Mushroom 11

This is an extremely dynamic and interesting game! The only time I can remember feeling similar vibe is maybe the first time I played World of Goo. It feels very organic and yet somehow familiar. Personally I took the controls like, immediately, and felt like I was the blob. The levels have that great mix of ease and difficulty. Some levels will probably have people just skipping some of the hard optional parts, but for people like me who love completing every little thing, trying to achieve the very difficult DNA strands is a real challenge and a fun one at that. The only thing I will warn you--and this is not a complaint--is that the game is very time-consuming. Several levels took me over half an hour to finish. I am having a blast the entire time but you should be warned this isn't a pick up and play five minute fix type game. I absolutely recommend you grab it because you will have a blast!

Once you understand the concept, which doesn't take long at all, this is one of the most interesting and satisfying games available. The amorphous blob is like a strange organic bio-goo that regenerates as long as you manage to advance some amount of it through each puzzle challenge. I still don't have the ratio down, but I've found you can use as many fingers as you want, and erasing the left-behind bits instantly regenerates the primary blob. If you just like the challenge of a cool game, this game satisfies completely. What I find most intriguing is that Mushroom 11 is a strange, poetic analog to real-life problem solving that causes, or rather, allows you to utilize parts of your brain that the typical "crush and shoot" arcade-style games don't. I love those standards, too, but this is something wholly more imaginative altogether. A+.

I absolutely love this game, and it’s probably one of my all time favorites. The controls are super responsive, and the physics are surprisingly good Although sometimes some hilarious happens, like when my mushroom decides to become a rocket in the middle of a boss stage On the whole, this is probably one of the best game out here and the puzzles are complicated but fun Ok so now I’ll give a few spoilers, but know the game doesn’t actually tell you these things If you pay attention to the background, you can slightly piece together what happened in this apocalyptic landscape For example, in the first and second level there are billboards advertising an anti-aging product, and in chapter 4 (I think) there a bunch of little mushroom balls along with “A life without end is not a life worth living” so I’m guessing that the mushroom was used in, or is a product of that anti aging thing. Also you might wanna check out that tire swing in chapter two Good luck!

A good SF story takes a premise like “people live on Mars,” and examines how the world is different because of people living on Mars. Mushroom 11 starts with an interesting premise, grow a fungal blob through a Post-Apocalyptic landscape by destroying it on one side, but fails to follow through on all the implications. Particularly, it doesn’t allow the camera to leave the portion of the blob the game feels you should be looking at, doesn’t provide a mechanism for swapping the camera focus, erases any of the blob that leaves the currently visible part of the level, and has puzzles requiring the blob to be split into two portions that are larger than the area the game will show you. This would be an interesting game if the blob could usefully be split up or there were a way to freeze one portion of the blob to allow better control of where it grows. As it is, the concept feels half-finished.

Wow, that was... weird! Atmospheric and grotesque, and extremely tricky, but very, very well thought out and fun to play! The mood reminded me of Earthbound, sort of too depressed to be more than mildly creepy, if that makes sense... and the gameplay is amazing. I played through the whole game and I still don’t know the rules of how to move, you just... do it. It’s all about feel and finesse, but the problem solving thrown in sets the pace perfectly. Only complaint? The game really is very short. I finished it in maybe 3 hours of solid gameplay, over 2 days? That’s not a lot for $4.99, gotta be honest, so a little disappointed there. I’m not really sure if it’ll have much replay value, so that really is a disappointment. Hence, 4 stars instead of 5.