Blessed Harvest App. Sep 22, 2015. Available instantly on compatible devices. FarmVille: Tropic Escape - Harvest in Paradise. Dec 14, 2016. 4.1 out of 5 stars 988. Available instantly on compatible devices. Pocket Harvest. May 26, 2014. 4.0 out of 5 stars 8.

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This week we go offline, harvest some crops, and burn the lot.

Flyne

If Flyne has a familiar aesthetic, that's because it comes from the developer of the now exiled Twitter client Falcon Pro. Flyne is an offline reader (pronounced like the second half of the word offline) that comes with an assortment of basic feeds, but also plugs into your Feedly and Twitter account to aggregate content. It's free to download and try out, but you have to pay up to get the third-party services.

When you open Flyne, you can choose categories from the pre-loaded feeds to pull into the app. There are also options for Twitter and Feedly access. If you want Twitter, that's a $1.99 in-app purchase. Feedly? That's only $0.99. Some people are complaining about this, but I really don't understand the anger. This app could cost $3 up-front like Falcon Pro did, or it could have a single pro unlock for $3, but the two IAPs are simply a better option, THis way you can try the app, then choose what functionality you want.

The app's interface is very minimal -- it's all about the content. There is a hamburger navigation panel on the left that selects the set of articles you're going to get. Like other readers, you can see everything in one long list, or dig down to see just your Twitter feed or a single sub-group in Feedly. In fact, you can choose to only sync parts of your Feedly list in Flyne.

Moving between articles is accomplished with a simple swipe. Each article is loaded in full screen mode with all the irrelevant content stripped out -- you just have the words and images. The transition between stories is incredibly smooth and the formatting is perfect on almost every page I've seen. You can also skip through posts more quickly by opening a scrollable story list on the right with an edge-gesture. This also gives you an option to mark all stories read in the current stream.

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The offline component of Flyne will refresh in the background to cache stories for offline viewing. Stories that aren't fed into RSS as full text can be manually loaded when you view them. At that point, the app asks if you would like them automatically cached for offline viewing. Otherwise, you only get the snippet offline. This helps conserve the app's cache space, which you can adjust in the settings.

Flyne might not be efficient if you have a huge number of feeds, but it's a great overall reader. It's definitely worth trying the free feeds to see how you like it.

Pocket Harvest

How's your schedule looking for the next few days? Busy? Clear it. There's a new Kairosoft game, and that means your time will be monopolized. Well, unless you can resist the allure of the newest pixel art world-builder. Kairosoft has happened upon an addictive formula, and they're sticking to it with Pocket Harvest.

Roach heavenly sword. They see Shen getting dragged to a cage and that Bohan lied to them about Shen and their people.In the fortress, they find and rescue Takashi and the other clan members. They told Shen about their brother and that he is the chosen one. They learn that Kyo, the person who bullies the sisters, rode to Bohan's army after the sisters left but dies fighting them. From deduction, they find out that the king Loki is trying to work for is none other than Bohan and the fortress in the northeast is Bohan's as well.

Kairosoft basically has two general approaches to mobile experiences. There are games where you design and manage things, like race cars and soccer teams. The second is a game where you design and manage places, like medieval towns, malls, and robotic spaceships. Pocket Harvest is of the second type -- in this game you have to create a profitable farm that can support the local community, attract tourists, and win all the awards at local events. If that sounds a little dull, you don't know Kairosoft.

You start out with just a few employees and limited fields of crops. It's slow going at first to tend the crops and sell them for cash, but you'll manage. Slowly but surely, the game unlocks more facilities, seeds, and items to help you along. Pocket Harvest employs a system of limited structures and crops to control your progress. As you run out of seeds, you must research crop expansions, and you can only house a limited number of employees.

Then there are the challenges, which often force you to focus on producing a particular crop in a specific area. Most challenges pop up when you acquire new plots of land to expand your farming empire. For example, the local deli needs potatoes to perfect a new recipe, and you only have three months to produce a certain number of units. Challenges like this keep the ongoing simulation a bit more varied. Of course, so do the natural disasters. You never know when a storm is going to blow in and obliterate your crops.

It's a little hard to sort out all the rules about which crops can grow in which season and how to manage water levels, but you've got a good buffer of starting cash to get the hang of things. The game mechanic of building greenhouses to allow plants to grow in the winter is especially cool as it forces you to carefully consider the layout of your farms.

The graphics at work in Pocket Harvest are pure Kairosoft in every way. It's unapologetically retro with the 8-bit vibe, but the animations are a little smothered out -- it doesn't look like a truly old game. I do wish the developer would do something different with the graphics, but there's nothing really wrong with Pocket Harvest -- we've just seen it before.

Like all the past Kairosoft games, this one is deviously addictive. If you give it a shot, you'll probably end up playing it for a few hours in the first sitting. It is also a straight-up purchase, $4.99 for the full game and no in-app purchases.

Burn the Lot

Killer clowns from outer space. That's pretty much the theme we're working with in Burn the Lot, which is new to Android. You're taking on the role of the law man on three tiny planetoids that have become infested with scheming carnies. They're up to no good, and it's your job to stop them.

This game is more or less a third-person shooter, but it has an almost shooting gallery vibe at times. As you walk around with the thumbstick on the left, you get a wider view of the tiny planet. You can turn left and right by swiping on the other side of the screen. When the time comes to fight, the camera sinks down to hover right behind you. Then you just sweep back and forth to take out all the targets that come over the horizon. You can also move around a bit while doing this, but you're mainly in 'shooting stuff' mode.

The levels all take place on the same tiny planets, which is a fun look. You can see structures far off peak over the horizon as you approach, and the path of your bullets actually follows the curve of the surface. Movement will feel a bit strange at first -- everything's a little loose. I assume it's supposed to simulate a low gravity environment, seeing as the game takes place on a very small planet.

There are 30 levels across three different worlds, each overflowing with carnies and clowns with weapons. There is main objective in each level, but also a few bonus objectives that can get you additional rewards. Playing the game will help you accumulate cash that can be used to get better weapons. The pistol you start out with is okay, but the flamethrower is much more okay.

The visuals in Burn the Lot are overall very good, but there are a few flaws that may or may not bother you. The overall style is cool, and the character models are interesting. Most of the textures look fine from a distance, but if you get too close to something, it can get a bit muddy. The twangy soundtrack makes up for that a little, though.

Burn the Lot is only $0.99 right now.