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Review: World of Goo: Trippy puzzle game (Chris Holt, Macworld.com)

World of Goo is a trippy puzzle game that pushes your knowledge of physics to its gooey limits in a post-modernistic setting. Fun, quirky, and highly-addictive, World of Goo is one of the most entertaining puzzle games to come to the Mac in years.

Divided into five chapters and a loose story about a World Goo Corporation that transforms the self-aware Goo into things like beauty cream, World of Goo has hours of amusing, challenging, and just plain weird missions to play through. [...]

World of Goo are a physics simulator at heart, so expect to build plenty of triangles. The difficulty curve gets steep quickly as you’re introduced to new types of Goo. Eventually, you’ll have to float your structures around obstacles, spring booby-traps, ignite explosives, and construct “drool” to progress.

The structures you end up building have a liquid quality that is deeply disconcerting. But it shares the most important aspect of any successful game for non-techies, when you fail you believe you'll get it next time.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at December 12, 2008 1:10 PM