World Of Goo (PC)

At first glance, this looks easy. I'm not unduly worried about the dangerous looking spikes protruding from the floor, because these handy balloon balls will support the weight of my structure when gravity attacks its integrity. I start plucking the bustling black goo balls off the vine-like structure, their little eyes widening when selected. The first few go on fine, their viscous appendages reaching out and eagerly grasping adjacent goo balls. Several later however, and my structure starts to sag, straining under its own unsupported weight. Contact with the spikes below would spell certain ... more

World of Goo is the creation of indie game developer 2D Boy (a team consisting of two former EA employees), and was released in 2008. The game is available on PC, Wii, iOS and Android. It has also been made available on Steam, the popular digital download service. The game is essentially a puzzle game, with the objective being to create structures out of goo balls, in order to channel any remaining goo balls to the pipes that are at the end of every level. The player is only given a defined number of goo balls each time, so it is important to keep the goo structures as simple as possible ... more

I love these sorts of quirky puzzle or adventure style games that come along every so often from game designers so much, and World of Goo is no different! World of Goo is basically a puzzle game in which you have some goo, and you have to get you goo from where ever you start on the level, to the exit (where ever that may be placed on the level). To do this you click on your goo and connect it to other pieces of goo to form bridges, towers and paths to move your goo towards the exit. There can be various obstacles along the way to increase the difficulty of the game, but as you progress ... more