King of Currywurst

It's an undeniable fact that some of the best games are born of ideas that come completely out of leftfield.

King of Currywurst, with its rather sausagey take on a Tetris style setup, is certainly that, but despite this admittedly intriguing setting it also happens to be a touch hard when you poke a fork in it.

In fact, it's comprehending the concept that provides most of the stiffness, rather than the game itself.

Silly sausages

Playing on a vertical grid, you control lumps of sausages as they fall from the top and stack up at the bottom. Your only input is to twist said lumps clockwise, the aim being to string each one together to form a whole sausage.

When correctly connected to another lump of sausage, the two turn brown, with the whole line disappearing if you manage to strap on two ends or twist it round to form a Cumberland style circle.

As you might expect, it's clearing the board that's your goal, with points racked up as a result and new bites falling from the top to take their place. It's a survival setup – at some point the puzzle becomes impossible, so lasting as long as you can is the key.

It's the knots that tie the sausages that cause the most problems, however.

Some of the sausage chunks you have to deal with are entirely made up of such knots, each one coming with a multitude of ends that can be attached to sausages aplenty.

While this means it's possible to clear whole sections of the board in one go if you manage to attach and seal off sausages on each end, doing so is an especially lengthy process and entirely reliant on the random layout of sausage pieces the game gives you with each go.

In short, play is actually a touch too sticky.

Take sausages out of the equation, and what's on offer here is a simple shape puzzle. The problem is, the knot pieces make lining up those shapes less of a challenge and more of a full on ordeal at times.

King of Currywurst certainly doesn't harm anyone as it is, but its especially short nature, lack of meaningful instructions, and the abundance of sausage knots gives play a slightly sour twist.