Brought to you by Big Fish Games, makers of the highly-seen-before Mahjongg Ripoff, Bejeweled Ripoff and Zuma Ripoff…it’s Diner Dash Ripoff.

Mystic Inn does a search and replace on grease and checkerboard tile, putting potions and pointy wizard hats in their place.

I don’t understand why you’d be working in an independent studio if all you’re going to do is schlub work like this, with a tiny budget to boot. Isn’t the point of being an indie that you tradeoff big publisher support and get to work on something personal, something that would have at least a small measure of your own creativity? A tiny sliver, even.

Bad indie, no link. Instead, check out VH1’s game blog (subtitle: “What’s classic, innovative, and new in games.”) which gives this $2-of-derivative-in-a-$20-bag piece of monkey crap an overenthusiastic fluffing (it’s “scary groovy”), complete with a press release copy and paste job and props to their aforementioned Zuma and Bejeweled clones.

Read - Scary Groovy: Mystic Inn [VH1 Game Break]