Cheese Please

As far as titles go, Cheese Please certainly is apt. You play as Lola, a hungry little blue mouse who's desperate for cheese. So desperate, in fact, that she'll risk death and electrocution just for a nibble on a slice of Swiss.

Unfortunately for Lola, she appears to have got herself stuck in some sort of endless nightmare of cheese-hunting and death. Perhaps this is mouse hell. In order to get herself some delicious dairy she has to take part in gruelling tile puzzles.

She can only move one tile at a time, and as she does so spike traps rotate around the level. A nice slice might be right in front of her, but if she times her encroachment incorrectly she'll end up in a mouse trap.

Cheese Please is a very simple but rather taxing puzzler - one that belies its basic visuals with a need for long-term planning and strategy.

Simply ploughing your way through each grid to the end cheese (for want of a better term) will rarely prove fruitful. In fact, it almost always prove fatal. You'll have to go in and out, backwards and forwards, until you can map out a clear path to glory.

At first, it's all too confusing, befuddling, and frustrating. Soon, though, you'll start to see patterns and can read the rotation of the spiked traps. The game soon throws in other obstacles - conveyor belts, electricity traps, switches, but it never feels as overwhelming as those first few tries.

As you plough through Cheese Please's 60+ levels, things do start to get a little predictable. Remember those plastic tile puzzles from the '80s? This can feel like one of those at its worst, without the gratification of a picture of He-Man or Optimus Prime as a reward for completing it.

Getting stuck is a headache, and you'll spend far too long just plodding around in a circle wistfully staring at those cheese slices tantalisingly out of reach.

For a simple iOS puzzler, though, Cheese Please is a palatable little morsel that goes very well with a glass of wine.