I don’t play video games anywhere near as much as I used to. Other than Football Manager 2009, I don’t have anything else to play, or really all that much free time to spend playing games. However, it’s nice to have a quick blast of something fun and easy to get into, which has led me to find the wonderful World of Goo, described by its creators ’2D Boy’ as:
…a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don’t know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
World of Goo essentially asks you to build a structure made of Goo Balls to get as many of the rest of your Goo Balls from A to B, overcoming challenges and obstacles along the way. The less Goo Balls you use to build the structure, the more points you score due to there being more Goo Balls left at the end of the level.
This is from one of the early levels that are featured in the demo of the game that you can download. I urge you to try the game, even if gaming isn’t something you’ve traditionally been all that keen on. You’ll soon get addicted and want to get those Goo Balls across each level and continue to harder levels with more complex challenges. It doesn’t take a lot of skill with the mouse or keyboard, just a lot of thought!
Oh, and it’s currently available on a pay-what-you-like-for-it basis as the creators celebrate the game’s first birthday. So go and buy it now! I paid a few dollars for it myself.