At the end of each day, you’ll have the chance to sell different combinations of colored jewels for profit. In a single day, your dragons will grow, eat and produce jewels. For an extra challenge, the game sets a time limit to obtain the artifact and achieve “expert” status, usually 20 days. You’ll receive a different artifact in each chapter. The goal is to complete a series of objectives-collect 15 of a certain color jewel, for example-in order to unlock magical artifacts that will combat a wicked witch. And, plus, y’know, they won’t starve to death. You’ll have to feed the scaly buggers a nice hock of meat every so often, and in return, they’ll squirt out shiny, money-catching precious stones. You’ll play four chapters, with each providing you different types of baby dragons to rear. In Dragon Keeper, gameplay is similar Insane Aquarium: Manage various creatures, feeding them occasionally (thus leveling them up into adults who yield more valuable rewards), add helpers that provide various special skills, and ward off disruptive enemies. If the latter is more your bag, put your virtual pet ownership to use in the strategy-sim Dragon Keeper.
Others, however, prefer their very own cave full of three species of jewel-laying dragons, imp construction workers and human-pummeling trolls.
When it comes to pets, some people might opt for a couple goldfish in a tank, perhaps with an accompanying snail and plastic palm tree. Care for dragons, collect jewels, uncover treasure and battle a wicked witch in this strategy-sim.