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The franchise has lost none of its charm with third installment 'Girl Power'. Very simlar to the previous 2 games but with a little extra added in, if your looking for just a casual game to pass the time before you have to do chores around the house then look no further. Great achievements, no bugs and easy 100%.

So, we are already at the third game in the series, huh? 12 Labours of Hercules III: Girl Power is simply more of the time management goodness, with a slight change in narrative: this time, Hercules is abducted, and his brave wife Megara needs to save him! Ready for going through a series of automated actions to reach certain conditions in a time limit? Because that's it for this game: simple and mindless fun, which allows you to not think for a while.

Let's see... Being the brave hero he is, Hercules is fighting against Scylla this time, yet gets ambushed by Charybdis - and gets abducted at the middle of the battle, alongside his faithful companion (!) Cerberus. So, it's Megara's time to play heroics and save her husband. Boy, these series both make me smile and cringe at the same time. I smile, 'cause I like the game mechanics, yet the literature nerd within me wails for the extent of simplification of mythological characters to make a kid friendly game narrative out of it. I'd kinda prefer seeing a violent and authentic version of these series. Maybe I'm simply getting bored at this point, considering this is the same game for the third time.

As the gem of Jetdog Studios' catalogue, not much changed since previous game. 'cause if it works, don't fix it, right? Same mechanics go for this game, alongside Megara's newly found power to raise shrubs to collect food. Collecting resources, building roads and shrines, reaching goals in a timely manner again; alongside some bonus episodes, if you've played the small HOG sequence within each level. Environment design starts to get a bit diverse in this one, considering some parts have underwater and volcanic maps. Oh, and our villain for this chapter is Zeus, yet it eludes me why the father god would like to cause a problem for his beloved son, especially using amazons to do his bidding. Amazons were daughters of Ares, the last time I've checked?

Yup, that's basically it. If you ask me, the nameless servant of Hercules is the actual hero in these series, since he and his brothers are the ones who go through all the hard work. Megara waters some plants, and Hercules throws some rocks. Brilliant. Do I recommend? Well, if you've enjoyed previous games... you know the drill. Just enjoy!

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12 Labours of Hercules II: Girl Power is a cheap, entertaining casual game. If you have 5-10 minutes only you can always go for a level and finish it. Its not hard, not require special focus or following specific strategies, you will likely finish all levels easily just by playing it and having a common sense.

In the game you need progress through levels. The road usually blocked by obstacles and their removal required. Removing these obstacles usually costs you food, wood or other resources. To get these resources you need the help of your friends, whose collecting these items or building farms, mines or other buildings. As you progress in the game you will unlock other, mythological helpers whose will aid you in your journey by killing other mythological enemies like minotaurs.

Dont wait any longer! Help Megara to free Hercules and then aid him in his revenge!

The game is on sale quite many times each year, but the full price also worth the 6-8 hours gameplay this game offer.

As your Average Achievement Hunter ill write some infos about achievements aswell:
This game has 22. While you will get almost all achievements just by finishg the game some require additonal tasks. Each level has a hidden puzzle piece what you need loot up. There are one "harder" achievement in the game, which require to beat developer time on 10 different maps. Its not that bad as it sounds, there are quite few level where the developers time easily beatable. Levels replayable, so even if you miss out something, it could be easily acquired. Easy perfect game in 6-8hours max.

This is the 3rd in the series on Steam and the most difficult. Despite an 85% positive rating (August 2015) there are many negative reviews which seem to rank unusually high. Their central complaint is that the game is too easy with little or no need to strategize. Either these space cadets are playing on casual (most have 4 or fewer achievements) or they are messing with Flakka and what was left of their minds is now gone.

Just by watching the trailers you will know if this is a game you will like. There are no surprises - what you see is what you get. The challenge and sole purpose of these games are to get 100% achievements and to beat the developers' scores.

If you liked either of the previous games you will like this but note that the difficulty level of "Expert" has been ramped up a bit.

12 Labours of Hercules is an very easy, strategic path clearing, time managing, puzzle, clicker game that reminds me of games you normally play on your mobile.
I'ts simple, fun to play and addictive to achieve an perfect score.

My personal issue with the previous 12 Labours of Hercules was, that i thought it was too easy and didn't have much of a challenge.
Well, This one sure was a challenge, It was a great timekiller and i enjoyed it a lot.
I'm not just saying that because it's called "Girl Power" lol :p
There are 3 variable difficulty options and i played the game on hard mode.
It really was a challenge and i had to do some levels over and over again to achieve the perfect score.

I have played the previous 12 Labours of Hercules games too.
The game play is exactly the same. And in all honesty if you have played 1 of the games, you have played them all.
With every game the graphics get better, with slightly more variation between the levels, more mini games and extra bonus levels.
So far out of all the 12 Labours of Hercules games that i have played this one was my favorite.

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I won a copy of this title from a giveaway, not really wanting to pay for a copy when there's so many of them. It could be interesting, but it might just be an asset swap series. Having spent some time on 12 Labours of Hercules III (LH3), I don't intend on getting any more of them. In theory, I figured this would be a casual title I could relax with and somewhat go into auto-pilot. However, if you want to earn all the achievements, you'd have to put in much more effort than I'd like.


I'm not sure if there's a precise name for this style of game, but LH3 has you manage resources, while clearing branching pathways with auto-workers. Your aim is to send workers across the map, accumulating renewable resources. These are used to clear barriers, and complete tasks such as chopping fallen trees, or busting up boulders, which often generates another type of resource. As you progress on the map, you keep accessing new barriers and resources, having to manage them efficiently in order to clear it quickly. However, aside from assigning your workers where to go and in what order, you have almost no input on their production. At most, you can trigger a temporary power-up, such as faster workers.

Gameplay like this is quite repetitive, but when balanced right, can be somewhat relaxing with its simplicity. You sit back and watch people do the work for you, while juggling objectives and resources. However, unless you ignore the timer, you have to be very diligent, and choose optimal routing, in order to clear levels as fast as the game expects. This doesn't lead to the laid-back feel I was hoping for from this kind of title.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2115158323
There's no controller support for the game, which would be inefficient for how it works. Instead, you use the mouse to select where you want your workers to go. You're able to create a backlog of three items, and can cancel those orders by clicking on the same object again. I didn't have any problems with lag or unresponsiveness.


As the title suggests, the general idea of this series is to assist Hercules complete his 12 heroic tasks. Hercules doesn't do everything himself though, as most of the labor is done by menial laborers. I find this at odds with him completing heroic deeds, as much of the gameplay revolves around hiring servants to do grunt work. At some point, he'll jump in during a stage to throw his muscle around, but with such passive gameplay, it hardly feels like a moment of action or interest. He's just doing another type of labor, and all I did was click on the screen. From my perspective, the choice of Hercules was based more on churning out the same game numerous times, instead of following his heroic epic with compelling action.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2115159540
The game is pulled back so that you can see everything on the screen at once, which makes the different buildings and objects look small. However, everything is visible and easy to identify, though it does get busy with all the items to address on the pathways. Though on the simple side, I would say there's nothing wrong with how the game looks. It's colorful and vibrant enough to enjoy.


Annoyingly enough, LH3 has many sound effects that trigger from your servants interacting with objects, and your pre-set orders being activated. It winds up making the game very loud, and though these noises have a purpose, letting you know when something is finished, it's a bit grating. The music that plays is pleasant enough, but overall the game would be improved if the sound effects were toned down.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2115158970
🌟 If you enjoy how LH3 plays, there's more than enough content to hold your interest, between 40 stages here, and the six other games. 


❌ In order to get the highest score possible, which is necessary for the overlord achievement, not only do you need to play the stage in an optimal way, you also have to click on as many birds as you can. Doing so nets more points, but it's such an annoying thing to have to do. I'm already doing busy work with the nature of the game, and this makes it worse.
❌ I find that LH3 hits an unpleasant middle area, where it's so demanding I have to really pay attention to it, yet is so uninteresting that I'm bored doing so. I'll admit this might apply specifically to me, but I wasn't able to maintain my interest.
❌ The voice-acted lines in the cutscenes are horrendous.


🔍 Taking some time at the start of a stage to look over obstacles and objectives instead of immediately diving in will let you work out possible choke points, or things you'll want to address first. A pathway leading to another worker would take priority over one that leads to a resource you already have. It'll require restarting quickly afterwards, but it's worth the intel.
🔍 If you aren't bothering with the achievements, then you can play casual mode, simply striving to beat the stage at your own pace.


One benefit from reviewing a game partway into the series is that any rough spots should have been buffed out, after taking played feedback and adjusting the mechanics. Bearing this in mind,
the issues I had with this title would likely apply to the entire series, instead of being an anomaly. My biggest complaint about LH3 is that it should be something to mindlessly play while chilling. However, the developers wanted people to try-hard in order to unlock these achievements, because their game is only for the elite, or whatever. Compared to similar games, I just found this version annoying, and wouldn't recommend it.

This game boils down to clicking lots of things as fast as possible. There's little need to strategize, just click anything that's green. Once in a while you'll click your power ups, but that's about it. It sits in a space between a pure clicker game and a casual time management game and unfortunately ends up doing neither in a way that satisfied me. Here's the thing though... certain people really seem to like it and there's a demo, so check it out for yourself or watch my playthrough. I also have a breakdown of pros and cons below the video.

https://youtu.be/4ywThSTeYtA

From the perspective of a clicker game:
+ It's more than just "click this one thing"... it's has an interesting (perhaps even novel) mechanic (watch a couple minutes of the video to see it in action)
+ The price is right. It's a mobile port for sure, but at least it has a mobile price.
- In a pure clicker the fun is in optimizing to get maximum clickage... there's no optimization that resonated with me. Any optimization in what I clicked felt wholly unimportant.
- No purchasable upgrades... it's nice to get something for the grind other than three stars.

From the perspective of a time management game:
+ no pros
- No need for strategy, mastery, or optimization... it's just too shallow to even qualify as a proper time management game, IMO.

The third entry in this time-management series. It gets tedious, but that should be expected if you are looking at this game in any detail. Designed for (and probably easier to play on) a touchscreen, I can only recommend this if you really like this genre with a keyboard and mouse.

For once it's Hercules managed to get in trouble and captured twice, you need another hero... his dear and tender Megara! Roles are reversed! So instead of having a Hercules that does nothing, here's come Megara... that isn't more active than him. But she's more useful than him: she can grow plants that will give you food.

Indeed, as for the previous games, you sent your servants for resources gathering (gold, food, wood) in order to build or to expand houses, workshops, farms or gold mines that are periodically giving you... resources. But beware of the thieves that will take them if you're not fast enough! As usual, you have bonuses for stopping time, making the servants (or resources) work/walk faster, making more resources, etc... Nothing really changed from the previous games. Even Cerberus, Medusa or Pegasus are still present. There is however a new character, Charon, that can bring resources that are floating for one piece of gold.

So without real innovation, how come this game isn't boring? Because there is a challenge of beating high scores, because you want to see how the story finishes. That's the main reasons, for me at least. Indeed, the casual difficulty removes the timer and the Olympic time, so you have all the time in the world to finish the level. The normal difficulty has the timer while the higher difficulty has less time (and more points). Besides, you can unlock bonus levels by finding pieces of puzzles and reconstitue them.

Graphics are like the previous game, very colorful and nice for a casual game. The soundtrack is still the same.

If you liked the two previous games, you'll like this one. You'll like also the fact that Hercules is the one to be saved now and that thanks to Megara, you'll have food quite early in the game that will appear periodically. The challenge is still present, so, yeah, you can go ahead, the price isn't too high, you have trading cards, achievements...