Enchanted Forest Living: Gnome Town

Gnome Town is quite possibly the most adorable game in the history of Facebook games.

You play a gnome, like the kind you see in a Travelocity ad or your grandma’s garden. You rescue cute little furry creatures from the Evil Gnome and attempt to restore the good king to power. As you rescue cute little furry creatures, they join your town. Together, you build buildings, run businesses, grow and tend crops, raise pets, and decorate the world you inhabit.

There are, apparently, endless quests and quest lines. They increase in difficulty as you level up, and as you complete them you gain rewards. You clear the forest to find and rescue critters, exploring through the use of machetes to clear the brambles surrounding your town. The machetes are in limited supply so use them cautiously. They are given as rewards for leveling up or sometimes for completing quests, but if you want more than you can get in those ways you can purchase more. However, purchasing more requires the use of in-game gold and once you exhaust your initial gold, you’ll have to use real money to buy more.

You gather wood and other materials necessary to complete the buildings as you clear the forest and pick up debris such as leaves and mushrooms. You earn cupcakes from completing tasks, and you can use the cupcakes to speed the progress of future tasks. Use your cupcakes wisely, as you will run out quickly if you use them regularly.

Cooperative play takes two forms. The first, the more common Facebook game cooperative play mechanism of sending and receiving gifts in-game. The second is a competition between you and other players. You can choose to challenge up to five people a day. A window will pop up and give you three (Read more...)

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