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The best of free Android gaming: Take Me Home

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The best of free Android gaming: Take Me Home
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It seems that The Incredible Machine-esque physics puzzlers are back in vogue, with titles like Apparatus not just riding high in the Android charts, but also in our hearts.

So a cute, free, and viciously hard riff on the formula sounds like a sure-fire winner. Welcome to Take Me Home.

Take Me Home puts you in charge of a small, happy, and (presumably) lost little blob, and tasks you with the simple job of getting him to the exit through trial and error.

You do this by placing objects around each level to boost him upward (or forward), bypassing obstacles like glass and venus blob traps, and catching a lift on various insects.

It’s stonkingly hard - like, really hard. If you sat back during The Incredible Machine or Apparatus and thought, “You know what I’d really like to see? Coins placed around each level that are practically impossible to collect and a vertical difficulty curve” then your wish has come true.

There is a little bit of a suspicion that the game is set up this way to encourage you to download other titles related to the download, which in true freemium style adds virtual ‘coins’ to your kitty (you can’t actually buy these coins with real money, though).

However, Take Me Home is worth your attention thanks to its excellent presentation and neat touches like allowing you to save the route you took for each level to the SD card.

It’s also not too bad, difficulty-wise, if you don’t have an overwhelming urge to collect every coin/star/thing strewn about a level in these sorts of games.

So as long as you're not me, then.

You can grab Take Me Home for free by following this link (download).

If you know of a free Android title that you feel should feature in The best of free Android gaming, then do email me at will.wilson [at] steelmedia.co.uk
Will Wilson
Will Wilson
Will's obsession with gaming started off with sketching Laser Squad levels on pads of paper, but recently grew into violently shouting "Tango Down!" at random strangers on the street. He now directs that positive energy into his writing (due in no small part to a binding court order).