Varius

Do you like color matching games? Those indie ones in which you have to match projectiles and colors in order to pop bubbles or destroy tiles? Well, you must love them if you want to approach to this indie game. The game is entirely keyboard-driven, and even the main menu can be navigated only with the directional keys - it's all quite retro. You can still play with a controller, though, but the mouse will be useless. There will be three main playing modes and they have a base in common - on the left of the screen there's a bar depicting the shuttle, the barrier and the shield; the core shuttle will be the thing you'll be able to move up and down. You'll face projectiles that will take the color of the chromatic bar in the right part of the screen - your shield will have to match those colors. The three modes are a survival one (just an endless form, basically), a shatter mode which will ask you to clear out all the blocks on the screen by reflecting the colored projectiles as said above and a sequence mode in which you'll be given some colors growing in number as you move on, and the projectiles will be black so you'll have to remember the color sequence (quite frustrating and bor…

[h1][i]...huge![/i][/h1] awesomely crafted little thing only tried a bit, already feeling mine fluid movements, very casual gameplay something new for a classic

varius is the sickest game I ever paid like 39 cent for

Varius is a retro-looking match the colour game with very simple, but engaging and often difficult gameplay. Basically you control a shuttle, sometimes two, by moving them up and down to deflect projectiles. Not only that, but you also have to change their colours to blue, yellow, red or green. The projectile’s colour and that of the shuttles need to match upon impact, otherwise your shuttle will shatter and you’ll lose. What makes it a little more challenging is that sometimes the projectile will have a different colour than those available to you because it has to bounce off of the barrier that your shuttle rests on. There are 3 game modes: Survive, which makes the projectile get progressively faster; Shatter, where your goal is to deflect the incoming projectile while also attempting to destroy the bricks; and Sequence, which requires you to remember the given sequence of colours. My personal favourite was Shatter. I could probably play that game mode for hours uninterrupted (and I will). Tactical efficiency/10.

The game is good. There's no story mode. I know the developer of it and he's really cool. He can operate a toaster when lives are on the line. He's good at games.

No "campaign/story mode". It's three mini-games: A time based one which increases difficulty the longer it goes (with no blocks) A 'Simon Says' style one (with no blocks) A random block layout (with only one life) And there's no mouse controls (though that may be a challenge considering the color swapping).