Fugdale’s Funhouse

Review: If you’ve ever enjoyed the “Where’s Waldo?” Books or any other children’s book where you have to locate a specific object in a scene of several hundred objects, you will enjoy this game. The designers of this game put themselves into it as tiny little pixel art characters.

The screen has at least a hundred little characters standing around. You must move a huge technological arrow (that looks like a big computer chip) around the crowd, trying to pinpoint the one designer indicated at the bottom of the screen. All the other people will skirt and side step from underneath the arrow because they all apparently avoid technology. The lone designer will stay put. But this lack of movement doesn’t always make them any easier to spot. Often times the designer you seek will stand behind a group of people and make themselves quite undetectable.

Sometimes you can spot them right off the bat. But, this usually happens out of luck or the fact that they have a distinctive color shirt on. Other times, you will spend quite a long time milling through the crowd looking for that one person who doesn’t wander away from you. If you find the designer within the time limit allowed (which seems rather short), you advance to a new level. But, if you click on the wrong area or run out of time, you have to go back to level one. Luckily the game will allow you to continue searching for the designer even if the timer runs out. The levels don’t really increase in difficulty and often you will have to find the same designer several times in a row. If you have the eagle eye to make it to level 20, you will get rewarded with “God Like” status.

The game doesn’t have too much variety, so most players will tire of it pretty quickly. However, it definitely has the same appeal as a ball of string might have to a cat…irresistible to play with, but won’t capture the attention for too long.