

Paulie can be trusted.) Pretty much his final job is to serve as your advisor, guiding you through an interface tutorial. Exposition Fairy: Paulie, one of the Godmother's longtime employees, is a goblin nearing his retirement.Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Tutorialville, the first village where you set up shop, is the game's tutorial.Crystal Ball: An upgradable tool, it allows you to look into the future to see what conditions are expected in the near future with regards to both curses and potion ingredient costs.

but peasants get cursed all the time and the cures for curses are sold by heavily-competing mafia-like corporations. Crapsaccharine World: Sure, there's magic and princes and balls and fairy godmothers.Visual Pun: The Bearzinis are gold - as in Goldilocks.Redheads Are Uncool: The Not-So-Handsome Princes are orange, and the only one of the group ever seen onscreen has hair of a similar color.Purple Is Powerful: The Magic Dragons are purple.Green and Mean: Sneersworth, in Castle City, is green.Overlaps with Red Is Violent, as this is the only rival who openly threatens to harm you. Bull Seeing Red: The Mad Cows are red.Looking at the area map shows patches of color representing the area of influence each shop and its goons have, and this is also the color representing each faction on graphs and popularity charts. Color-Coded for Your Convenience: You and each of your rivals are assigned a color.But Thou Must!: No matter how much you don't trust Sneersworth, he will always succeed in his sabotage attempts no matter what you tell him to do, and will act like you agreed anyway.

Brutish Bulls: One of your rivals is a mob of bulls in leisure suits known as the Mad Cows.Purchase supplies and upgrades, create potions that will counter the curses, and sell them profitably while working to put competitors out of business.ĭeveloped by Pogo and published with Electronic Arts, it can be found on Big Fish Games here. The player needs to establish branches of the potion shop in the villages throughout the realm, and monitor the daily forecast to determine which curses are going to affect the area. The game is an exercise in time and resource management.

You play as the Fairy Godmother's new assistant, trying to help her reclaim her potion-making empire after getting stretched too thin has nearly brought it to ruin. Fairy Godmother Tycoon is a tycoon-style video game, set in the fairy tale-land of Onceuponia, with a twist a la The Mafia.
