sandhan wrote:

I notice  My Singing Monsters is listed as  today's  #1 download;  not sure if I believe it.  However,  it sure does grow on you!  There's always something new;  I just got the time machine.  What a hoot!

I'm curious as to why you wouldn't believe it.   There's been numerous games at #1 thatI've felt weren't as good as some of the games listed behind them, but I've just put that down to my having more discerning taste (said with tongue in cheek).   The reviews in the forums and on the game pages have mostly been positive for this game.  The game forum is certainly active. 

If the old CCC gang was truly reflective of the customers as a whole (and I'm not sure that's true, since many seemed to just be there for the companionship and boasted of buying their games elsewhere), people were getting tired of what they perceived as cookie-cutter HOPA's churned out on a conyevor belt and wanted something different.  Well, they're now getting it in spades.

At some point I hope to get caught up enough on my purchased games so that I can try some of these free ones.  Did this game recently issue an update?  That would cause a spike in the downloads.

I have finished Left in the Dark: No One on Board and I liked it very much. I played it in one sitting, rather easy (I only skipped one puzzle which I didn´t understand what to do) and with a jump map. Now I´m altering between Siren´s Call and Echoes of Sorrow 2.

Wendy, in FarmUp you can´t cancel an active quest but if you have enough gold coins you could pay for it to be finished. And if you have reached the world map you could choose if you want to OK  a quest or cancel it. Read careful because in the beginning I just pressed accept and had a lot of undoable quests because of not having leveled up to buy the things they wanted.
I´m on level 39 and haven´t payed a single cent
( I´m persistent and one quest took nearly a week to be finished!)

So anyway, I ended up not able to get to sleep last night so I demoed Gourmania 2: Great Expectations (yesterday's DD) at 2am my time and I liked it enough to buy it. Although I really like the basic idea and the combination of HO and cooking, I wasn't going to even demo it because the last time I tried a Gourmania game I thought it was ruined by having unsolicited hints that can't be turned off. This game actually didn't seem as good as the last one I tried (Gourmania 3: Zoo Zoom, I think), but it didn't have unsolicited hints! This was the main reason I bought it.

Tirama,  I guess I was skeptical about the "download list"  because of the casino game;  they were pushing it so hard.  As for  Monsters,  perhaps people are trying and liking it because of what they hear from other players.  I'm sure hooked,  though I don't intend ever to spend any real money on it.  Judging from my latest credit card statrment,  BF gets enough from me as it is!

I have Hodgepodge Hollow in my GM to demo I think I'll add Crop Dusters to it.  Such a bunch of enablers!