The only real downer to me was that it was too hard.

To be fair this game has a lot of positives - nice graphics, interesting storyline and you will be challenged. What ruined it for me was the exorbitant amount of mouse clicking required to destroy the attackers. Simply ridiculous. You have an excellent opportunity to develop a serious callous on your index finger and/or wear out your mouse. Other than that, go for it! Peace.

If I could have given it NO stars I would have. Truly BORING!

Definitely not the same sort of game as the Diner Dash types, Grimm's Hatchery offers good replay value to see three different endings. It can be challenging the first couple of times you play, but once you get the hang of the "economics" of the game, it becomes more of an arcade type test of reflexes. The last hatchery, especially, is fiendishly difficult (but, of course, it is also the most rewarding).

brilliant little game, the kids love it!

Your mother, who was queen of the kingdom, married a greedy man who took over her kingdom. When he died, his evil son, your step brother, inherited the kingdom and the castle, and plans to drive you out of the country. The only way to reclaim your rightful inheritance as ruler of the kingdom, is to earn 300000 gold money in 80 days. To obtain this, you start a magical pet hatchery. You buy pets that lay eggs, like geese, dragon flies, griffons, dragons etc., and your job is to collect the eggs while defending your pets from attacking monsters. You can either sell the eggs cheaply for some quick money, or hatch them and sell the creatures for a considerably higher price. But approx 19 out of 20 eggs turn out to be rotten instead of hatching a new pet, so it takes a lot of time and patience - and eggs - to make money that way. You start out in the poor quarters with a small farm, but by doing quests for the locals, you can gradually obtain keys to better areas of the town and bigger hatcheries with more valuable pets. The creatures you can hatch are so cute, and I enjoyed the extra challenges of needing to reach certain goals to unlock new hatcheries and areas. Getting quests from the town's citizens was also fun, and I enjoyed the pet laboratory where you mix different eggs to create new species. Every day you can search every area of town that you have access to, for extra items and money that the citizens have dropped, and you can talk to them for extra hints, quests and pieces of the storyline. There are also several vendors for pets, eggs and other items. But it is rather fast paced; the monsters are many and require many slaps even with upgraded weapons, and they don't stop harming your pets while you fight them - which often results in your pet getting killed even though you slap all you can at the monster. They also starve rather quickly, so while you're busy fighting the monsters, your pets may die because you can't feed them fast enough. As you advance to new areas, you'll b

This is a difficult, involved and fascinating game. You have to hatch geese and occasionally there will be a golden egg which gives a golden goose to use on the next level. It becomes harder on each level but the creatures are fascinating. You collect their eggs and sell them, or mix them together with other eggs to produce different species. The whole point of the game is to beat the lord that has taken over the castle by presenting him with differing amounts of cash. If anyone loves Amaranth games, then this is the game for you.

At first I was unimpressed with Grimm's Hatchery because I made it all the way through the game without realizing that the game changes a bit depending upon the difficulty level. I don't mean the standard gets harder type of change, I mean there were more interesting options on levels besides the very easiest. So after coming back to see if I could get some more out of the game & discovering that, I was a bit satisfied. The sounds in this are NOT pleasing. I found myself unable to turn them off (only the music) so I had to go out of full screen each time & mute my whole computer. You do NOT want to hear the sounds of constant saving/restarting & in this game, I often did that up to 20 times in a couple of minutes bec. of the eggs. To destroy bugs, you need to click many, many, many times & that can get a bit tedious but sometimes that tedium is outweighed by the satisfaction of the rest of the game. Overall, if Grimm's Hatchery had had at least 4 or 5 additional animals in it, or some side quests or just more MEAT to it, I'd have given it 5 stars for sure. It felt lacking but it was still fun & mostly satisfying - enough that I was willing to do all that saving/restarting!