World of Goo
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Description
"It's packed full of brilliant, challenging levels. It's gorgeous." - IGN.com
"Innovative, addictive, and delightfully weird, World of Goo is a superb puzzle game." - Gamespot.com
World Of Goo is a simple puzzle building game with a quirky, surreal sense of humour. Connect balls of goo together to form makeshift bridges and towers to build a path, guiding the goo balls to the exit.
- All the makings of a classic: engrossing, obsessive and addictive gameplay. Easy to learn, hard to master!
- 48 levels with wide-ranging objectives and a variety of goo!
- Realistic sound effects add to the game's wit and personality - yelping, cheering goo balls make every move an event.
- Fantastic, atmospheric soundtrack: carefully chosen music tracks set the atmosphere for each level.
- Different types of goo have special abilities - some drip like water, some float like helium balloons, some are sticky and some are spike-proof. Engaging game design brings them all together to solve the most fiendish predicaments.
- A unique visual experience: brilliant design is achieved through vibrant and contrasting colours and beautiful graphics, giving a surreal cartoon feel.
Customer reviews
91
One of the Best Indie Games
Chack | Nov. 6, 2011 | See all Chack's reviews »World of Goo is one of those unique games, that does everything right (almost), from graphics and art style, and level designs and gameplay.
Your main objective is to use some weird creatures called Goo, so you can reach a pipe, where you must fill with Goo, as much as possible (that's the best explanation I can do).
If you want to try some new puzzle game, this is it! Look no further.
90
Truly Entertaining Puzzler
Endyo | Oct. 2, 2011 | See all Endyo's reviews »World of Goo offers reasonable challenges with engaging yet incredibly simple gameplay. It's a game that a five year old could play but a full grown adult would find fun. There's not a lot one can say about this game in reviewing it that would give someone an idea of what they're in for. You're basically using small orbs to create structures that must reach a collection device that retains all of your remaining orbs. The orbs themselves are some sort of living entities that stretch themselves and stick together in various ways to allow you to build these stuctures. There are also a variety of types of 'goo' that have different properties, such as being able to be reused, floating, or dangling.
What you get is a game with plenty of length, plenty of challenge, and is easily accessible to anyone wanting to experience it. It's one of those indie titles that everyone should play because the vast majority will have a great time with it. It's atmospheric and a little funny so even if you don't really get in to puzzles, you'll have some fun just being a part of it.
92
an indie gem you owe to yourself to try
soad667 | Sept. 3, 2011 | See all soad667's reviews »A wonderful puzzle game, which unexpectedly can set quite a few emotions to start rolling in you, depends on how emotional you can get while playing games. Simple but beautiful looks. You control some balls of goo which can attach to each other, on their way to... freedom. There are different types of them, and each type has its own ability. If you plan to OCD every single level, it will take you a while, otherwise the campaign is a bit short. Also there is an online mode where you simply build a tower as high as it can get, using the goo balls you earn from the story. Won't go into more details about that, it will spoil the experience for you. In this online mode you can see in the background the "ghost towers" of other players so the competition is always ongoing, without you having to do something. Just target for the skies and build. Finally, a great community is behind this game, with a large number of maps/mods already out. If you love the concept, those customs will take a lot of your free time.
85
Amazing Indie Game
faraany3k | Aug. 30, 2011 | See all faraany3k's reviews »World of Goo is a rare indie title that has a polish of a retail title. Art design, music and game mechanics are superbly done. In a world of Goo we are in control of small goo balls. We need to stick them onto each other and create a a web of goo balls to reach a certain point in the level. All this is done by considering laws of physics. There are many types of Goo balls involved which keep the puzzles fresh and engaging. This is one of the most unique indie games in the market with an original idea. All puzzles are superbly laid and become increasingly challenging as you progress, Game is easy enough for anyone to just pick and play. Which makes World of Goo a great family title. A great indie game with fun puzzles and unique gameplay that not available anywhere else. Get it asap, you will not regret it.
75
A lot of fun.
Xonus | Aug. 24, 2011 | See all Xonus's reviews »A great, and pretty short, puzzle game. Despite being pretty short, it has lots of different levels, and a few general types of environment, along with a 'twist' in gameplay in the latter parts of it.
The music is nice and sometimes great, and there are some amusing parts. The puzzles themselves are pretty challenging, but at times not at all. There are different gameplay elements introduced as you play along, which makes it better.