Microsoft's weekly app discounting initiative, Red Stripe Deals, is now in its fifth week. This weeks offerings include Xbox Live title Farm Frenzy 2 (farm-based resource management game), Drawastickman: Epic (puzzle game that starts with you drawing your own character), and Jack of Tools Pro (a collection of small utilities from flash light to compass and everything in between). All three are reduced from their usual price of £1.49 / $1.99 / €1.99 to £0.79 / $0.99 / €0.99 for the next seven days.

Here's how we reviewed Farm Frenzy 2 late last year (82%):

It all boils down to resource management, and with limits of three to five minutes per level, time is the biggest resource you don't have, so everything has to be measured against that. And did I mention the bears that fall into the screen, grabbing your animals and running away with them? You'll need to tap fast to cage and capture them.

Because the other wonderful thing about Farm Frenzy is that it is all tap based - from the rapid tapping to build a bear cage, to single taps on empty ground to water and grow grass for the chickens to eat and lay eggs, which you tap to pick up, if you want them to go into your egg factory (assuming you were given it at the start of the level, or subsequently bought it... by tapping the highlighted area of the screen).

Tap, tap, tap.

Here's how the Windows Phone blog describes the weekly deals:

Each week the Store’s Red Strip Deals Collection will feature three popular apps and games—typically one Xbox game, one indie game, and one top-rated app—for at least 50% off the original price. (In case you’re wondering, the collection name derives from the red stripe you’ll see around each discounted app’s icon in the phone Store).

The Red Stripe Deals can be accessed via the direct links provided above, or via the Windows Phone Store collections feature, either via the desktop website, or via the Store app on any Windows Phone device.