Mixt XHD

It's rare to find a puzzle game that does something even slightly different. If you want to perform an action other than match coloured blobs, then you've got some serious Android Market digging to do.

Alternatively, you could just give Mixt XHD a go. Sure, it still has coloured blobs, and there's matching going on as well, but it adds a few new ideas of its own to the mix.

Mixt XHD is a simple little puzzler that first saw the light of day on the iPhone a couple of years ago. The aforementioned blobs of colour drop down the screen, and you have to fling them into swirling, similarly coloured vortices.

The twist is, you need to mix the blobs together to make different colours, as well as breaking them apart to use their constituent hues. It's a clever little gameplay mechanic, and one that's simple enough to control with a single finger.

You swipe through a blob to break it apart, and move them around the screen with flicks and slides. Sometimes, however, the game doesn't quite understand your intentions, pushing when it should split and vice versa.

The game's neat enough to look at, if a little rough around the edges, and while it poses a decent challenge it slips into a repetitive routine a little too quickly to be considered a classic.

As a piece of quick hit, low maintenance puzzle gaming, Mixt XHD is perfectly adequate, but be warned: if you're buying the game for your Xperia Play you might end up a little disappointed.

The game only uses touchscreen controls, and the regular version, which costs less, works just as well on the Play.

Aside from that, it's a nice break from regular puzzlers. It's far from revolutionary, but it'll keep you entertained for a while.