

After the devilish thrill of hunting scientists, this lock-and-key stuff is a little anticlimactic, and without a map to help guide you, you’ll often be retracing your slime in order to find out where you’re supposed to go next in order to open up the game world again. You must locate vats of bubbling liquid in order to gain new abilities which, once acquired, unlock previously inaccessible areas of the underworld. With a flick a sucker-pad, you rip a steel door from its frame, then chomp the scientists inside to a pulpĪny game in which you play such an overpowered fiend must construct its challenge from other sources, and the Polish developer, Phobia Game Studio, opts to make the world itself the puzzle in need of a solution. You feel something like pity as, with a flick of a sucker-pad, you rip a steel door from its frame, then chomp the scientists inside to a pulp before they can level their weapons or emit a scream.


Photograph: Devolverīut your most striking feature is not your adaptability so much as your rapidity: as you consume bodies you gain ever more tendrils, which are used to propel and swing your mass through the environment at fearsome, bungee-esque speed. In a darkened realm suited to your spineless form, you traverse like a kind of stringy treacle.
