towns. These advancements in turn allow you to choose more advanced types of creatures and experiment with the more advanced features in the game like the Pet Lab, where you can try to create a new type of pet from the eggs of two others.
Crystals
The egg collection process is spiced up by the introduction of crystals, which have various effects on your pets when you click on them. Some will poison or kill your pets outright, but others will feed all of your pets for you simultaneously or even cause them all to lay an extra egg instantly!
Background & History
Grimm's Hatchery is the second game released by Amaranth Games, which also developed and published the "RPG Lite" game Aveyond.
Tips & Tricks
- Be careful -- blindly clicking away to collect eggs can cause you to accidentally click on a bad crystal like the poison (green) or kill (white) crystals, which can wipe out most if not all of your pets in a single day!
- In the early game, be sure to not just buy as much food and medicine as you can afford each week. Keep enough for a day or two, but remember that saving up money is the only way to progress in the game -- and that new sword you've been eying may be just what you need to get ahead!
Reviews
Official site
http://www.amaranthia.com/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23
See Also
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