The simple start to the Creeper World series. It's fun, challenging, and doesn't overstay it's welcome. Here's some cons about the game: it's audio design is messed up, because the sound effects play disproportionately louder than the music; the story's also a bit of a disappointment. But little things like that are only slight annoyances that don't ruin the experience as a whole. It's just confusing that they're still present, even though it's a newer edition. . .

Other than that, it's a great game. I love Creeper World!

Classic flash game brought to steam. Could not say if there is much QoL in the anniversary over the original. It lacks a lot of polish of the newer version, but hey it's the first game. Even at full price, it's a solid game if you like the other editions. Took me ~10 hours to 100% it, so absolutely worth it for me.

I played the demo on Kongregate, a flash game website, years ago. It captured my heart for the majority of December. I spent an entire day locked in my room gently nudging turrets up the screen eliminating slime one pixel at a time. The game itself is not particularly hard. It can be easily cheesed, and some of the cheesing is an intended game mechanic.

I would sum it all up as such: You manage energy by building nodes which "capture" space. The more space you have captured the more energy and therefore the more turrets you can build. The enemy's only task is to expand into space and try to take it all up.

There are considerations such as space, terrain, and building management. These are ancillary. They are not necessarily *hard* choices, but they are choices. I have enjoyed the simplicity of watching fluids be run off a map. In writing this, I would compare it to those simulator games where you deep clean a house. The fun is not so much in the cleaning or holding down the button, but in watching the grime disappear. The Creeper creeps and it does so predictably. This gives the game a chill atmosphere. There are a few attempts at making things difficult, or mixing them up, but the difficulty here is not the point.

I place a turret. It shoots slime for a while. I place another and another and eventually all the slime is gone and I get to clean up an entire map all over again.

It's a phenomenal gameplay loop.

I only have seven hours on this version, but I played it on Kongregate and later on a cracked version. Now I'm legit and I have to say I'm exceedingly happy with my purchase.

My only critique is in the writing. It's pretty cringe. There may be spelling mistakes. It doesn't matter. I click through the story so I can clear more creep. If it's creeping, I'm weeping.