Gluey

If someone was looking over your shoulder while you played Gluey, they'd likely think you were engaging in yet another colour-matching, substance-bursting puzzler. And they'd be right.

Gluey's central premise is all about popping matched-up coloured blobs and clearing space for more coloured blobs to flob down onto the screen, ready to be cleared like their fallen blobby brethren.

It throws in some physics, a few neat ideas of its own, and a decent stack of levels to chomp through, but in the end you can't help but feel you've seen it all before.

The game is all about congealing blobs of colour. When two or more blobs of the same hue are next to one another, they join together, and gain a pair of vaguely sinister black eyes. Tap on this super-blob and it disappears.

There are three different modes to work your way through. Puzzle gives you a shape filled with blobs, and tasks you with scoring a set number of points before they're all gone.

Strategy sees every tap letting more blobs in from the top of the screen. Survival is all about keeping the blobs below a set line for as long as you can.

As you play, extra hazards and powers are added. A blob containing a bomb will explode when you tap it, but a blob containing a vial of poison will end the game if you accidentally clear it.

Then there are blobs that change colour, blobs that don't move unless you destroy them, and vats of acid waiting to devour all of your blobs if you're not paying enough attention.

There are some pretty severe difficulty spikes - especially in Puzzle mode, which gets very cruel, very fast. And while most of the levels are pretty well designed some are too easy, or far too difficult.

Gluey isn't the fresh twist on the match-some puzzler that it wants to be, but it's still an entertaining ride. The highlight is Strategy mode, which often adds a level of frantic desperation that's missing in the rest of the game.

It's a little rough around the edges, but there's enough here for puzzle fans to enjoy.