Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (v2.1.0.3)

An angry extraterrestrial blob turns a 1950s sci-fi nightmare on its head, escaping a laboratory and consuming its way through humanity’s cheerful retro-futurist world. Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a comic 2D puzzle-platformer built around a satisfyingly absurd escalation from snack-sized captive to a threat that can swallow whole city blocks. Its bright cartoon art, B-movie laboratories, and gleefully destructive mood keep the apocalypse playful rather than grim, making every new environmental object look like potential lunch.

You guide the blob through side-scrolling stages, eating anything small enough to fit before growing large enough to consume the obstacles that once blocked the route. Movement involves more than simply rolling forward: the creature jumps, launches itself with rocket power, slams through fragile structures, and manipulates objects to solve physics-based puzzles. New powers such as magnetism and telekinesis open up alternate ways to shift machinery, cross hazards, and reach food hidden around each level. The main campaign includes 24 stages with changing themes and scale, while five top-down bonus levels offer a different perspective and a sharper focus on score-chasing.

What makes the adventure work is how clearly its level design sells the blob’s growth; a soda can feels significant early on, then becomes meaningless once trains and buildings enter the menu. The controls are approachable, but optional collectibles, hidden routes, achievements, and online leaderboards give completionists reasons to replay stages and improve their runs. It shares the light physics-puzzle spirit of Katamari Damacy, although its platforming structure and old-school monster-movie presentation give it a character of its own. Fans of compact, inventive platformers with a humorous destructive streak will find plenty to enjoy, and newcomers can comfortably pick it up without needing genre expertise.