Once upon a time there an enchanted place filled with happy fairies and wonderous magical forests. Then one day, a force so evil that we don’t even want to say its name, entered upon this fantastical hamlet and began to threaten the wholesomeness and happiness of the village of pixies. The sweet fairies simply could not let this mountain of malevolence continue on his destructive journey so they ventured out to save their cherished abode.   Take part in their escapades and travel through 100 levels of humorous and light-hearted games.

No, this isn’t about required high school reading. This mac game is an adaptation of the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days where you will play a game that takes you … around the world in 80 days! I thought you might have guessed that. Actually, you have only 80 days to circumnavigate the globe. You’ll be on an adventure of a lifetime traveling across four continents by land, air and sea with dare devil Philieas Fogg and his assistant, Passepourtout. In order to complete your 80 day mission, you are called upon to solve matching gem puzzles. The successful completion of these puzzles will allow you to continue on your worldly journey. You will definitely enjoy this game if you liked 4 Elements, The Rise of Atlantis and The Call of Atlantis, which were all made by the developers who made Around the World in 80 Days.

Join Ashely Jones as she travels to the Heart of Egypt on her first excavation assignment. Enjoy the classic style of this match 3 mac game as you travel through Egypt in search of buried artifacts. As you swap colored jewels, match 3 or more like colors in a row. To pass each level, be sure and match 3 or more on a the blue boxes, and when an Egyptian artifact appears, get it to the bottom of the grid promptly. As you uncover more and more artifacts, place them in your personal museum for later viewings. Earn major points by hitting big combos, and solving the puzzle quickly. Enjoy traveling around these perfectly drawn monuments of Egypt in this timeless mac game, and for more match 3 adventures please be sure to play Around The World.

From National Geographic comes an intense archeologic adventure of King Herod the Great. As you embark on a hidden objects hunt, journey into fabulous photos from the middle east exploring ancient sites, where King Herod’s tomb may be hidden. Use your hidden objects skills to find items on your list. As you pass scenes, which are beautiful photos from the NatGeo archives, dive deeper and deeper into the life and death of the famous ruler King Herod of Judea. Herod’s Lost Tomb is based on a t.v. special from National Geographics, with highlights from the show, and over a thousand of items to find. Enjoy the sixteen environments and the 5 mini games and please be sure to check out other hidden object mac games like Dream Chronicles 2.

Good friends from the Nightshift Code, Isabel and Mike are out in the field again searching for stolen artifacts that may answer some unsolved questions. Start off this game in the depths of the Guatemalan jungles. Search for hidden objects that are on your list. Be fast and accurate as you only have a certain amount of time and random clicks will deplete your time. The game play is like most hidden objects games, scattered scenes with just enough items to find. Get sucked into this mac game by the intriguing comic book style story line. As you pass scenes, travel to different parts of the world and different times in history. Enjoy the cleverly crafted scenes in more than 20 unique locations as you find out the secrets of the Jaguar’s Eye.

The beaches of Hawaii are known for being beautiful and wondrous. But when the population grows, and trash becomes more abundant, where does it all go? Hopefully not on the beach! In Recyclorama, nature lover Mia won’t just sit back and let her homeland be destroyed by trash. Mia is determined to do something about it, and she then decides to open up her own recycling center. As you sort out the trash from the recyclables, clean and compact it to earn major points. Once you establish yourself as a qualified recycler, you will be asked to open up more centers around the world. Enjoy the fast paced action of 50 levels in five different locations. Do your part, play Recyclorama, and recycle your way to countless hours of fun. For another mac game about going green and helping our planet, check out the mac game Garden Dreams.

These days with soaring ticket prices people are flying less. However, this is not true for the mac game Now Boarding. This time management game involves pick ups and deliveries and making sure the passengers make it to their destination. You will be in control of everything: arrivals, departures, loading and unloading. As the new manager of an almost failing airport, try to turn this place around. Reach the goals set out for you to make this place profitable again. As you gain more customers and earn more money, spread your knowledge to other airports. Use the money you earn to upgrade the airports with more seats, stores, and snacks to keep all of the passengers comfy. Enjoy the fast pace of working at the airport and remember to never leave anyone behind. Buy the full version to enjoy all four game modes. And if you love these time management mac games, check out Airport Mania.

Mahjong Roadshow blends the peacefulness of mahjong with the enthusiasm of antiquing. Start this mac game off by getting a little help from the very knowledgeable uncle Henry. He will show you the ins and outs of the antique game and help you to become a quality collector. As you journey from attics to yard-sales, match antique tiles to get them off of the board in search of most valuable ones. As you match tiles, earn money that will help you if you get stuck, or you want something appraised. The main objective of this game is to get a prize worthy collection for the upcoming Roadshow Auction. Enjoy hunting for antiques in seven different locations and rummaging through 350 different mahjong tiles. Do you have an eye for valuable antiques? Test your skills on Mahjong Roadshow, and for more mahjong madness please play Smack Mahjong.

Hopefully you are a fan of sushi, because this mac game set in the big blue is just like the title says, a Feeding Frenzy. As you explore the depths of the open ocean, eat your way to the top of the food chain. Start the game off as a smaller fish, and let the Feeding Frenzy begin. As you start to devour more and more fish, you will keep growing and will eventually become big enough to take on the king of the sea shark. As you pass levels, travel to different parts of the sea to hunt for other unique fish. Be fast about eating the fish and you will get mega bonus points, special levels, and mermaid power-ups. Dive into this fast paced underwater mac game, and check out Tasty Planet for another great arcade style game involving the survival of the hungriest.

The roaring 20′s was a prosperous time for many, and a great opportunity for an up and coming Chocolatier. This might be your chance to earn some money while supplying chocolate treats. Travel to San Francisco and start working at Baumeister Confections, the local chocolate company in need of some new talent. Here you will learn the tricks of the trade and the best places to find quality ingredients. While you are on your travels, talk to the people and learn new chocolate recipes while gathering the ingredients you need. Bring this newly acquired knowledge back to San Francisco and put it to good use. As you become the master of the chocolate craft, sell the fresh chocolates you have made to connoisseurs that love chocolate as much as you. There are more than 200 quests that will take you to many famous cities, and 72 fancy recipes to learn. Be on the look out for Secret Ingredients as you hone your Chocolatier skills.

Start off this match 3 adventure game by picking your character. All characters have unique abilities and traits, so read their description and pick one suited for you. After that, travel to Ethera and prepare for your epic quest. As you embark on your journey of good versus evil, search your map for new land to conquer. But watch out for the enemies, they are waiting. Combat battles will happen, and this is when your match 3 skills come into play. Go head to head against the enemy, matching 3 colored tiles will give you mana points or hurt your opponent. You can also earn money and combat experience that will help you in the future. Whoever runs out of life points first loses, so be accurate. Use the money you have earned to buy new weapons or armor. Then travel the lands for more towns to conquer while still protecting your own. Enjoy the popularity of Puzzle Quest on your mac, and for another game with knights and warriors play KingMania.

Pack your bags and get your passports ready because you are about to travel Around the World. As you embark on a trip of a lifetime, be prepared to match 3 your way to different countries. Watch the plane at the top of the screen, it is your timer, but as you match more and more it slows down and even backs up. There are 10 different cities you will eventually travel to, and as you pass levels, a picture will start to reveal where you are. Once you finally reveal the whole picture, fly over to the next city for more match 3 madness. If you don’t have much time but need your match 3 fix play in quick game mode, or if you have some time give unending mode a try.  And later, grab a game or two of  Maui Wowee, another match three game with a Hawaiian twist.

Here’s a mac game made for the mahjong lover. Travel to ancient China where Kwazi needs your help. In order to restore peace and tranquility to his empire, you must help him solve the plethora of Mahjong puzzles. The way to play Mahjong Quest is very simple; just start with a tile on the board, then find the matching one. There are rules though. The tiles you pick must not be surrounded entirely by other tiles, and you want to clear all of the tiles. In Mah Jong Quest, there are three different modes depending on your preference. These include Classic, Kwazi’s Quest, and Puzzles. In Classic Mode, choose from 80 traditional layouts to try out your Mahjong skills. Kwazi’s Quest is a story mode where you travel through the Orient helping Kwazi by solving Mahjong puzzles. And in puzzle Mode, solve beautifully designed puzzles in traditional Mahjong style. Mah Jong Quest is classic mahjong matching fun with an abundance of puzzles. After you conquer Mah Jong Quest, be sure to play Smack Mahjong for more thoughtful tile matching puzzles.

Jane has already conquered the hotel business, now she is here to give her husband a hand on the Realty side. Help Jane as she travels from city to city developing new little towns. Find the perfect location to build power plants and water towers, then start to develop the whole town. First buy lots, some might have to be demolished, pick the building you want to go right there, and build away. Make the houses livable and rent them out as fast as you can. Then sit back and collect all of the hard earned money you deserve. Once your goals are completed at one town, move to the next for some more challenges. Help Jane prove to her husband that she has what it takes to succeed in the Real Estate business, and help Jane run a successful Hotel in Jane’s Hotel: Family Hero .

Here is my favorite restaurant worker Flo, and she is back for another time management adventure. First start off in Flo’s closet, where you can dress Flo up however you want. Then you can choose between Story Mode, or Endless Shift. Like in all of these Diner Dash games, it is about customer service. As restaurant goers enter the place, seat them quickly, take their orders and bring them their food, and always make sure to wear your fabulous smile. Things can get kind of hectic like in all restaurants, just try your best to help Flo out. The great part of Flo Through Time is all of the different years you get to travel through, you will notice that the restaurants and customers take on the era that you are in. Once you have mastered the time traveling restaurant business, give Flo a hand with the vacationers in Seasonal Snack Pack.

Not your ordinary bubble shooter, Luxor 2 adds a  surprising twist that makes it much more satisfying. During your travels to Egypt, choose between three modes, which include Adventure, Survival, and Practice. Adventure mode takes you to the streets of Egypt, where you’ll shoot colored balls to the row to match three or more. You will notice that the row of balls aren’t on a track like usual bubble shooters. The row of balls flows through the city streets in 3-d fashion. Survival mode is frantic and nonstop, for those who thrive on challenges. And Practice mode is a good way to get your feet wet. Here you’ll practice aiming and perfecting your game playing before embarking on the other game modes. Luxor 2, a mac game for players of all ages,  has 88  levels, bonus rounds and power-ups. Make sure to play the original Luxor, if you missed it the first time around, and also try Sparkle, another one of our favorite marble shooters.

Murders, mystery and mayhem! In this hidden objects game for Macintosh, travel to the lovely city of San Francisco as you explore the town trying to solve unexplained murders. This bustling and busy city has its fair share of unsolved mysteries and it is up to you and the Women’s Murder Club to seek justice. As you investigate San Francisco, find evidence and clues that will lead you to the killer, or killers. Explore the scenes with a keen eye, be as thorough as possible. Your mission is to find not only objects, but evidence like finger prints, cause of death, and clues. Some scenes require you to use some of the objects found to continue in the investigation. Help the women of San Francisco by getting these murderers off the streets! Enjoy the 18 locations throughout San Francisco and the nine unique and detailed investigations. Later, try playing Dream Chronicles, another intriguing hidden objects game.

Take to the Arabian high seas as you haggle and barter your way to riches. Tradewinds Legends is a unique style of mac game that has you completing tons of tasks to keep the story progressing. First choose 1 of the 5 very unique characters, add to your riches by visiting exotic places, buy and sell unique items and collect money for your services. Be cautious in the open seas, pirates are known to attack out of nowhere. Don’t worry too much though, your ship is armed with heavy artillery such as cannons and flame throwers. As you earn more and more money, invest in a warehouse to store your goods, arm your ship with more weaponry, and add to your fleet with more armed ships. There are 2 types of play in Tradewinds Legends, Story Mode and Free Trade Mode, explore both modes and journey to the unknown waters of the Arabian Sea. Next, try your hand at the chocolate industry in Chocolatier. Will you become a chocolate tycoon?

Join the awesome Tuttle family as they embark on an extreme adventure to the Alamo. This is an arcade style adventure game full of side scrolling entertainment. It even has Hollywood famed voice overs including Bob Saget (Barry Tuttle), Jamie Lee Curtis (Barbara Tuttle), Ashley Tisdale (Jess Tuttle), Dominic Scott Kay (Zach Tuttle), Dave Thomas (The Australian), Dave Coulier (The Native and several other characters), and William Shatner. WOW! Along with this amazing group of voices is the undeniably fun and silly plot to get to the Alamo. Play as the different characters in different levels as you come across wild and exciting obstacles. Fight off mummies, kill scorpions, and defeat wild monkeys as you make your way closer to the Alamo. To go along with this awesome game is an even more awesome cause. A first-of-its-kind fundraising initiative, benefiting the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. For every purchase of this game, a portion goes straight to the Children’s Foundation. This is a truly excellent game that will please everyone. And to play another arcade game, try Platypus.

Journey back to the ancient time when kings ruled the land and armies protected them. King Mania is an intense and fast action strategy game that is fun and entertaining. As the king of your land, guide your army as you take over and maintain your kingdom. As you establish your land attack and conquer other by sending your troops into your enemies land. Use your strategy skills and attack them when they are at their weakest. Conquer spell towers as use them in your attacks. Your kingdom will need some upgrades so use the money you acquire to reinforce your walls, build watch towers, and expand. King Mania is a fun real time strategy game based on world domination. Greed is your main focus as you take over as much land as possible. The visuals are great and this all around awesome game is casual and calm. Be sure to play Virtual Villagers, another strategic mac game.

Adventure Chronicles is an awesome hidden objects game that bring Susan from Escape The Museum back out on the field. In this game, help Susan as she travels the globe in search of lost treasures. As you travels to different locations, you must find hidden objects that are on your list. Use your sharp eyes to locate hidden objects. Some items need a certain action for it to be located e.g. using a brush to clear away dust, or an allen wrench to unscrew bolts. This made the levels a bit more realistic and spruced up the plain old hidden objects game. In Adventure Chronicles there are many useful tools, great visuals, and a fun story line to follow. They also incorporate Geocache riddles and journal clues to find bonus items. This is a great game for people of all ages, it was just challenging enough for people to want to keep playing the levels. This is an all around awesome game, fun, unique, and entertaining!

In the game Crumb, you must travel through the enchanted forest as you uncover the mysteries of what happened to the Forest mother. Travel through more than 50 scenes as you search for Crumbs to pass levels, but it’s not as easy as that. You have to plan your route, go through fire, and be cautious of your enemies. Finding all of the Crumbs in the level will get you closer and closer to the Forest mother as you will be shown pages from her journal and given clues as to her whereabouts. Be timely and plan ahead or you might get stuck on a level for a while. This game is definitely made for the younger kids. Even the graphics and characters looked like it was from a kids book. But definitely check this game out if you enjoyed Laser Dolphin.

Join me as I travel north to the Arctic. A cold and wondrous place filled with excitement and mystery. In Venture Arctic, you start your mission surveying your surroundings, check out the local animals and space. Caribou, wolves, arctic hares, and ravens are only a few of the many animals living in this frigid place. Travel through the Arctic helping animals survive and thrive as you change the seasons, help them breed, and supply food. The more you play this game, the more you realize how hard it must be to live in a place with such harsh weather. I really enjoy this game because you get a real sense of what it’s like in The Arctic. You see all of the different types of animals as well as the human elements with all of the oil wells and long oil lines. This mac game is fun and educational and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Please play Wildlife Tycoon for more fun.

Virtual Villagers 3, is a new and fun real-time sim game for Mac that is the third installation following Virtual Villagers 1 and Virtual Villagers 2. While traveling to find better lands for your people, a wicked storm forces you to head towards the north shore of this Island. Your tribe discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization. It leads them to believe that this could possibly be a new home for them. You and your small tribe are now on the Island ruins of Isola. You must be their leader as you travel the island for food, rebuild shelters, and re-populate. Uncover the mysteries of the Island of Isola as you explore and maintain structure in this time of chaos. Ease the fears of your people as you strive to take care of them. Check back on your tribe frequently events take place even when you aren’t playing, so it could use a little supervision. Have you already played this? Check out My Tribe for even more sim game fun for macs.

For the chocolate lovers in all of us! Indulge yourself in this fun simulator game that deals with all things chocolate. Be prepared to work hard and fast to take care of you loyal and needy customers. Pass out menus, take orders, and give the customers their chocolaty treats. Travel the world and work in all types of different chocolate shops. Help Evangeline Baumeister work her chocolate magic in story mode, or play endless sweets mode for your own chocolate pleasure. Have fun exploring the glorious world of chocolate and be sure to play Chocolatier and enjoy countless hours of chocolate fun.

Join Jane as she takes on the hotel business. Maintain a professional and hard working business ethic and you will go far in this game. This exciting game needs your total attention as you attend to your guest every needs. Make sure to take care of them in a timely matter, and you will pass levels with ease and earn some money. Use the money you have earned to upgrade your hotel and buy furniture. There are 40 challenging levels to keep you entertained, and you will definitely love them all! Help Jane maintain her excellent reputation by helping her out in the hotel business. Please check out Sally’s Salon if you liked this one.

StoneLoops! of Jurassica takes you on an awesome journey through five intense realms of Jurassica. Be prepared to trek through wildly dense jungles, never ending glaciers, and the depths of a monstrous volcano. There are 75 terrific levels to journey through, and nine awesome power-ups! Also, there are three different modes of play to keep you on your journey for many hours. Embark on this extremely awesome adventure and travel through Jurassica as well as your most creative imagination. Don’t be afraid to get lost in this intense game, and have as much fun as you can. StoneLoops! of Jurassica is filled with tons of action and adventure, and will keep you thoroughly entertained!

Lets take an adventurous trip to Africa! Venture Africa is a fun and exciting game that will keep you at your computer for a long time. Start off this fun game by choosing exciting animals for you African habitat. Make sure all of your animals have enough food and water to survive. If they run out of water, click the rain icon to fill up some dried up watering holes. If there aren’t enough shrubs around, click the bush icon to put some more near by. Make your ecosystem as diverse as possible, because a bunch of different species are way more fun! If you enjoy this game as much as I do, also check out My Tribe.

Be prepared to venture into the depths of your imagination. Join me as we quest through the unknown. There are 35 levels of intense adventure to enjoy and tons of different spells and bonuses. Start this adventure as a young mage with his young strong dragon, or as a young witch with her mysteriously powerful unicorn. Travel through the interesting levels to battle wild orcs, gigantic insects, and mean gargoyles to save Lake Shire. Use the powers of the mage or witch to get through these tough levels, be prepared to battle powerful and scary beast. Enjoy exploring your imagination in Archmage and defeat the evil monsters!

In Passport to Perfume, grab your special passport to perfume and run your own successful parfumerie, which is French for perfume shop. Sounds fancier in French, doesn’t it? Anyway, back to the game. Take care of your very special customers making sure they are able to find the prettiest bottles and the most fragrant perfumes that suit their personalities. During the weekend, trek to the most obscure and remote places on earth in search of wonderful new flowers and other scents to add to your unique perfume creations. It’s only you and you alone who can rule the perfume world with your enthusiasm, organizational skills and talent.

Youda Legend: The Curse of the Amsterdam Diamond manages to successfully offer one of the most entertaining hidden objects games for Mac recently. How did they do that? Good question. It seems to assemble a perfect blend of travel to one of the most iconic canal towns of Europe, that is, Amsterdam, with mystery, brain challenging puzzles and a quest for hidden items. Everything falls together impeccably and it’s simply a lot of fun. And this can all happen without the aid of mooncakes from Amsterdam’s most famous cafes! Is there another game that can match the excellence and variety of this one? Yes: Jewel Quest Mysteries.