I was digging around and didn’t find any terribly new games worth playing, so I started googling for something I had never played before. What I found was Maggotz from MouseBreaker.com.

Maggotz is definately different than most games I’ve played online. It’s kind of a puzzle/survival game where you simply rotate a wheel that has holes in it, with the intent of keeping maggots away from a skull.

What starts out as an easy game quickly gets frantic as the maggotz attack with varying speeds, and orbs that alter the speed and direction your wheel rotates pop up to complicate things. I played it for about 5 minutes before I lost, and was overall satisfied with it, but I didn’t bother firing up another round.

The graphics are simple, but still nice to look at. The sound is very minimal, and is mostly ‘borrowed’ from Lemmings. For such a simple game, neither factor really makes or breaks the enjoyability of this title.

If you like survival type games you’ll probably enjoy this one, but if you are looking for something that’s going to be intense and have a lot of variety, I doubt you’ll play this more than once or twice.

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