Greetings, worms! Lastly, for all you readers who’re worms, scouring Nintendo Life for worm-related content material, right here’s a recreation that places annelids entrance and centre. Wiggling onto Swap from solo dev Munted Finger, Can of Wormholes dares to open that proverbial can and launch squiggly chicken meals – if we could name you that – straight at a beautiful array of cross-dimensional puzzles. Worms all over the place can stand proud. Or not less than simply type of lie proud.
The foundations of the sport are easy sufficient to get your minuscule worm brains round: on every stage, you, the worm protagonist, should wriggle right into a worm-shaped slot. You progress your head square-by-square on a grid and the remainder of your physique follows the trail you’re taking – very like once you eat via a flowerbed, aerating the soil. A crucial tweak to proceedings is that, when reversing, your tail finish at all times goes again in a straight line, not retracing the route it got here by. Additional mechanical additions embody drugs that may be eaten to develop longer, blocks to push, shapes to ingest, and extra. The sport even permits the unhappy discovery that slicing a worm in two doesn’t, the truth is, create two worms. (Not two residing worms, anyway.)
The puzzle selection is critically spectacular. Challenges are grouped in type of wormy spaceships, and hopping between ships – a meta-puzzle in its personal proper – introduces new ideas alongside new visible themes. However even inside every ship, the vary of logical checks is spectacular, with new concepts stacked on prime of one another constantly. And they’re critical mind teasers – or not less than they’ll tease the small, brain-like ganglion on the prime of your central nerve wire. (No offence, however you worms should not actually identified to your mental prowess – you’re extra about intuition. That and consuming grime.)
However to accompany the trickiness of the puzzles, there’s a trace system that really goes the additional mile. It doesn’t maintain you by the hand – or by the bristle-like setae that cowl your worm physique – quite, it takes day trip to truly train you the core idea of every poser. It does this by dropping out of the stage right into a smaller, less complicated, black-and-white setting. Right here, the crux of the puzzle is remoted as a way to work out the important thing concepts for your self earlier than taking them again to the ‘actual world’ and making use of them. It leaves a lot as much as you because the participant that it by no means looks like a cheat or a cop-out to name on it.
For probably the most half, the presentation is obvious and to the purpose, letting the puzzles do the speaking. As worms with no eyes, you’re not lacking too a lot on the graphics entrance. Nevertheless, outfitted as you’re to detect vibrations, you’ll respect the music, which brilliantly drops in optimistic cues once you make a key step alongside an answer, or goes a bit dissonant once you’ve tousled.
With ingenious puzzles, a excessive stage of problem, and an academic trace system, watch out or Can of Wormholes may have you hooked.