Overview: T-Day, Turkeys in Time is a very simple arcade-style game, released to meet the needs of players who are too over-stuffed with food to concentrate on more complicated things. For what it’s trying to be, it’s reasonably successful, but don’t go into it expecting a deep game.

The gameplay is very simple. You click and drag to aim your turkey-slingshot and release to fire. The aiming is not too finicky, and the settlers move slowly enough in the first few levels that you can nail them with only a few shots to practice. As you go up in level, the boats become more crowded, requiring more and better-aimed shots to empty, and you unlock various power-ups as well. The power-ups add an element of strategy – do you take out the imminent threat, or aim for the power-up boat in back first? The game successfully becomes challenging without ever really getting complicated.

The best thing about the game is the stylized art – the palette is well-chosen, the parchment effect is neat, and the grinning, evil pilgrims on the Game Over screen are genuinely creepy. For a game that’s a bit of a stunt, the production values are definitely where they need to be to make a good showing. The sound effects are less impressive, but they’re not overly grating – at least, not once you turn the very short music loop off.

There’s no real use of any social hooks in the game – you can publish your scores and invite your friends, but that’s it. There’s no persistence other than your own scores, and the game does not even seem to track those internally. These aren’t exactly flaws, but they don’t give a reason to come back to the game once you’ve mastered the relatively simple gameplay and gotten as far as you want through the finite number of levels. Essentially, this is an iPhone game ported to Facebook, rather than a game designed for Facebook.

T-Day: Turkeys in Time is a cute way to draw some attention to a company that appears to focus on iPhone games. There are ads on the starting screen that are placed in an intrusive way but are a pretty minor irritation overall – the banner ads at the bottom are attractive and harmless. This is clearly a company with some solid art direction if nothing else, and the game itself is, while not an epic for the ages, a perfectly good way to waste ten minutes – if only to see that Game Over screen. *shiver*