This is one of the darlings of the iPhone. A hugely popular little app that lots of people love and that gets frequent and meaningful updates. I wish I liked it more.

There’s a couple of islands where some pygmies live. You can kill them in initially-amusing ways, help them out with firewood and stuff, try to kill a lot of them at once to earn Achievements (using the cross-game Feint system) or, er, well, there doesn’t seem to be much more to do and for me it’s not enough.


It certainly looks nice. In that picture I’ve created a hurricane, which is throwing my little pygmy chaps around. It was fun, the first two or three times. But without any real consequences it just all feels a bit flat to me – I just don’t care about the little chaps. I should check for any Achievements I’ve not yet earned, but I don’t feel invested enough to even do that.

There is hope, though. The next update should see the first real, proper mini-game being added to the game. It should be the first of many. I’ll check out once it’s been updated, but I doubt I’ll play it again before then.