When I started playing Dragonester I thought it was another poor game that has nothing to do with reliability. But the longer I played, the more the game enchanted me. The graphics are OK, but the gameplay does not change the fact that the game sucks. Production is on a high level, merit rating.

This is a single player game so you only compete against yourself and others who use your computer. You don’t earn any money on the ranked challenges.

Graphically this game is a bit dated. It runs at a fixed resolution, 1024x768. If you have a wide screen monitor, the graphics will be stretched a bit. The 2D backgrounds and sprites bring back Super Nintendo memories. There are two main views in the game. You have the town overview and the playing level. Although the graphics are dated they do the job just fine. I just wish I could run it at a higher resolution.

The background music is nice but a bit repetitive and the sound effects for the various guns are nice.

The controls are all mouse driven. You have to drag and drop the nests, eggs and jewels where you want them. The scroll wheel is used to change gun types and the right mouse button is used for reloading. The controls aren\'t that good though - sometimes it takes a few clicks to actually trigger the reload process, for instance.

With a price point of $9.95 or less there’s a lot of fun to be had here. It\'s a nice little game with plenty of replay value. You can replay the main levels to try to get higher scores, or try to complete all of the fortress challenges or play all of the ranked challenges. If you can multitask and enjoy puzzle games, check out Dragonester.

One of the most unique and enjoyable games here in GamersGate.

I can only compare it to Farm Frenzy but this isn't just a copy cat title. There is enough to distinguish the game from Frenzy to make it a worthwhile purchase even if you've played the former.

Like Frenzy the game takes place on one static screen where in you race around with your mouse making sure that everything is kept up and running.

Rearranging nests so that dragons of the same color are kept in rows, turning dragon produced eggs into larger eggs for profit, repairing nests that start to break, and sending your sale cart full of goods to the shop are a few of the tasks that you will find yourself quickly and frantically multi-tasking all at once.

Along with keeping up operations there are monsters that begin to invade the scene every once in awhile and a click on your mouse wheel button turns your cursor into a cross hair so that you can gun them down before they do much harm.

There are twenty default levels and I'm on level ten. There is a main home screen where you can upgrade the levels of building upgrades available during gameplay. There is a center statue in the home screen that can access mini games that can be challenged to leaderboards (more on this in a minute) and also a mission center that sends you into multiple challenges for extra bling.

Also considering that you might want to replay the twenty stages over until you've got gold for all of them really draws out the replay value.

The only problem I have with this game so far (going back to the leaderboards) is that the leaderboards crash the game when accessed. Sometimes you can actually get them to open to the first page of scores and your ranking but browsing proceeding pages in the leaderboard will eventually dump the game to desktop.

I will also say that it looks like plenty of other people are actually playing as the few times that I did successfully manage up a leaderboard recording there were a good number of names and scores on it.

I've given this four out of five stars because everything else works phenomenally well and it's very polished for a small Korean game developer.

If they can patch the leaderboards it deserves a perfect 5 and well worth the ten smackers.

Dragonester seems to be the kind of game designed for professional starcraft players. There is simply so much going on that it requires your full concentration to even finish the missions. There's alot of depth here. You have a main town and can upgrade it to improve your capabilities in-mission. Bears a minor likeness to grimm's hatchery if you've played that one, but alot harder.

You get different weapons you can use in an attack mode you have to switch to manually. You get a pistol, a rifle, a shotgun, machine gun and a cannon. Of course, these are all upgradeable as well. It looks very promising.

Unfortunately, the nests you need to maintain for the dragons seem to self destruct if not constantly fixed, making it very hard to make money. Add to that the hordes of enemies coming at you the entire time everything else is happening and things can quickly devolve into a stalemate between you and mission goals. I made it about a third of the game before realizing how punishing the difficulty is.

60% I can only recommend this to people looking for a game that will seriously challenge them in terms of reflex skills,multitasking ability...and patience.