Mushroom 11

Comparing such an inventive and distinct game to a bothersome door, of all things, absolutely does a disservice to its wonderfully talented artists and storytellers. This gracefully hand-drawn dystopia deserves to be explored and pondered over.

Both genuinely original and a smart physics puzzler, but aggravating in places, Mushroom 11 falls a few inches short of a...

Chic, stylish and inventive, Mushroom 11 explores every nook of creative space within the tight boundaries it sets for itself. Behind its protagonist and exotic movement scheme, the game's rhythm structure is as familiar as its setting (puzzle, boss, puzzle - verse, chorus, verse), but this familiarity only serves to heighten its experimental ideas. They shine ever so brightly on the derelict canvas of post-nuclear fallout Russia.

Mushroom 11 is a maddening, difficult, beautiful and smart bit of puzzle platforming. Each level is a series of set-pieces in a hauntingly ruined world, growing off the remains of humanity but far from dead. The remnants of civilization have left a toxic stain on the planet, but the life that survives is mostly capable of living in the desolation.

Guide an amorphous organism across brain-twisting obstacles by destroying it. Overcome swarms of mutated creatures and understand the true nature of the devastation from which you...

A unique puzzle platformer with an engrossing main mechanic, only really held back its sometimes frustrating puzzles and its brevity. A definite buy if you are a platformer or puzzle...