Snowy: Puzzle Islands 1.0

After searching for treasure in Africa, the Middle East and the Mayan jungle in Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2 and after having to deal with “the madcap world of food service” in Snowy: Lunch Rush, the lovable and cute polar bear who can’t sit still for a second embarks on a new adventure in Snowy: Puzzle Islands.

Here’s how Alawar Entertainment, the game’s developer, presents Snowy: Puzzle Islands:
“Snowy: Puzzle Islands is an adventure through a colorful world made of switches, moving platforms, teleporters and locked gates. Your goal on each of the game's 100 levels is to use these objects to help Snowy reach the exit. Along the way, you can collect fruit bonuses and other goodies.”

The 100 levels Alawar Entertainment mentioned above are divided in to 60 regular levels and 40 levels meant for children. To ne more precise, these 40 levels are meant to teach children simple logic skills.

If Snowy: Puzzle Islands sounds like an interesting game and you would like to try it out, you need to know that there are two ways of doing so. If you want to try it out right now, you can play the game online by simply clicking here. Just click the link and you can start playing the game in your browser; you don’t have to download or install anything.

If you’re not that anxious you can download the game (the download weighs in at 11MB) and install it on your Windows-powered computer. Once you do that you can play the game free of charge for a trial period of 60 minutes. One hour is more than enough time to realize if you like the game and decide if if you want to pay for a license to keep playing it after the 1 hour trial expires.

A word of warning about the installation process. You will be asked to change your default search provider, you will be asked if you want to change your homepage, and you will be asked if you want to install Game Box (contains Alawar Entertainment’s catalog of games). If you don’t want to change your homepage or search engine, or if you don’t want to install the Game Box, make sure to opt out.

Pros

• 60 regular levels
• 40 levels for children
• Nice graphics and soundtrack

Cons

• Offers to set Ask as your default homepage
• Offers to set Ask as your default search provider
• Cannot select the directory where the game will be installed
• Creates an Alawar Games shortcut on your desktop without asking; the shortcut is not removed when you uninstall the game.

About Alawar Entertainment
Founded in Russia back in 1999, Alawar Entertainment is a company that specializes in the development, publication and distribution of casual games. To date the company has published more than 200 PC games that reached users in more than 60 countries. Alawar Entertainment’s games can be played on various platforms, including the Windows operating system, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, Playstation and the iPhone. You may already be familiar with some of the company’s best known titles, such as Farm Frenzy, Craze and The Treasures of Montezuma.

Additional information on Alawar Entertainment and the casual games it has to offer is available here.

Snowy: Puzzle Islands has been reviewed by George Norman on 25 Jan 2011. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Snowy: Puzzle Islands 5 out of 5 stars, naming it Essential