Hamster Town - Build Hamster Homes

A game where you deliver candy to adorable hamsters by drawing lines!

Collect stars by finding the best ways to solve puzzles to build and expand your own hamster house, and invite all sorts of animal friends!

■ How to Play

Deliver candy to the hamsters any way you like.

There are hundreds of ways to solve each puzzle. Collect more stars by finding the best way to solve each puzzle. ◝(・ω・)◟

■ Game Features

Though simple and fun to play, this puzzle game isn't short on challenges.

The hamster life: just watching these cute little fluffballs will heal your mind.

Collect stars to expand and decorate your hamster house.

Earn sweet rewards by raising and playing with your hamsters!

※Extreme Cuteness Alert!※

Extreme hamster cuteness may cause some players to experience brain freeze (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑

■ Ads and in-app products in-game.

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Hamster Town Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Solve More Puzzles and Collect All Hamsters

It’s a universally accepted fact that most people find hamsters cute. After all, hamsters are small, round, fuzzy creatures that make adorable pets. Unlike, say, cats or dogs, hamsters can provide companionship to those whose spaces can’t accommodate bigger animals. Because of their charming appearance, it’s also no wonder that hamsters have gained some measure of popularity when it comes to some forms of media like cartoons (Hamtaro, anyone?) or other commercial items like stickers, designs, and, yes, even games.

If you love hamsters or are just generally interested in playing a cute game to chill and pass the time, then Hamster Town is definitely right up your alley!

As you can see from the starting screen alone, you’re going to be treated to an eye-candy of a game that can get you hooked right away. Released by Super Awesome Inc. in October 2019, Hamster Town is a puzzle game that’s also a “hero collector” of sorts. Basically, you get to play puzzles whose main objective is to give candy to a hamster. You can do this by drawing lines and shapes to serve as paths that the candy can roll over to reach the hamster.

As of this writing, there are 36 available chapters that each have 15 stages. You can earn a maximum of 3 stars for each stage (thus bringing the total number of stages to 540, and the total number of stars you can earn to 1,620). You can only unlock the next stage upon completing the previous one. In case you fail to solve the puzzle, you can refresh the stage at no cost or consequence.

As you play through the puzzles, you’ll also be able to collect a variety of hamster friends through a gacha mechanic. You can earn hamsters as random rewards, too, or as rewards for completing certain tasks or an event. You may get 1-star, 2-star or 3-star hamsters depending on your luck, or whether or not you’ve selected the premium gacha or the regular gacha.

When you collect a hamster, you’ll be able to see their accompanying flavor text, which are often funny, quirky, or just heart-meltingly cute. Some hamsters even have costumes, different hairstyles, and might even reference some famous personalities. For instance, Bob (seen on the image below) is clearly an allusion to Bob Ross, an American painter and host of the late ‘80s to early ‘90s television show, The Joy of Painting.

Aside from hamsters, you can also collect “special friends,” which are other cute animals like raccoons, beavers, squirrels, etc. Special friends, like Raccoo from the image below, all have a 3-star rating.

All in all, you can collect 30 1-star hamsters, 30 2-star hamsters, and 45 3-star creatures, 6 of whom are special friends.

But more than just playing the puzzles and collecting animals, Hamster Town also incorporates a very simple home design mechanic where you can unlock and decorate different rooms of a house. Whenever you level up as a player, you’ll be able to unlock more rooms where you can place at least 1 hamster inside, as well as a variety of furniture.

On the side are also some quick mini games where you can interact with your hamsters and earn rewards after.

Though it can seem like there are a lot of things going on in this game, it’s actually rather relaxing and can be a great way to pass the time. The real challenge involves the puzzles—which we’ll be covering in this beginner’s guide for Hamster Town!

As you may have guessed, the puzzles in this game start out easy, but they can really pick your brains down the line. From time to time, you’ll inevitably find yourself in a bit of a pickle, so we’ve prepared this guide to help you solve puzzles and get candies to your hamsters, as well as earn stars, extra rewards, and collect all the hamsters you can without spontaneously combusting from the cuteness overload!

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Finger

We’ve previously mentioned that puzzles in Hamster Town are played by drawing lines to get candies to your hamster. Think of it as something like connecting the dots, but with a twist. Instead of connecting a figure, these lines serve as pathways upon which the candy ball can roll all the way to your hamster.

Often, there are other shapes, often colored light blue, present in the puzzle field that can either help you decide the best way to draw these paths or act as blockades to make the stage even more challenging.

Now there’s actually some physics involved as the candy often drops from a height and gravity would thereafter take its course, letting the candy roll on the pre-existing blue shapes and gaps. In other cases, a candy might remain immobile on top of a shape and the only way you can move it is by drawing a line or figure that will “push” it toward your intended direction. Other times, you might encounter some obstacles like spaces you can’t draw on, falling objects, and the like (more on this later). 

Generally speaking, there are tons and tons of variations for the puzzles and there’s really no one-size-fits-all approach. Of course, there’s the “best” way to achieve your goals, but even this can be rather subjective. Basically, everyone can arrive at the same answer, but they can each have a different solution.

While we can’t give an exact formula to win every puzzle, what we do know for sure is that using a stylus for your screen is definitely going to give you a much easier time as opposed to drawing lines with a finger.

As we mentioned, most of the stages start rather easy but, as with every game, progression also means reaching a higher level of difficulty. When you do reach those higher levels, you might find that drawing lines, curves, and different shapes with your finger can be tricky since the result isn’t as accurate as when you use a stylus.

It’s even more challenging when you need to fit lines in a narrow space or make long winding paths. When using your finger to draw, paths have a tendency to get cut off if your gesture doesn’t register.

Then again, you can always just reset the stage if you’ve failed to solve the puzzle as the game doesn’t make you lose any lives or ask you to pay any of the in-game currencies available. But just the same, nobody wants to keep replaying a stage just because drawing lines with their finger can be inaccurate. In this case, we highly recommend getting a stylus so you can have more elbow room to draw as smoothly and accurately as you can.

Different Strokes for Different Folks

Since solving puzzles in Hamster Town basically incorporates a measure of freehand drawing, the phrase “different strokes for different folks” applies—and quite literally, too. Like we said, everyone can arrive at the same answer but have different solutions. In this case, you have the creative freedom to draw paths in what you think is the best way to solve the puzzle.

At the beginning of the game and in some other stages, you will be coached on how to solve certain puzzles. Consider this an informal tutorial mode. The game will ask you to trace a line or a shape that will help you solve the puzzle, thereby giving you a free pass. Pay attention to these lines and shapes because you will be using them repeatedly in succeeding stages. In short, these simple strokes are often the most effective solutions to what may seem like complicated puzzles. Below, we’ve outlined 3 of these basic strokes and included a bonus one that isn’t explicitly shown in the tutorials but is nevertheless often used in many stages. Let’s take a look at each of them:

Lines

Simple straight lines are, of course, the most basic figure you’ll draw in the game. Depending on the puzzle, you’ll likely be drawing a variety of or a combination of slanted lines, horizontal lines, vertical lines, etc. Naturally, straight lines are used to connect one pre-existing blue shape with another, allowing the candy to roll between gaps. Sometimes, straight lines can also block obstacles from interfering with your candy’s path.

Straight lines are quite versatile and you’ll find that for almost any puzzle, a straight line would work wonders in solving your predicament in the simplest yet most effective way, provided you know where to place them. Of course, you can always turn straight lines into a myriad of other figures like boxes and triangles, which you will also encounter quite frequently in the game.

Triangles

Among the many shapes that you can create with straight lines, triangles are perhaps the most common and the most effective for solving almost any puzzle. You don’t necessarily have to draw a complete triangle, just more of an inverted V-shape as this figure can often stand on its own without a base.

Usually, triangles are used as platforms that allow the candy ball to easily roll down to your hamster from a height. This figure is also quite useful when you don’t have pre-existing shapes to propel the candy ball forward. The triangle is basically an all-around figure that doesn’t just provide some needed inertia, but it also serves as a way to block the candy from rolling over a gap.

Curves

Think of curves as the figure representing your finger as this can push the candy ball toward your intended direction. Unlike triangles, curves can’t stand on their own and will simply fall on the ground after being scribbled. However, if you draw them next to a candy ball, the shape and falling motion of a curve can provide just enough force to cause the candy to move.

Of course, you may try drawing other figures to push the candy ball, but curves are by far one of the most effective, especially when there aren’t any other blue shapes present aside from that which the candy ball rests upon. On the other hand, if there are other blue shapes present, curves work best when combined with triangles, provided you’re allowed by the stage to draw multiple figures.

Hooks

Hooks aren’t something that you’d encounter in the tutorial stages, but you’ll find yourself using them more frequently than you’d expect. As its name suggests, a hook is often anchored on one pre-existing blue shape and can serve 2 purposes: one is to provide the candy with a path if there’s a wide gap between the pre-existing shape and the location of your hamster; another is to use it as an alternative to curves, wherein a hook can push the candy ball as it swings forward and uses the end of the figure as a pin.

We recommend using this method as opposed to just drawing curves when the candy ball is situated between a narrow passage created by pre-existing shapes, as seen in the image below.

You can use hooks anytime, provided there’s a shape that you can anchor it on. The anchor doesn’t have to be a circle—it can be any blue shape just as long as you can “hook” the figure onto it.

Again, these are just some of the basic figures you’ll encounter when playing puzzles. Some stages may need more complex figures that don’t fall into any of these basic categories. Don’t feel boxed in by the figures outlined above—you can simply use them as guideposts when attempting to discover the most effective solution to a puzzle.