1UP reviews PixelJunk Monsters: ‘incredibly addictive’

This review is eight days late, and the reason is critical in assessing PixelJunk Monsters: It’s a very challenging game. Despite its warm, accommodating art and character design and what’s ostensibly a one-button control scheme, making any sort of progress requires careful planning, plenty of improvisation, and relentless persistence. Though those qualities don’t sound inherently engaging on their own, the masterful balance and tuning behind every strategy element in play makes Monsters an incredibly addictive, satisfyingly hard-fought proposition that few games match as elegantly.