The Maw

very cool game

man, i am so sad to not recommend this. but it has a few issues. first i want to say that i love this game, it is so cute and goofy. you play as an alien girl who gets captured and team up with a little blob/slime with teeth to get free as you go around and do little things and puzzles to feed your blob to make it bigger, to help you more. gameplay is very simple. you bring your blob around to feed him the creatures of the area. you can grab things, throw them, or feed your blob without him being near you. the puzzles come from finding hidden special bugs and trying to 100% each area, by feeding everything to your blob. the music is cute and goofy and it just brings a super light hearted feeling to the game. the story, i wish i could tell you, but this is where the problems are coming up enough for me to just drop playing. the problems of this game, i think are tied to framerate. and while putting the game into compatibility mode eases the issues, but doesn't solve the problem, unfortunately. most of the problems are that physics freak out such as hooking onto things to fly around has you sling shotting around. throwing things to feed your blob has a 50% chance of ac…

I played this game a ton on the Xbox 360. I randomly thought about it recently and found it on steam. I really love this game, i love maw, calling for maw is ingrained into my mind.

100% The Maw on 4/11/2022. This is a classic Xbox Arcade game and is essentially an Eat-and-Grow game; however, this game does have a level structure with a fixed size to achieve per level. There are various upgrades that modify gameplay and a story to keep you engaged. Become a friend of Maw and help him NOT destroy humanity while trying to escape your captors. Nostalgia worked quite well for me. I got all achievements on the Xbox 360 and I was definitely going to do it again on steam.

The Maw is a pretty short and charming platformer game with puzzles, but with a handful flaws. I really like the animations and the concept, feeding a little monster and getting them powered up by the things they eat is pretty interesting! Although it's also quite bizarre, considering we help Maw to extinct entire species and eventually devour an entire planet lmao. Not all of the power ups are fun to use unfortunately, and some more variety was really needed. Still, I had a fair amount of fun with the balloon and the beetle powers, which actually add interesting movement to the gameplay. The stages aren't the most clever and can feel very repetitive, the fact that our character walks so slow and has such a pathetic jump doesn't help at all. With bad platforming and camera controls, this game is really hard to recommend nowadays, but I still think it's quite alright and well suited for younger audiences if you really don't have another option, since you can't even die or lose in this game.

I loved this game as a casual break from more story or combat intense games. it's simple its not super long. Just eat stuff and grow. Give this a shot if your looking for a short, casual, game.