Fugdale’s Funhouse

Review: I might have a difficult time describing this game. It’s one of those you just need to play once or twice to understand how it works. But let me do my best. You start with a six by six grid which contains various sized blobs of green goop. The blobs come in four sizes–small medium large and full. You have 10 ‘drops’ in your tank. You use a drop, by dropping it on any one of the blobs. When you do this, the size of the blob increases one step. When you drop on a full sized blob (a large circular blob) it will explode sending liquid in all four directions. The liquid that moves across the board hits the next available blob and increases it’s size by one.

So you must use your drops effectively, trying to make combinations of popping blobs to help you eliminate the remaining blobs faster. You receive bonus drops each time you complete a combination and when you clear each level.

The game actually plays very simply. Once you try it, you will understand it quickly and have fun with it. It doesn’t require a lot of mental figuring out. You mostly choose full blobs which are adjacent to growing blobs and try to work your way through the board. The first time I played, I easily cleared four levels before running out of drops. I imagine with a little planning, you can keep going indefinitely. I haven’t quite run across this concept in a puzzler game before, so I enjoyed the fresh game mechanics this game provides.