Hamster Habitat (A Free Puzzle Game for Kindle)

by Amazon Digital Services

Product Description

Hamster Habitat is an engaging path-building puzzle game.

Can you bring all your hamsters together?

In Hamster Habitat, your goal is to connect all of the pieces in the hamster cage using a limited supply of hamster tubes. You'll need to work around obstacles and plan carefully to solve puzzles of three different difficulty levels. For bonus points, find the path that not only unites the hamsters but rewards them with up to three treats!

Hamster Habitat gives you more than 50 puzzles to solve in any order, and includes a full tutorial, an infinite undo feature to make it easy to change your mind, and a Show Solution feature for those puzzles you just can't figure out. Hamster Habitat is fun for puzzle lovers of all ages.

Product Details

• Version: 1.0
• Release Date: January 16, 2012
• File Size: 713 kB
• Language: English
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• ASIN: B006YUTO70
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher License: Read
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (391 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

95 of 102 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Twist on Pipes January 17, 2012

By keyfox11

This is a lot like the classic "Pipes" game where you try to build a pipe network connecting the water supply with the drain...

...With a twist. In Hamster Habitat there is no time limit as there is in pipes. You have all the time you need to unravel the puzzle. Instead you are connecting little hamster houses while trying to run your hamster tubes over treats for the hamsters. The more treats you can get the better your score will be.

While you are playing you must keep track of how many habitat pieces you have left. At the begining of a level you might have say, 3 horizontal pieces, 3 vertical pieces and several corner pieces from which you must build your habitat. keeping track of these can sometimes be a headache.

There are plenty of levels to keep you busy and more than a few that will stump all puzzlers. Levels are layed out in a menu like Grid Detective with Easy, Medium and Hard catagories.

I rated this 4 stars because it seemed geared toward younger children (at least the easier levels or unless you LOVE hamsters... :) But then again, who can go wrong for free???

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A well designed, fun game for the Kindle January 23, 2012

By J. Chambers TOP 50 REVIEWER

Amazon Verified Purchase

Having raised hamsters as a kid, I couldn't resist trying "Hamster Habitat." It's very similar to the iOS game of Aqueduct, except instead of water flowing through pipes, it's hamsters running around between their cages and collecting snacks. I played Hamster Habitat on my Kindle 3 (now called the Kindle Keyboard) - I can't vouch for how well it will run on the newer touchscreen Kindles, although Amazon shows that it will run okay.

The concept of Hamster Habitat is pretty simple: Using a limited supply of straight and curved tubing, connect the hamster cages to create a habitat. To keep your hamsters well fed and happy, make sure you collect the hamster treats scattered around the playing area.

The game includes a very good tutorial, and when you're ready to play, there are nine sample habitat puzzles to practice with before moving on to the main game, which includes three difficulty levels, each with nineteen screens to solve. The puzzles will give just about anyone a nice challenge, even at the easy level.

Game play itself is simple after you've practiced on a few introductory sample screens. There are some nice touches like an Undo key, and if you really get frustrated, you can restart the screen. And--bless the developers--you can view the solution to each puzzle.

Overall, Hamster Habitat is a fine example of what can be done with an e-ink Kindle as a game platform.

33 of 38 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Path-based puzzle game. January 18, 2012

By Ed Pegg TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Amazon Verified Purchase

In each puzzle, you'll need to connect hamsters to various treats, using a limited number of various pipes and tubes. The problems are more difficult than I thought they would be, especially at the higher levels.

Games like Tantrix or Tayu, and puzzles like Blossom (on Kindle) also use the mechanic of making connections with limited path pieces. The implementation here is quite good.

Recommended.