Wander through 32 levels spread across 18 chapters in this lush story. Find 115 jewels and fill eight dream jewels with them. Discover Faye’s husband’s whereabouts and learn how to dismiss the sleeping spell. If you find yourself stumped, you can always refer to a walkthrough and pick up some hints.

Chocolatier. Finally, a game that’s like a box of chocolates.

A Tasty Bit of Fun

If you’d prefer some sweet action that combines the strategy and puzzle genres, you should sink your teeth into Chocolatier. Set in the late 1880s, the game sends you around the world collecting recipes and ingredients to make delicious treats. Make friends and enemies as you haggle over prices and seek to maximize your profits.

When it’s time to churn out chocolate truffles, infusions, squares, and bars, you shoot the proper ingredients into the spinning wheels as they pass by. When a wheel fills with the correct items, an arm extracts them and the machinery moves faster. You must make as many chocolates as you can in one minute; lose eight ingredients to errant shots and the machinery will stop.

In story mode, characters offer you quests that help you uncover the history of Baumeister Confections; your ultimate goal is bringing together the estranged members of the Baumeister family for a reconciliation. Once you’ve unlocked all the cities and factories in the game world, explore it in free play mode, where you set goals to achieve at your own pace.

Hang On, There’s More

You can also set the pace when you embark on a round of Tiki Magic Mini Golf, where 54 holes, spread across three exotic locations, await you. Visit Lono’s Lagoon, Lost Temple, or Fire Mountain as you putt the ball around obstacles, collecting gems while rolling through delicious drinks and other power boosts. Pull off a sweet shot and view an instant replay from any angle before moving on.

Other Freeverse-developed favorites found at MacFun include 3D Hearts Deluxe and Big Bang Reaction, which is part of the company’s Big Bang Brain Games collection. Big Bang Reaction challenges you to clear a group of molecules from the game board with the fewest number of clicks. You click molecules, increasing their size until they burst and scatter particles in all four directions. Those particles increase the size of molecules in their paths, hopefully exploding them and keeping the chain reactions going. Arrows, mirrors, wormholes, anti-molecules, and supercharged molecules keep the action interesting.

“Our unique strength is in the huge catalog of games we bring to the table, from our own casual titles to some of the best independent game makers.”

- Freeverse president Ian Lynch Smith

Big Bang Reaction. Particles in motion stay in motion, until they run out of reactions.

MacFun also features time-honored favorites from other developers, such as GameHouse’s Bejeweled 2 Deluxe and Super Collapse! 3, both of which offer new twists on classic gameplay. And if card and word games are your thing, try Ancient Spider Solitaire, Aloha TriPeaks, Super TextTwist, Bonnie’s Bookstore, and more.

A member of the Macintosh software development community for almost 15 years, with more Apple Design Awards under its belt than any other, Freeverse is the perfect company to launch a site like MacFun, says Smith. He sums it up thus: “It makes sense for people to know that a company that knows and loves the Mac is behind this new venture.”