Stubies Review – The rainbow minions attack!

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By: Creatiu Lab

Version #: 1.0.1

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Developer: Stubies Support

Price: $0.99

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We always cherish those lighter moments in life. For that, most people like to take a hot bath, watch a movie or listen to their favourite genre. And for others, there are games like Stubies.

A peek at the screenshots or the first few moments with this indie game might give you the impression of a childish or immature game, which may be due to its sub-threshold resemblance to the Teletubbies show in looks or even the name. But you’ll soon enough taste the sourness of the puzzling gameplay masked within. In this Candy Crushed and Bejewelled era, no-one would’ve thought that matching just twos would be such a challenge.

Here, you have a “checkerboarded” field which is perpetually being invaded by teeny tiny chromatic minions, called Stubies of course, from all sides. Swipe across on these self-moving bots to change their directions and let two like-coloured ones meet to make them go ‘poof’. Double tap and he’ll dig deep into a burrow or swipe along for gaining some acceleration. All you need is a good sense of timing and you can keep scoring.

The aim of each level is to reach the given target number of popped Stubies. But as you proceed from Blue to Orange levels across the spectrum, things get tight and maintaining a rainbow crowd of haphazard bots doesn’t seem easy anymore. Suddenly, a pair of eyes and the ten-point multi-touch screen isn’t good enough! You start squinting your eyes and pulling up your feet just for an extra finger on the screen. Pits to the oblivion and falling down the edge of the Earth starts to threaten your stars. Apparently, a blue and a green minion doesn’t collide into a Cyan one (damn you Physics!), but instead gets petrified into an obstructive pillar. Fear not, for Rambo minions capable of floating, drilling and bombing are here to help. Multicoloured Joker Stubies and colour coded gift boxes pitch in too.

Stubies is bright, colourful and 3D. Starting from the responsive infinite-board interface and comprehensive popup tutorials, till the cute x-eyed “Ouch!” Game over screens, Stubies gives a pleasurable time. I wouldn’t use the term addictive here (although the game is having a crush in many app stores,) but its undoubtedly fun. Ear-wise, the tap-dancish bagpiper background score is a perfect pair to the constant tap and swipe gameplay. However we din’t like the in-app store for reviving the minions, as it seems to steal a piece of challenge from the game. Making the game free or removing the in-app store might restore our faith in gaming Gods.

Stubies was featured by Apple during the week of release and we couldn’t help but agree with the Cupertino editors on that. It was among the Top 10 games in over 50 countries too. It is comforting to know that good indie games like Stubies are still making an impact on the App Store. We’ll soon be interviewing the guys behind the app. So stay tuned!