Giant Blobs From Mars

3/10 hardly a puzzle game, you just click on everything.

Giant Blobs From Mars is an usual, simplistic low poly puzzle game where you drop a single blob from a UFO, and must make that blob grow and spread before each node dies, until you cover the playing area in each level. The trick is that it takes "energy" to take over each square on the grid, and you only have so much time before each blob dies, so you need to budget and plan carefully. As far as puzzle games go the concept is unique and clever, I liked it. While this was made in Unity I couldn't see any evidence to suggest this was an asset flip, it's a genuine indie video game. That's great to see, and unfortunately all too rare in this world of cash grabs and asset flips. Unfortunately this is far from perfect, there's a few issues. The low poly/minimalist art isn't really up to the standards one would expect from a contemporary PC game. The controls and camera angles aren't perfect, either, moving around the map was dissatisfying, and expanding your blobs is finicky when it should be simple and obvious how to do it. All these problems stem from a single, somewhat obvious root cause... this seems to be a mobile app rather than a PC game. It looks and feels like it was designed for app stores and mobile devices, right down to the "three stars per level" mobile shtick. It seems like this was launched on Steam (for PC games) instead of the app stores by mistake. I think this game could do very well on mobile because of the unique premise, but it's just not up to scratch for a PC game.

ゲーム中に文章はあまり無いが、BepInEx（x86版）とXUnity.AutoTranslator-BepInEx-5.2.0で日本語に自動翻訳が可能（多分ReiPatcherでも可能）。 パズルゲームの一種。宇宙生命体ブロブ（日本で昔公開された映画風に言えば巨大アメーバ）を地面に置くとその土地の資源を吸い上げてエネルギーを生成し、エネルギーが増えれば隣接する土地に自分の複製を作る事が出来る。土地の種類によって複製を置けるコストと土地から作れる生成エネルギーが違う。コストが高い土地からは多量のエネルギーを得られる。土地の資源が枯れるとブロブは死んでしまうので、死ぬ前に隣接する土地にブロブを複製しておかないといけない。全ての土地にブロブを置ければステージクリア。文章で説明するとややこしいが、実際にプレイすれば結構シンプル。マウスだけではマップを自由に動かせないのが欠点だし、ゲームとして面白いかどうかは微妙なところだが値段が安いのでまあ良いかと。

The atmosphere is good. It was a better experience than expected.

没中文 没成就 《来自火星的巨型黏液怪》 你是一只来自火星的巨型黏液怪，抵达地球的目的是吞噬这颗星球丰富的陆地资源。策略性放置第一个黏液怪，然后通过吞食陆地获取能量 —— 包括农场、森林、山丘、村庄等！每块陆地都会提供一定能量资源，可用来持续繁殖黏液怪，让它们在环境中扩散。试着吞噬每一寸土地，不留任何死角！挑战一系列难度递增的关卡，通过有序吞食地球来让黏液怪存活得越久越好。 游戏体验 沉浸音效：游戏音乐以舒缓的木吉他氛围为特色，将玩家拉入游戏中，不知不觉点击数小时而忘却时间。 休闲定位：《来自火星的巨型黏液怪》专为休闲消磨时间设计，无需过度费脑。只需放松身心，享受音乐，点击吞噬陆地方块，让黏液怪存活并挑战下一难度关卡。

Basique puzzle game, oubliable

Blob invasion imminent! A chess?-like invasion-blob game! I don't think I've played anything like this before. Worth a try if you like puzzle games with a twist.

goated game, too stressful tho