Category Archives: Gaming

Mobile Games primarily, but some PC games may be shown.

Swagbucks: Kingdoms of HeckFire

Kingdoms of Heckfire is being offered on Swagbucks for a 4,000 SB reward. The offer was in my Inbox but I also see it in the Search option. Offer terms are to reach Castle level 15, with no time limit listed on the offer.



The game includes 3 Resource types: Gold, Food, and Ore. Gems are a Premium currency for Shop transactions and speeding through timers.

There are ample resources available up through Castle Level 10 from the starting missions and Daily events.

The game also gives you lots of Gems, so you won’t necessarily need to go out and Gather resources from the nodes on the map.

The main issue I found with completing this offer is that they don’t give you a free Extra builder like in other games of the genre. You could buy one in the shop for $10, but that seems expensive to me.

You can research “Free Speedup” timer increases and “Help” timer benefits from Clan mates to speed up the constructions. I think I was getting 2.1 minutes off per help received and my Embassy allowed 14 hits, so I was getting close to a half-hour off.

Most of the low-level buildings and research only needed 20 minutes so that was fine.

The game utilizes 3 Biomes (Grasslands, Badlands, and Swamp) that include a specific monster and generic resource Nodes. You will have multiple Dragons that each specialize in a different form of combat and specific Biomes.

In order to Gather resources from Nodes higher than level 1 you will need to do Research. The same applies to attacking Goblins, Skeletons, Treants, and Titans.

The game includes an Ally Hiring system that can be used to buff your combat abilities in certain Biomes. You can earn Gold by hiring an ally and then reselling them at a small profit.

This is all done automatically, so it is hands-free for the most part, you just need to do the initial hiring. A downside to this though is that when an ally is hired away you lose the bonus you were getting.

Ideally, you hire an active player who powers up to the point where no one can afford to buy them off of you. You will then get the full stat boost without fear of loss.

You can always Drop an ally to get back a fraction of your payment price if you really need the Gold.

The Castle construction time started to get fairly long at level 13. The time to upgrade extended to over 1 day, the prerequisite buildings also took 9+ hours and I had to do them 1 at a time without a 2nd builder slot.

The Starter Shield on the town lasts for a week and stays up even after upgrading past level 10, unlike other games like this.

I played the game during a Halloween event and so got many freebies and themed gifts. Perhaps they will have an event going on when you play.

I didn’t see anywhere to enter Codes in the settings and there didn’t seem to be any giveaways on their Facebook (Meta) page.

There were some frequent bugs and I did get consolation mail in the game with free Gems more than once.

I have written new user guides for Swagbucks and MyPoints; either one is a great option. These sites are a great source of extra income for spontaneous purchases. Alternatively there is FreeCash and InboxDollars, both also good services.

FreeCash: The Grand Mafia

Offer: Multiple Objectives to collect 10 Enforcers and upgrade them to higher Color tiers.

You need 5 Greens, 10 Blues, and 2 Golds.

The Upgrades go Gray>Green>Blue>Purple>Gold.

The Grand Mafia

The offer on FreeCash rewards 142,494 Coins. 3 objectives require purchases which I will skip in this guide. The total reward without the spending comes to 117,142 Coins or USD 117.

There is no posted time limit, however, generally, you can expect 30 days allowance for most offer walls unless otherwise noted…

The terms for this offer are quite good and will not require you to grind very much or collect obscene amounts of resources.

The Lootably offer wall can be commonly found on the FreeCash platform. Other permutations of the Grand Mafia offer are available on RevU, AdGem, and Offertoro.

Check the Grand Mafia Wiki for building upgrade requirements.


You will start with a single Enforcer (Hero/General) Mike Reynolds.

During the tutorial you will receive Belladonna and the Questline will reward you with some additional Enforcers (Doxxy, Vinny).

The Daily Login will get you Sparrow and the Campaign (Monument) will get you BigShot and Tony.

That makes 7 Enforcers with 2 (optional) ones available through your First Purchase which gets you Killer Queen and Onryo.

Free Enforcers

You’ll need 10 Enforcers total to complete the offer. Additional Enforcers can be acquired through the Campaign, Events, and Chapter Objectives.

The rest is simple. You can get the fragments to upgrade your Enforcers by completing “Sweeps” of the Campaign on Elite mode which is unlocked after clearing the first page.

You get a certain amount of Stamina each day and you can only Sweep a set number of times on each stage every day.

There are 5 blocks to each Tier (Plain 1-5), It will take 4 fragments for each block upgrade.

So 20 fragments total to move from Gray to Green.

On the Green tier, the cost goes up to 10 fragments per block, so then you will need 50 fragments.

Game Guide: Game of Khans

Game of Khans follows the same format as Kings Throne: Game of Conquest, with a top-down viewpoint, and all of the GUI elements are roughly in the same place.

Main screen

You’ve got 3 resources: Silver, Food, Soldiers, and your premium currency, Diamonds.

Silver gets used to level up your Advisors, Food is used to level up your villages on the World Map, and lastly, Soldiers get used to challenge the Campaign, which takes place on World Travel, and proceed through missions.

Completing missions also earns you Hay, which is used to visit by caravan the various Cultural centers on the map.

Harem

Harem: You will get your first wife by choosing at the start between 2 women. The other one will be rescued and later join the Harem as well.

Additional lovers are added at set Power levels, by visiting cultural centers on World Travel, and by increasing your VIP rank through in-game Purchases.

a harem bride in a mini dress and black stockings
Game of Khans Juri

When visiting towns, there is a chance of an Encounter in which you will get to choose which of the available women you want to increase Favor with.

Once you have reached a threshold for the particular girl, they will marry you and join the Harem.

Courtyard: Unlike others of the genre in Game of Khans, your Harem members have missions of their own to complete, and they will earn experience points and increase in level over time.

Each maiden has her own specialty that gives them an edge in completing Courtyard quests.

Also at the Courtyard, there are Mini-Fights between the Harem members, which give you a chance to improve your favor with them depending on your decisions.

Advisors: These are acquired at the Proving Grounds, and they act as your General/Knight when taking part in PvP, PvE, and Hunting Events.

You will get 1 free summon each day and can collect tokens to do bulk summons.

There are different tiers of Advisors, which can have much better stats the higher the quality. The first Gold Advisor you get will be Khuba.

When you get a duplicate draw on the summon, you will then get tokens that can be used to increase the Star level of the corresponding Advisor.

Alternatively, you can swap the tokens for a generic token that can be used on a higher-tier Advisor.

Heirs: After visiting your Harem, there is a chance of an Heir being born.

You can interact with your children and give them things like milk, toys, or a bath. You can determine which option they want by their speech bubble content.

When they have fully grown up, you can arrange marriages for them with your Friends, Horde, or broadcast on the server chat.

Another option is to allow them to seek their own spouse. This option is nice if you are a more casual player. Couples will sometimes give you a gift.

Throne: Here you can handle Decrees. Warriors, Villagers, and Chiefs. You will be given a dilemma and be tasked with solving the issue without overly favoring one party.

The best reward comes from equally appealing to each group through multiple questions.

Feast: The Feast option is standard among games of this type. You will be able to invite other players to your feast and get points for being the host.

Otherwise, you will join other players ‘ feasts and get a smaller return. The feast store has many good discounted rewards to choose from.

Marriage items are easily acquired here.

Outskirts: At the Outskirts, you can explore set locations for Wild Animals to capture.

These will be added to your Pet Pen. Sometimes you will get food to feed to the Pets to level them up.

At certain periods of the day, there will be rare animals available, so it is best to save your explorer points for these times.

Arena: In the Arena, you can set your Advisors to challenge other players in PvP combat.

Potions can be brewed to provide buffs to your Advisors for the battles. The potions can be upgraded as well and will be available for use for the Season.

The higher you rank, the better the rewards.

Shaman Cave: Each day you log in, you will get a reward from the Shaman Cave.

At 7 days, you get a big chest of rewards.

The daily rewards are random and taken from a list of items shown at the bottom of the screen, and it does include Diamonds as a possible reward.

Hunting Grounds: During set times each day, you can take part in the Hunt. A mini-game where you try to shoot a fleeing game animal like a boar.

Accuracy will help you do more damage. Aiming for the head, you can get a critical hit. Your Advisors will take turns shooting.

If you fail to kill an animal on the first hit, the game will speed up, making it a bit more difficult to complete.

Beast Challenge: At set times of the day, you can take part in the Beast Challenge and attack the monster.

This is a server-wide event, and you will compete with others to get the final blow and also to do the most damage.

Getting the killing blow will earn you tokens to summon a powerful Advisor.

Pet Pen: Your animals that were captured in the Outskirts are available here as Pets.

You can feed them to increase their levels. Additional pets can be set to Alpha/Beta to improve the effectiveness of the bonuses.

Each pet represents a Totem, which can be placed at the Village to get a major boost to production.

Hunting

Horde: As with other games, you can join or create a Guild/Alliance to play with others.

This helps with ranking in the Events as long as your members are active. There are group missions that can be completed together and mini activities.

The Horde Store will be an extra supply of Resources such as Silver and Soldiers, and the available amount increases as the Horde ranks up.

Barracks: The main way to get your Advisor‘s skill ranked up is to send them to the Barracks.

You can set an Advisor to train for 3 hours. Diamonds can be paid to increase the number of available training slots at the Barracks.

Sometimes you will get lucky and get a Triple point reward when completing the training for a particular Advisor.

World Travel: The Hay you earn on the Campaign map gets used to take part in World Travel.

You go around to random towns on the map, which are cultural centers. Various events will occur, and occasionally you may get a chance to impress a maiden.

You may save them from a bandit or offer flowers to the girl you like. Filling their gauges will earn you that girl, and she will marry you and join the Harem.

An enjoyable play experience if you have the time. I greatly suggest it.