You Should Buy World of Goo!

I really don’t have much to say about World of Goo aside from glowing praise. For those unaware, it is a simple puzzle game about building structures of goo to get from one area to another. The idea is to do it using the least amount of goo possible. It is a simple idea, but lends itself nicely to replay value, especially considering you get to use that extra goo in another mode. Almost all of the challenges are immediately obvious, but the fun comes from your own unique goo structure solution rather than figuring out what it is you have to do.

World of Goo Trailer 2 Director's Cut
by 2dboy

What really ties the game together is it’s incredible art style, interesting music, and hilarious writing (see above trailer). I laughed out loud at the reference they made to this terrible commercial from a few years back. The art style is reminiscent of a Tim Burton film and the music sets the mood nicely. It’s hard to believe only one person was supposedly responsible for both the audio and visuals.

The game is a blast to play and constantly throws new goo types and level designs into the equation to mix up the gameplay. Once you get used to the regular type, they’ll throw in balloons or explosives or weird digital projectiles, all the while keeping the simple intuitive point and click controls.

What’s more is the game could probably use your help. As you probably know it was created by a small independent dev team. They went out on a limb in light of all the DRM controversy and released the game on their website DRM free. This of course resulted in something like a 90% piracy rate. It is supposedly not as bad as it seems thanks to the WiiWare and Steam releases of the game, but still we didn’t do a great job of making our point to EA about not needing a DRM now did we?

Anyway, consider this a ringing endorsement for one of the most clever and original games of 2008. It’s only 20 bucks and well worth it, now if only anyone read this blog. ;)