Every puzzle gives way to three new ones at a relentless pace, and no two puzzles are exactly alike. I've yet to feel as though developers have run out of ideas—one second I'm climbing walls and timing jumps, the next I'm navigating a maze inside of a giant rolling ball, working my way to an exit while avoiding oncoming acid. Then suddenly, a race against a descending wall of lasers, followed by a flying level, followed by flinging myself through a free-fall down a spike-lined chute. Slow-moving timed puzzles give way to reaction-based jumping at the blink of an eye, before merging into touch-screen finagling and black-hole dodging. It never gets boring.

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The puzzles' solutions are as creative as the puzzles themselves—time and again I thought I was stuck only to realize some new way that I could use one of the four or five moves that I learned in the first few levels. Each level is short and to the point tight, well-structured in its design.

Mutant Blobs Attack is charming yet diabolical, funny yet hardcore, difficult and rewarding in equal measure. It'll creep up on you like a slinking clump of flesh-eating goo, patiently waiting for you to wander beneath its maw, ready to dissolve you into a bloody paste of laughing good times.

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Wait, erm… that didn't quite come out how I intended. Anyway! You won't see this game coming, and before too long you'll realize that you've been sucked in, determinedly pushing and pulling yourself through challenge after challenge, a crease on your brow and a smile on your face.