On Steam for Mac, there are very few quality options these days that will run on computers without dedicated graphics cards. While most of the games currently on Steam are excellent choices, such as Portal, Torchlight or Team Fortress 2, it's tough to run them on laptops. Enter Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!, one of the newest offerings on Steam for Mac that has an odd concept, but seems to hit the spot in terms of casual play.

The concept behind the game is this: you play as a group of four girls who go around the school taunting, flirting, fibbing and exposing their classmates and various members of the administration to uncover the answers to various mysteries going on about the school. There are five mini-games that you can play as you explore the school, each of which involve the suits of a standard deck of cards. As your girls successfully complete these games, they have a chance of leveling up and gaining an extra talent point that will make them even better at their chosen high school profession.

Taunting is much like insult sword-fighting from the popular Monkey Island series. You begin with just a few choice taunts and as you go around the school taunting others, you discover new taunts and retorts that can be used. If a taunt lands, it takes off a certain number of esteem points from the person you're taunting. If a retort is given, it takes off the same number of points from the person who taunted. There are a number of choice taunts in the game, some of which are hilarious and incredibly creative.

Flirting is a minigame that takes a good eye for spotting patterns. Your flirting target puts out one of the four suits and you have to determine which one matches with it. If you're correct, you get a token in the attraction meter. Fill that meter up and the boy becomes your beau, lending his highest talent to you in times of need. The interesting part about flirting is that every girl has only a certain number of assets (suit tokens) at her disposal, which means trial and error isn't always the most effective way to determine what the pattern is. This becomes especially difficult in some of the later parts of the game where some men force you to use multiple suits in order to flirt with them.

Fibbing is a bidding game where you have five tokens and a certain number of flips. Each token will either be blank or have one of the four suits on it. Using the standard poker hands, you and your opponent take turns bidding. You can choose to either use your flips to improve your hand or call your opponent if you think they're bluffing. You can win by getting called when you were telling the truth or calling your opponent when they're bluffing.

Exposing tests your command of the English language and sentence structure by making you extrapolate words in a few sentences that aren't there. You are presented with a number of suit tokens in a row with a certain amount of free exposures. Using your free exposures, you can reveal the word underneath each token to form the beginnings of a sentence. When you're out of exposures, you must guess the words underneath the remaining tokens. You can only win if you get the sentence completely right without misguessing a word.

There is one final minigame that you learn later in your state of play: Gambit. The Gambit is introduced by the characters as a "game for adults" with a certain amount of overtone, which was hilarious when you finally learned what the game was. You get two suited tokens with numbers on them to place in three categories - Brazen, Smooth or Devious - in a rock, paper, scissors type of game. Brazen scores the number of tokens and cancels your opponent's Smooth score. Smooth scores the number of tokens and cancels your opponent's Devious score. Devious steals your opponent's Brazen score. It's a tough game to master, probably the most challenging in the game, but it does offer larger rewards to those who actually do master it.

These five minigames are complemented by a world formed by game boards, cards and silver tokens that add to the game's charm masquerading as a board game from them 1960s. The music is also top-notch in terms of atmosphere, adding in that scratchy record sound in the background of every track. The story can be a little difficult to follow, but Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! will entertain for a good long time before becoming too boring. The games are challenging enough that the story will continue to remain fresh, even after the games have been mastered. This is a definite must-buy for folks currently on Steam for Mac with nothing to buy.