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Captain Bubblenaut

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Captain Bubblenaut is another in that ever-extending line of games that are all about tiny bite-sized blasts of highly condensed play. A single go lasts a scant handful of minutes, and you can control the action with a single finger.

It's an entertaining little time-waster, but unlike the best in the genre it doesn't have a strong enough hook to pull you in time after time, and after a few plays you'll find yourself hungering after something with a little more meat.

Blowing bubbles

The game is sort of like a minimalist Tiny Wings. You're an alien trying to kill as many humans as you can in order to invade the planet. To do this you control the ground, sliding it from side to side in order to catch the plummeting invader and swoop him from side to side.

Different humans have different hats and parcels, and these can damage you. You only have three lives, and once you've used them all up your invasion comes to an end and you find out whether your actions have pleased your alien father, who's a general in the alien army.

You hang around on each level for about 30 seconds, swooping around and bashing into humans, scoring points for each one you smash to bits. It's an enjoyable little arcade score-chaser for those first few swoops.

But after a while you'll start getting a little bored. The pixellated carnage is interesting enough, but it never really changes, save for adding more and more humans with pointy helmets and pointy boxes that can do you some damage.

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There's just not enough to really pull you into the world. With a few additions and a change in pace there could be a great game here, but instead there's a solid and unremarkable one.

Captain Bubblenaut isn't a bad game - it just lacks the spark that the very best have. You'll quite enjoy the time you spend with it, but given the standard and variety of the competition on the App Store, quite enjoyable isn't enough to earn a recommendation.

Captain Bubblenaut

A perfectly passable little waste of time, Captain Bubblenaut isn't bad, but it's not that good either
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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.