The Splatters: an adorable race of chicken nugget-shaped goo globs that crave fame and followers far exceeding their humble beginnings. As naturals in the art of creative splattering, their best bet for achieving stardom is through Splatter TV, the viral sensation that highlights the most talented Splatters as they perform self-exploding stunts in front of a live audience. Only the most splattastic among them will become Super Splatters, and it's your job to help those starry-eyed, toothy-grinned blobs make it.
Some days are all sunshine, and some days you're an orange praying the omnipotent finger of the player will successfully use physics and whatever junk may be lying around to create a ramshackle roof over your head, because there's a cloud with a face wearing the helmet from Skyrim hell-bent on stoning you to death.
They come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow. Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is a refreshing puzzle/physics game that reminds us of the hazards the mighty Viking warriors stood up to during their exploits: ice, freezing winds, evil magic, and troll boogers.
You might imagine that Gunpoint is a game about shooting things, given its name - but that's actually far from the truth. In fact, the game only gives you a gun around three-quarters of the way into play, and if you do choose to shoot someone, the situation can go completely downhill from that moment.
If there is any type of game it feels like Disney well and truly owns, it's the Where's My...? series begun by Where's My Water? and carried on by Where's My Perry?, starring Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus/secret agent. The latest in the series goes back to the very foundation of Disney by using Mickey Mouse, which ties in to the upcoming new-styled cartoon shorts the company's animation division is producing.
Some of the best video game stories are those that involve no words at all. Hero of Many doesn't throw a single line of dialogue at you, yet you'll become engrossed in this tale of a little water orb and his army of water-beings. There's mystery, intrigue, and plenty of physics-based puzzles to overcome along the way.
When a little physics-puzzle game about an alligator named Swampy who just wanted to take a shower hit the App Store in 2011, I don't think anyone was expecting the colossal hit that was about to rock the world of mobile gaming. It soon became clear that Disney's Where My Water? was simply too big to be held in that underground bathtub, so next players saw a licensed sequel in Where's My Perry?, based on the popular Disney cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. Well now we finally know what's in store for the future of Where's My…? games, and that future is starring none other than Disney's own Mickey Mouse!
Cling Thing is the latest physics-puzzler game from Chillingo and Atom-Soft, and this one is all about helping a cutesy little squish creature traverse through various levels by clinging to the sticky walls around him. But even though Cling Thing features a ton of puzzling levels and deeper incentives to keep you clinging and swinging back for more, its vague denotation of "thing" in the title proves to be just as vague and bland as the actual adventure that's contained within.