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World of Goo

2008 · Linux · Wii · Windows Phone · Android · PC (Microsoft Windows) · iOS · Puzzle · Simulator · Strategy

83IGDB player score
344 ratings

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An 83 average from its 344 true believers. A puzzle game that respects your brain — comedy, sandbox on the surface, real logic underneath. Best experienced alone, preferably with nowhere to be.

About this game

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. The millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo are curious to explore - but they don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious. Congratulations, and good luck!

Initially, pipes appear throughout the land, waking up many sleeping Goo Balls who have gone undisturbed until this, as they are filled with a childlike sense of curiosity and naivety they build themselves towards the pipes. Upon reaching the pipe entrance, the Goo Balls are sucked by the pipe system into the "World of Goo Corporation" main building where they are processed into many products, for example an energy drink. The excess Goo Balls are left outside the Corporation headquarters where they together begin to build a giant tower. At the end of the first chapter, some Goo Balls escape from a Corporation building by attaching themselves to eyeballs which have the ability to fly. The chapter ends with the Goo Balls "seeing far away new lands".

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Game facts

Release date

Oct 13, 2008

Developer

2D Boy

Publisher

2D Boy, Brighter Minds, Microsoft Game Studios, Tomorrow Corporation

Platforms

Linux, Wii, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch

Genres

Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Themes

Comedy, Sandbox

Game modes

Single player, Co-operative

Perspective

Side view

Critic score

87 / 100 (4 reviews)

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