Recent reviews by Weekend at Baldwin's

It's maybe tower defense at its core, but its done in such a unique fashion that it honestly never feels like that's what I'm playing. In fact, it feels completely different than anything I've played before.

There's a heart at the center, and then there's all the gross baddies trying to invade it. You're tasked with creating and connecting organs together in order to fend them off. Connect this organ to that one, now you've got a wall. That one to this one, now you've got a thorny ring of defense. The type of organs connected and even the direction you connect them from will result in different creations. Experimentation is key.

In fact with the "learn by experimentation" mechanics and overall presentation this game feels quite a lot like some creepy old science experiment you've gotten yourself into.

Tutorials are available, but there's much to learn beyond them, and at least personally I feel like finding out how all the organs interact with each other is a big draw of the experience. I'd recommend avoiding them as long as you can. (I found the sandbox mode actually worked great as a less stressful playground for finding out how things work.)

The game is frantic and fast. I die a lot, and quickly. But each time I learn more about how things work, and that coupled with the quick nature of it makes it very easy to fall into the "Just one more!" loop.

It's all a bit strange, a little creepy perhaps, and very engaging.

Near perfect top-down action with great looking enviroments and lots of satisfying desctruction and explosions.

Plays really well when you get used to the controls, but be warned a gamepad is pretty necessary. In addition controls can't be customized aside from changing between normal or tank mode for the type of directional movement.

You play different characters with unique abilites and unlock upgrades as you level them up. It even features Gordon Freeman as a character for some reason. Random ,but pretty cool driving around the buggy unleashing antlions heh. You can play with up to 4 players online or 2-player split screen even.

The story of the game is pretty dumb, but in a very over the top self aware way that makes it pretty damn funny. It would be nice if you could skip in-game dialog though. It can be funny but it ads unwelcome repetition to an otherwise very replayable game.

A few snags prefent this game from being a 10, but overall I can't recommend this game enough!

Usually water levels in games suck. So, I was quite surprised to find out a game that takes place entirely in water not only is better then suck, but ends up being the best game in its genre since Super Metroid.