Splash Bomb

If logical thinking and puzzle solving are things that you really do love to do with your spare time, then I’d certainly recommend Splash Bomb.

To be honest I wasn’t sure what to expect from the title and I had initially been expecting a fun game which involved splashing people with water bombs. So you can imagine the surprise after loading the game when I was confronted with a 6x6 grid with various red puddles on it. Nothing like what I’d imagined but certainly I was intrigued – and I’m glad I started to play.

This game consists of having a number of red puddles of various sizes located around the grid. Armed with an imaginary pipette, you have a limited number of drops of ‘liquid’ which you can use to increase the puddle in the chosen square. After the puddle gets to a certain size (and shape) it only needs one more drop to then burst and spread more drops to the next possible adjacent puddles in all four directions (up, down, left and right). The idea of which is to figure out which puddles you need to help fill up (and burst) in a logical sequence to then burst all the puddles and indeed clear the level.

As you may have already imagined, every level you go up gets a little more tricky but you do get rewarded for your efforts by having an extra drop of liquid to help replenish your stock. Only getting one extra drop per level provides limited comfort – particularly as many levels will require more than one to be used to clear. However, for managing to get a sequence of puddles to burst in a combo, you’ll get yourself more drops as your reward – making it far easier to clear levels.

If there’s anything bad to say about the game it’d have to be that there’s no tutorial mode and no different settings in terms of difficulty.

Whenever your game ends you are given the choice to save your score and also upload it to see how your score competes with other Splash Bomb players in the world. This adds to the competitiveness of the game and indeed raises the game higher in terms of its addictiveness.

If it was possible for this game to have a help or hint option, then this would have been really useful at trying to learn how to improve your game, however, it’s still pretty good at learning through trial and error and with a virtually limitless number of possibilities and sequences to play and chain reactions to try to work out, this game offers superb value for money and plenty of entertainment.

Rating 80%

Positive

Cute graphics

Very good to keep your brain cells going

Good to kill a few minutes with

Quite therapeutic

Negatives

Repetitive

No help or hints to improve your game techniques

No alternative difficulty settings or variation e.g. barriers, different size/shaped grids