Let Me Loose

Let Me Loose keeps you entertained throughout, but when you put it down you don't really remember anything about it. It's solidly put together, and full of perfectly pleasant ideas, but it won't make it onto any game of the year lists come December.

That's not to say you shouldn't give it a try. The few hours you'll spend in its company make for a perfectly passable puzzling experience, and you'll have a smile on your face when you finish some of the tougher challenges, but there's no long-lasting spark that's going to drag you back once you're done.

The game is all about leading a lab experiment to safety through a series of puzzle chambers. There are four sections, each of them based around a different theme. You control the little creature by tilting your phone or tablet left and right.

There are moveable platforms around the levels that you need to slide into place to get to the exit. Then there are the usual star-shaped things to try and collect. You'll need to grab all of them to get the best score on each of the levels.

As you go on you'll find different obstacles blocking your path, like electrified floors, gravity-altering buttons, and platforms that fire you upwards when you roll over them.

The mix of platforming and block-sliding gameplay is a reasonably pleasant one, but there are some frustrating moments in later levels when there are a lot of blocks to slide into place. One mistake here and you'll have to rearrange the entire level.

Thankfully these moments are few and far between and you'll usually be able to polish off a level in no more than a couple of attempts.

Let Me Loose is a decent-looking game, and some of the levels will have you furrowing your brow as you try and work out the best way to grab all the goodies and still make it to the exit alive.

But there's nothing here that really sets it apart from the other good-looking, well put together physics-puzzlers that populate every corner of the App Store. It's fun, and you'll smile while you're playing, but Let Me Loose is very much another link in an increasingly long chain.