Sex on the Floor

Shying away from the innuendo and suggestion of some other adult games, Sex on the Floor is guaranteed to grab the attention of anyone browsing the adult section of a WAP portal, even if it only results in a little chuckle at the title's pure brazen-ness rather than a purchase.

However, the adult mobile scene hasn't quite developed into the niche-aware areas of your average dirty video store. The images on offer here aren't of nubile, curvy females rubbing parts of themselves over various laminate and carpeted surfaces. Instead, you can look forward to the standard array of saucy, genitalia-free images that are the staple of the genre.

To heap another disappointment upon Sex on the Floor's lack of comic perversion, the images you can unlock aren't full-screen either, taking up about 60-75 per cent of the screen. Although the pics are clearly converted photos, every pixel is sacred in the land of pocket porn, and full-screen images in this kind of title would obviously have been a bonus.

In Sex on the Floor's defence, the arcade puzzle game that is your portal to unlocking the ladies is unusually good for an adult title. It plays a little like an isometric Pac-Man, where you have to destroy the tiles that are placed on each square of the maze that your controllable ball is stuck in. In each level, there are various other balls bouncing about the maze. Hit into one of these, and you lose a life.

So far, so bland, but Sex on the Floor manages to excel in the way it develops this core mechanic. As you move through the levels, the behaviour of both the tiles and the enemy balls changes.

Tiles that need two hits are introduced, followed by tiles that act like switches, continually disappearing and returning on subsequent hits. It's at this point that the game stops being a rudimentary process of avoidance, forcing you to strategise your movements. Add to this the enemy green balls that lay paths of new tiles as they bounce through the maze, and finishing a level becomes a real challenge.

Other balls include the purple ball, which can become aware of your presence and stalk you around the maze, and the common red ball, which ambles about more aimlessly. There are also a number of teleport squares in each level that only the stalking purple balls tend to use, so avoiding the balls never becomes too frustrating or difficult.

Indeed, play only gets genuinely difficult once you're some way into the game, by which point you'll already have unlocked a fair few saucy images (one is unlocked in the game gallery per level), so it isn't really at odds with the unlock-focused nature of the standard adult game. You can start from any played level, too.

In another nice feature, you actually see the picture revealed bit-by-bit as you destroy more tiles, as the picture forms the background of the level.

Sex on the Floor offers gameplay that easily surpasses that of most other adult titles, but, considering its basic adult nature, the slightly disappointing picture quality shouldn't be ignored completely. Also, if it's girls gyrating against carpet samples you're looking for, it probably hasn't escaped your notice that there are several more prolific places to look.