The small team at Hemisphere has crafted an alluring, captivating experience that is a nice change of pace from the frantic action videogames often provide. It well deserves the Direct2Drive Vision Award it received at this year's Independent Game Festival (full disclosure: IGN owns Direct2Drive). Even though Osmos is relaxing, that doesn't mean you won't find a nice challenge. But even the early stages are nice to play around in, lazily swimming about and becoming the big fish in the pond. There is a long list of games Osmos bears something in common with: flOw, Asteroids, Katamari Damacy... But it emerges as its own thing, and definitely deserves a look.
Presentation - 8.5
Graphics - 8.5
Sound - 9.0
Gameplay - 8.5
Lasting Appeal - 8.0
Overall -
The new Humble Mozilla Bundle allows playing some great indie titles directly on your internet browser, besides the usual DMR-free and Steam ket versions.
John Bedford (Modojo): If you don't already own the fabulous Osmos for your iPhone or iPad, you can grab the game from the App Store today for a mere $0.99 on either device - that's down from the usual price of $4.99 on iPad and $2.99 on iPhone.
Actually not a terrible list but Cut the Rope at #1 is disappointing.
Games not on this list that absolutely deserve consideration:
9th Dawn
Pixel Defenders
Rico
World of Goo
Granny Smith
Walking Dead Assault
Blueprint 3D
Eufloria HD
Plasma Sky
Ravensword
Anomaly Korea
Waking Mars
Machinarium
Zen Pinball HD
