Although Facebook is overflowing with various themes of management genre, like city-building games or decoration games, some new games still emerge to constantly bring forth fresh ideas for the brand new game experience, among which Inheritance is a new title co-developed by Fusion Creative Studios and BigVoice Unlimited. Unlike other social games on Facebook, Inheritance offers players the unique gameplay combining the decoration theme with a story-telling mode.
In Inheritance, you have inherited the estate of an old mansion full of dirty items, broken furniture and even secret antiques from Aunt Genevieve. It is your duty to restore the rooms which are falling apart at the moment. In the process of room renovation, you are sure to be fascinated with the constant discoveries of Aunt G’s mystery. The game tries to bring an adventure mixing the element of room design with the story-telling social game. It is really interesting to explore the mystery of Aunt G and redesign the rooms to their glory.
When you use the rusted key to enter into the first bedroom of Maid’s Quarters in the beginning, it is absolutely in a fearful mess full of broken furniture, dirty floor and metal rust. The graphics in Inheritance show off a realistic style with 3D animation. You are able to rotate the view to have a panoptic look at the room. When you click a specific item, you learn detailed information about it at the left bar, like how to restore it or how much it costs. Hence, you have to clean and repair the items with the help of certain cleaners and repair kits on hand.
It takes time to automatically do the jobs. When you are about to begin the work, it shows you the time to spend, experience to gain and energy to cost. By cleaning and repairing the items, you gain experience and level up so that you can enter more rooms to explore the mansion. At a time, you can both clean up three items and repair one item. Therefore, assigning the jobs reasonably is also a task.
Moreover, energy is another important element in the game, which enables to do the cleaning and repairing. If you lack the energy points, you are not allowed to do more jobs and have to eat different food to refill your energy. The realistic style lies not only in its graphic, but also in the every aspect, like eating. When it is breakfast time, you can only drag breakfast meals from your inventory to refill your energy. However, if you want to eat the meals again, you have to wait to digest your previous meal.
After you have cleaned up all the mess, your room value increases then. In this way, your mission is clear. If your cleaning and utility closets are out of stock, just go to various stores to replenish your closets with new supplies. If you are worried about your money, Aunt G has already left some valuables hidden throughout the mansion which will be explored by you during playing the game.
The first valuable you find is a jewelry box along with its story of "G". In fact, the story-telling mode makes the game more interesting and playable. When cleaning up the room, you may find some news clippings, journal entries or keepsakes which gradually reveal the past story of Aunt G in the old mansion. It is just like you were a kid finding the hidden mystery in an old house. I think you are sure to be curious about the story of Aunt G as well as the old mansion, either romance or tragedy, just like me.
Before going to the stores, you need to do some laundry or take a shower because of your smelly clothes and rejection by stores. At the same time, the items you have restored have their own costs, and you can sell them for some money. It is time to customize the rooms with new furniture and electrical appliance. You can purchase a variety of things from the stores, and then use your creativity to design the rooms. With your unique design, the old mansion will surely restore its vitality and glory. In the end, it will become a valuable itself.
Inheritance is now in the development phase of beta stage. Hence, the game steps seems inconvenient as well as the social element only supports to visit friends’ home with no extra functions. Anyway, it rather appeals due to its all-new game mode.
