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Genre labels can be so hard to assign at times. Take Space Sloth, for instance. It's a meandering, inexplicable trek through the cosmos, where you lob burgers at spacemen. There's no real objective: you just keep flinging until your rocket blows up. So, 'endless... tosser' it is, then.

In each level, the titular slowcoach is shunted around a fixed, albeit randomly generated, path. All you need to do is focus on delivering burgers promptly and efficiently to the hungry astronauts drifting by. Land a hit, and you notch up a bunch of points and another satisfied customer.

Feed me, Seymour

Once you've reached the end of a stage, it's on to the next galaxy for more of the same, with hazards like black holes and mines being slowly introduced into proceedings.

Again, it's merely a case of lobbing another meaty morsel in the hazards' direction, disarming the threat before it can knock a chunk off your health and bring your game to a premature end.

There's actually quite a lot to like about Star Sloth. It's got a fairly unique core game mechanic, and it's appealingly presented, with a slick, quirky visual style that perfectly matches its lo-fi soundtrack.

There's an engagingly daffy sense of humour on display, too. For instance, you can toggle pointlessly between meat-based goods and veggie burgers in the main menu.

Undernourished

Star Sloth's biggest problem - and it's a massive one -though, is that its basic drag-and-fling setup grows old fast. It's the only form of interaction in the game, and even when things become more chaotic later on, you're just drag-drag-dragging over and over. Combine this mindless busy work with Star Sloth's thoroughly pedestrian pace and it soon becomes a chore.

There's some opportunity to replay the game, thanks to its in-house store - offering up access to new galaxies (although these are largely cosmetic upgrades) and a smattering of customisation options - but it still doesn't inject enough life into the game's fundamentally repetitive core.

Ultimately, Star Sloth's intergalactic delivery service might satisfy you for a couple of minutes, but it won't be long before you're yearning for a proper meal.

Star Sloth

A quirky, intriguing endless-floater that's simply far too shallow to captivate for long
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Matt Wales
Matt Wales
Following a lifetime of adventure on the high seas, swabbing the editorial decks of the good ship IGN and singing freelance shanties across far-flung corners of the gaming press, Matt hung up his pirate hat and turned his surf-seared gaze toward the murky mysteries of the handheld gaming world. He lives to sound the siren on the best mobile games out there, and he can't wait to get kraken.