$2.12 (−15%)Bouncing Body Bits
You are a freshly assembled face with no body and a dream. Bounce through a strange maze of rooms, grab loose arms and legs to run faster, jump midair and carry keys, then visit a clinic to lose the limbs that make you too wide for the door. Puzzles, chaos and one big question: which body is perfect?
Is Bouncing Body Bits worth it?
Bouncing Body Bits is worth it if…
- you enjoy puzzle platformers where the puzzle is your own body
- you like fast, silly games you can finish in a few short sessions
- you want something colorful and strange that does not take itself seriously
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Limbs are tools, and you are the toolbox
You start as a head and torso that can only slide and hop. Then an arm bounces past. Collide with it and it is yours, no questions asked. Legs make you faster, the more pairs the better. Arms let you jump again in midair and pick things up. The catch: every limb makes you bigger, and some doors are small. Too tall, too wide, no way through. The fix is a clinic, where a professional lops off whatever no longer serves you. Growing and shrinking yourself to fit each room is the whole game, and it is a good one.
A maze that keeps asking questions
The labyrinth is a string of rooms, each with doors shaped for a specific body and puzzles built around what you currently are. Do you keep the extra legs for speed, or trade them for the width the next doorway demands? The game never tells you which combination of limbs is the right one; figuring that out is the mystery at its center. It helps that the whole thing looks bright, cartoonish and a little dreamlike, with a main theme whose rhythm sticks in your head long after you stop playing. Weird, cheerful and trickier than it looks.
Do you need to play the first game?
Do you need to play the first game?
No. Bouncing Body Bits is a sequel to Falling Face Fragments, but the setup is simple enough that nothing is lost here: a face assembles itself and goes looking for a body. If you like this one, the first game is there when you want more of the same strange world.
Can you play it solo?
Yes, it is a singleplayer game. That suits it well, since the fun is in quietly working out which limbs to keep and which to have removed, and in the small satisfaction of finally squeezing the exact right body through an impossible door.
How hard is it?
Challenging, in a fair way. The puzzles are creative and some areas take real experimenting with your body part count before they click. If you like a puzzle platformer that makes you think instead of holding your hand, that difficulty is the point, and it never stops being charming about it.
