Reviews - Vargr

Osmos is the perfect combination of relaxed ambient atmosphere and challenging skill testing puzzles. While it starts of slow, the learning curve ramps up quickly for those hungry for challenge.

The game sports multiple level types, each of which posing a unique challenge and specific goal (such orbiting around a large cellular structure along with thousands of other cells), while keeping the main concept of the game straightforward: devour what is smaller than you, avoid what is larger. Though that truly isn't as easy as it sounds.

The biggest challenge in the game is mastering the core mechanic - the fact that in order to propel yourself forward, you must expel some of your mass behind you. This act not only makes you smaller, but has a chance of feeding the larger red enemies around you and making them even more difficult to surpass in size. This expulsion also allows you to move enemies (sometimes at painfully slow speeds in the more claustrophobic levels), which becomes a very important and tactical aspect of the game quite quickly.

The game itself is beautiful, the music is perfect, and the controls are perfectly suited for the gameplay. The only way to improve the game would be to add some procedurally generated "endless" mode which allows players to relax while playing, as the other game modes all become too difficult to play calmly.

This game is nothing short of amazing. It has everything a platformer should have, and then some.

This is one of those games that everyone should play at least once. Truly a masterpiece.

This game is beautiful. The artwork was breathtaking, the music was perfect, and the puzzles give nearly a perfect degree of challenge (though parts of the game are on the easy side). This brought me back to the old point-and-click adventure days, while still transporting me into the robot-ruled junkyard of Machinarium.

The length leaves you wanting more, though. It is not a long game (though a couple of the less obvious parts of the game may fill up some of that lack of length!)

Easily one of the deepest (pun intended) games I have ever played. The difficulty is absurd, it has the learning curve of a wall, but damn does it feel good when your dwarves strike valuable resources, or your lava trap works and wipes out invading goblins.
It definitely isn't a casual game, though, nor one for those who are all about graphics. It is to modern popular games as vim is to Word -- harder, more confusing, nearly arcane in comparison; but with a thousand times more potential, and if you put the time into learning it, you will be rewarded greatly.